@eevakheev.bsky.social
JS Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver. Author, Shadowing the Anthropocene; Ecologies of the Moving Image; et al. Co-edit Media+Environment. Blog at Immanence (blog.uvm.edu/immanence) & UKR-TAZ (blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv-ukrtaz)
Just a quick reminder this afternoon that no one has ever invaded a country or taken their leader hostage to steal their solar panels. Added bonus: a solar spill? Just a sunny day.
The eleven books you should read to be up on the conjoined ecological and cultural challenges of coming years... terrestrialism.substack.com/p/books-of-t...
Taking over Venezuela is not about drugs or democracy, but about four other things. And it marks a "new world order" that is just the final flaring up of a monstrously metastasized old one.
terrestrialism.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
A manifesto-in-progress that argues for a Pause on AI accompanied by a Push for the energy infrastructure that might make AI affordable. It currently isn't. terrestrialism.substack.com/p/for-an-eco...
From the forthcoming album "Disambient 1: Music for Air Raids," inspired by Ukrainian resistance to Russian air terror. adrianivakhiv.bandcamp.com/track/music-...
Join us tomorrow (12 noon Pacific time, UTC/GMT-7:00) for a webinar on Indigenous Survivance & Resurgence, Traditional Knowledge, & the Arts, with Jeff Corntassel, Cease Wyss, and Eglée Zent
events.sfu.ca/event/45175-...
The New Lives of Images is out! In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. #ReadUP
https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/new-lives-images
The #infowar on #Canada is ramping up. #Canadians need to urgently update their #medialiteracy in time for their April 28 #federal_election. Here's one way to do that. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
A longer-term reply to Trump's tariffs... beyond national sovereignty to ecological sovereignty... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...
Where we are now, and where we should be heading instead... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...
„It’s wild that the American VP is criticizing European countries for stifling freedom of speech.
In the Press Freedom Index, the US ranks 55th, while Sweden is 3rd and Germany 10th.
Russia, meanwhile, sits at 162.“
Pekka Kallioniemi
Join us one week from today @westernu.bsky.social @westernuhistory.bsky.social @westernpolsci, @waschukcan.bsky.social @matthewlebo.bsky.social @AdamHarmes, & yours truly
There’s a lesson in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that until recently was seen as the paragon of stability and prosperity. That lesson is that we are all dispensable now. shorturl.at/dXUk5
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It's not just weather. Work with foreign nationals is a BIG part of what NOAA does - from climate negotiations (UNFCC, IPCC, Montreal Protocol), ocean (biodiversity conservation, fisheries, species protections), to space (satellites, space launches, etc.).
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
this is just the dumbest possible way for an empire to collapse
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
The beginnings of a resource guide for what's happening in the US... "Now is not a time for meekly tut-tutting our disapproval -- or for shouting “coup!” and “fascism!” without the necessary analysis. What we do need is Aikido- or Jujitsu-style redirections of their energy."
shorturl.at/PskYh
And for what?
If you have been unable to keep up with Trump's destruction of democracy and the US government in the last two weeks, here is a summary (with citations) by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs. Justin Trudeau's best speech.
Canada will place 25% tariffs on $155 billion in US imports in retaliation for Trump tariffs. That is an addition to a nationwide boycott on all US products across Canada. #cdnpoli #tariffwar
Just sayin’
wow...
"the Disinformation Machine...facilitates the abuse of power by distracting attention away from actual political conspiracies, the ongoing abuses and machinations of corrupt, powerful people..." @brianklaas.bsky.social on what Musk has wrought. Terrifying. 1/2
But Caldwell's argument is that democracy is succeeding, and that the Trumps & Le Pens of the world are perfect examples of that. As a Claremont Review conservative, he's probably happy about that, and is writing these NYTimes pieces to troll its left-liberal readership.
