The Therapeutic Imagination
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The Therapeutic Imagination

The Therapeutic imagination is patiently attentive: it encourages us to take time to attend to what is taking place in order to take careful and caring action with respect to what is taking place.

The Therapeutic imagination knows no superheroes but the most under-appreciated healers of the victims and vehicles of evil.

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Denigration & Dispossession
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Denigration & Dispossession

Breaking with my dependence on Marxist language and theory by jettisoning the sorry Marxist concept and turn of phrase “primitive accumulation” and, instead, thinking with and through the phrase and concept of “accumulation by denigration and dispossession”.

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U.S. Militarism
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U.S. Militarism

Everyone struggling against global apartheid and planetary ecocide today knows that the most reprehensible of villains today are U.S. militarists and the global military-industrial-academic complexes that both feed U.S. militarism and feast on it 

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The Fetishes of Empire
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The Fetishes of Empire

Few recognize and fewer are brave enough to teach others that the maintenance and advancement of imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy has not been driven by profit but by pleasure seeking, toxic masculine pleasure seeking.

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On Violence
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On Violence

Marking the distinction between brutal acts of violence and considerate acts of violence, between the violence enacted by oppressors and oppressive regimes and the violence enacted by freedom fighters and liberation movements.

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Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Ecology
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Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Ecology

The global ecology movement can only become a force for radical change today by deferring to the victims of modern colonialism and racism, especially the indigenous peoples whose homelands were stolen from them and the black peoples who were stolen from their homelands during the formation of the modern world system.

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Who Goes Anti-Colonial?
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Who Goes Anti-Colonial?

It is an interesting and radical parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go anti-colonial and what sort of showdown would trigger them to do so.

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Profound Silences
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Profound Silences

Any and every story that enables us to make sense of modern European colonialism and imperialism must feature an increasing number of indescribable horrors.

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Running Thoughts on Trauma
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Running Thoughts on Trauma

The way to get peoples to affirm an ideological or mythical reason for denying care to themselves and others is to (i) traumatize peoples in some way shape or form, (ii) allow their traumas to fester unresolved for an extended duration, and then (iii) play upon their traumas.

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The Great Derangement
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The Great Derangement

We must all be traumatized if we are able to rationalize a way of life that allows us to disregard the fact that wildlife populations on Earth have plummeted by more than two-thirds in the past half-century and to disregard the fact that half of the languages on Earth are likely to disappear over the course of the next century.

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Three Freedoms
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Three Freedoms

Reading Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything in order to frame the question, “What can we do in our time, the present, to (re-)construct a world in which imperialist power formations are historical curiosities and the freedoms to disobey, to migrate, and to (de-/re-)construct worlds are decisive?”

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Proxies and Redeemers
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Proxies and Redeemers

Let us (re-)create ways of living otherwise than becoming proxies for power, otherwise than becoming redeemers for power, otherwise than becoming redeemers for power's redeemers, otherwise than becoming common victims of power, and otherwise than forming rival powers that can compete for supremacy.

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Late Davosian Holocausts
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Late Davosian Holocausts

The latest report from the IPCC betrays the fact that incipient “Late Davosian Holocausts” are poised to do by way of neocolonialism what the “Late Victorian Holocausts” did by way of colonialism, marking a new inflection point in the history of the havoc wreaked by imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

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Ecoregionalism
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Ecoregionalism

This week, the nation of Russia attacked the nation of Ukraine in what is widely and rightly being regarded as a brazen act of nationalist imperialism. The liberal news media in the West has tended to criticize Russia’s actions in the name of the sovereignty of the nation of Ukraine, taking the inviolability of sovereign national territories for granted.

In this dispatch, I propose that we criticize acts of nationalist imperialism otherwise than affirming the inviolability of sovereign national territories. In brief, I propose that we criticize acts of nationalist imperialism by affirming nations’ shared concern for ecoregions and by affirming more or less permeable ecoregional boundaries.

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