From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 19:43:32 EDT
> M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it! > > _____________________________________ 10 May 2007_ > > > > MUTE VOL 2 #5 SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE MAY '07 > > It's Not Easy Being Green - The Climate Change Issue is out now online > and in print: > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-Vol-2-5-Its-Not-Easy-Being-Green-The-Climat e-Change-Issue> > > > This issue of Mute seeks to defuse the ideological bomb of climate > change, expose the plundering and non-reproduction of global resources > as a problem of capital not mankind per se, and investigate the ends to > which the spectre of eco-catastrophe is being used > > Articles include: > > * > > Capital Climes > > by Will Barnes > > Liberal critics assume that climate change is a 'man-made' process, not > a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global > warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it - not nature but capital > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Capital-Climes> > > * > > Act Macro: Technological Alternatives to Green Austerity > > By James Woudhuysen > > The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting > technology and behaviour - particularly other nation-states' - to > mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social > innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Act-Macro-Technological-Alternatives-to-Green-Au sterity> > > > > * > > Climate Change CO2lonialism > > By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young > > In their tango with grassroots green activists, inter-governmental > policy makers are taking the lead. Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young analyse the > 'new green order' and the carbon offset colonialism that accompanies it > >< http://www.metamute.org/en/Climate-Change-CO2lonialism> > > * > > Promised Lands > > By Kate Rich > > It's not just the founders of hippy communes or artists like Amy Balkin > who are looking for 'a breathing space from the State' in which to > experiment with freedom and free-time. Big IT companies like Google > apparently share their ideals. With a commitment to 'me time', the > production of 'universal access', and (energy) sovereignty, corporates > are leveraging the dream of the commons > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Promised-Lands-Google-and-Morningstar> > > > * > > Apocalypse and/or Business as Usual? The Energy Debate After the 2004 US > Presidential Elections > > By George Caffentzis > > Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush's republican party has turned curiously > green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal > imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America's > unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an 'anti-neoliberal' class of > oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots > the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to > ecowarrior > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Apocalypse-and-or-Business-as-Usual.-The-Energy- Debate-After-the-2004-US-Presidential-Elections> > > * > > Heavy Opera > > By Anthony Iles > > John Jordan and James Hewitt's operatic audio tour set in London's > Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of > financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London > Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also > harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order. Review by Anthony Iles > >< http://www.metamute.org/en/Heavy-Opera> > > * > > BPerkeley Inc.? > > By Iain A. Boal > > As a lead in to Mute's climate change special issue, Iain Boal reports > on BP's recent biofuel deal with University of California, Berkeley. In > the name of a planetary emergency, the oil behemoth has both managed to > greenwash biotech research and further entrench campus capitalism > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/BPerkeley-Inc> > > * > > Also in this issue... > > > Zombie Nation > > By Paul Helliwell > > As the scarcity essential to the cultural commodity is undermined by > digital abundance and social networking, social relations and the unique > 'live' performance are all that's left to sell. Mass market music > increasingly resembles relational art with its dream of waking the > 'zombies' of consumer culture, but are the citizens of Web 2.0 society > born again or undead? Paul Helliwell shuffles through the mall... > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Zombie-Nation> > > * > > Expropriate, Accumulate, Financialise > > By Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez > > David Harvey is an influential academic theorist of the spatial, > cultural and economic forms of neoliberal capitalism. Chris Wright and > Samantha Alvarez contrast his analysis with that of Michael Hudson, > whose Super Imperialism exposed the fiscal foundations of neoliberalism > some 30 years earlier > > <http://www.metamute.org/en/Expropriate-accumulate-financialise> > > * > > Further articles and reviews, already announced, are by Anthony Davies, > Howard Slater and Peter Suchin > > * > > SUBSCRIBE HERE: > <http://www.metamute.org/taxonomy/term/3480> > > FOR A LIST OF STOCKISTS: > <http://www.metamute.org/node/254>
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