Primordial Soup

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” We all…

The Body Prophet

As I lay in bed this morning reflecting on all the beautiful seedlings that I had moved from the nursery…

Published in Gods & Radicals Press: This pandemic isn’t a random mutation of Nature. It’s a living product of imperial…

When Shakespeare’s Hamlet asks to be or not be it is as part of a drama about the entanglement between…

In a posthumous essay David Graeber opens: “At some point in the next few months, the crisis will be declared…

Published in Worldwide Waste: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. This paper investigates why the culling of corvids in Northern Cyprus continues…

What is a demon if not the shared manifestation of a community’s creative intersubjectivity. Take Hobbe’s Leviathan. It is not…

Published at Mutual Interest Media. This was written before testing became more widely available in the UK when it mattered…

Published in Human Ecology “Culling, the killing of non-human animals, is practiced worldwide as a form of population control and…

“The war on invasive species is a distraction from genuine ecological change, through spending our time and money on ‘carrying…

A species is often taken to be an objective thing in the world. It’s not. It’s a concept about the…

A good friend and citizen of Australia showed me the enormous size of his ballot over the weekend. In Australia…

I wrote a recent post on how imagination is key to how we act in the world inspired by The…

“The events in Ottawa and at various points along the US-Canada border are setting the stage for a liberal, pro-police,…

“A tree is not a forest. On its own, a tree cannot establish a consistent local climate. It is at…

“The development of a safe, effective and cheap vaccine, however, is only a first step towards community-wide control. Epidemiological, economic…