@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-01 20:25:52
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-01 20:25:52
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social2025-12-01 11:25:34
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has outlined her political philosophy in this book whose first edition appeared last year. She argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-25 14:18:17
“Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-10-24 17:09:14
I "interviewed" ChatGPT about its pretensions to consciousness about six days ago and I posted it as a blog entry. ChatGPT waxes nicely philosophical and, yowza, agrees "wholeheartedly" with my premise that Musk's wacko insistence that his Grok AI emulate the political persuasions of his own scurvy brain is Bad Seed stuff. Have a look if you want.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-25 08:20:06
Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
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