Timo Zandstra
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Timo Zandstra
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
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November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.
October 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Episode 12 of Law at the End of the World is out, featuring the fabulous @emilyjones.bsky.social

Bouncing off Liz’s chat with Emily,
@prof-mac.bsky.social and I talk about how academics can contribute to positive transformative change, especially within environmental law.
Challenging the foundations of environmental law - Episode 12 (with Emily Jones) - Law at the End of the World
In this episode we are joined by critical environmental law scholar Emily Jones to explore the intersections of environmental law, feminism, and academia. Emily discusses her personal journey into aca...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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HELIOTROPE CfP: "We invite a wide range of submissions from anyone who studies topics at the intersection of culture, media, technology, and the environment. We consider “the environment” to be everything – from the molecular to outer space — i.e. not just the wilderness!"
Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes
Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE
www.heliotropejournal.net
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...
Epistemic Apartheid
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September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Looking forward to this (assuming they let me in)!

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September 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Alyssa Battistoni in conversation
On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with contributor Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, out now from Princeton University Press.
www.nplusonemag.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?

AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.

verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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As always, important insights by Adam Shatz.
Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including

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pja-verein.de

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August 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the ⛰️ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."
The Curse of Carrara Marble — The Dial
The luxury stone is being mined at the expense of the region and its people.
www.thedial.world
August 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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“Some don’t speak,” she told me. “They stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.” Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma
In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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"A Right Foundational to Humanity’s Existence" 🌱

DAVID R. BOYD (@drdavidboyd.bsky.social‬), former UN Special Rapporteur, on the role of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change.

verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM