Recent news from the Raiazome forefront.

2012-01-11

In response to NDAA, SOPA, and several decades of increasingly dramatic, draconian, and demoralizing militarization in the United States, I‘ve begun voluntarily self-censoring Raiazome of all reference to real-world friends, family, and hitherto acquaintances. Due to limited (time, mostly) resources, this dubious “project” is unlikely to complete for several months.

Additionally, I am considering permanently shifting Raiazome onto the darknet – to preserve it into joyful perpetuity, as only anonymity affords.

Meanwhile, enjoy the same Raiazome you’ve come to know and sow thoughtful idea-balls through.

2011-02-19

Hearth Grove, my partner, and I are diligently proud to present a Drupal-fueled wikilike, highly likable commemorative website for her first nonfiction novel, Life as Energy: Opening the Mind to a New Science of Life. Also purchasable via our reputable British kinsmen at Amazon U.K., Life as Energy chronicles the grassroots emergence of integrative science, deep ecology, and permaculture as premature easements against… that’s right, you easily guessed it: ongoing civilizational collapse.

I might be highly biased, but I can’t praise this effortless book enough. Dare you buy at least three copies for unwary friends and scientifically lonesome coworkers?

2009-09-10

To blight the four month anniversary with new bursaries of news, this burst of climatology-convolved literature constitute bitterly fantastic caustics on the failure of reductionism — which is, of course, for having uplifted reductionism as the opiate of progress, the failure of us all:

• Adam D. Sacks’ The Fallacy of Climate Activism, an angular paper on (as that title suggests) climate activism’s largess and largest error.
• Alexander Zaitchik’s The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive, a phenomenal summation of Lovelock‘s work and the stark failure of reductionism.
  

2009-05-10

To inaugurate this page, one speech, one paper, and two blog posts:

• David Foster Wallace‘s This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, a fantastic speech on the nature of intention in the mall-sutured byways of modern-day America.
• The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics‘s Overcoming Systemic Roadblocks to Sustainability: The Evolutionary Redesign of Worldviews, Institutions, and Technologies, a recent paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — and, despite that, readable, workable, and wonderful.
• Sess’ May 8th, 2009 blog post — including Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (2001) and immanency of a British natural gas crisis (2009—).
• Sess’ April 29th, 2009 blog post — including Elle Magazine gloss-injected anarchism and the decadent state of online Flash gamin’.

Also: for Oddmuse aficionados, Sess recently refactored the Oddmuse Footnotes module. ^{Leech it, baby; leech it.}