Population, Resources, and Technology: Political Implications of the Environmental Crisis

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazli Choucri ◽  
James P. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Popu Lation ◽  
World Today ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Exponential Rates

Virtually eveyone reconizes the existence on an environmental crisis in the world today, but may uncertianties remain concerning the precise nature of this cirsis and its domestic and interational implications. This much is clear: The world's popu;lation is continuing to grow at an alarming pace; finite resources are being utilized at exponential rates; and technological advances are contributing to negative ecological outcomes. These trends have been documented extensively. Their political significance, however, has received little attention if only because the visibility of the problem is such a recent phenomenon. This article is addressed to some of the political consequences and international implications of the environmental crisis.

An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy on Literature, Philosophy and the Present

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 355-366
Author(s):  
Artur R. Boelderl
Keyword(s):  
Easter Island ◽  
The Political ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
World Today ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After

‘We are before Dante’: In this interview, held via email in March 2020 amid the massive outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jean-Luc Nancy leads us on a brief but far-reaching foray through his thought. He succeeds in providing an overview of the subjects that he has raised since the beginning of his career as a philosopher, while maintaining a focus on their pertinence for what we are currently facing in the world today. He supplements his insight that ‘we are before Dante’ with the equally remarkable conclusion: ‘Desire is what is born par excellence’. In between these two propositions, and in between the lines and words documented here – touching upon topics as diverse as the moai statues of Easter Island, the music of Schumann, Wagner, and techno, as well as the writing of Artaud, Proust, and Verlaine – we find an exciting, up-to-date treatment of the question of how to ‘deal with the world intellectually’ (Musil) without, in doing so, participating in the modern claim to ‘master’ it. Instead, Nancy suggests, we ought to be attentive to what escapes us by its very principle, with philosophy, literature, and art serving as witnesses of what has always been absent from our mind, that is, the sensibility of meaning, in order to become aware that, since we are always already before and after birth, ‘we come from nowhere and everywhere’. This realization enables us to understand the political consequences that it has for our understanding of a world in metamorphosis, including for highly controversial issues such as colonialism, anti-Semitism, the far right, neo-liberalism, and other totalitarian forms that supposedly manifest a return of the myth, as well as its consequences for the insurmountability of Marx(ism).

The Attempt on Hitler’s Life and its Consequences

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Neumann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Industrial Leadership ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Heinrich Himmler ◽  
Political Character

This chapter examines the political implications of the latest attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in relation to German morale at the time of the report. It first considers some of the principles for the evaluation of German morale: for example, the ruling group in Nazi Germany was made up of four segments: Nazi Party hierarchy, Armed Forces leadership, industrial and financial leaders, and high civil servants. In addition, in the course of World War II, the political power of the industrial leadership and of the civil servants had diminished to such a degree that they could assert themselves only by attempting to influence either Party or Army. The chapter proceeds by linking the timing of the attempt on Hitler's life to the impending transfer of the Home Army to Heinrich Himmler. It also analyzes the political character of the group behind the conspiracy to kill Hitler before concluding with a discussion of the political consequences of the failed assassination attempt.

scholarly journals The Geopolitics of Decadence

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-620
Author(s):  
Regenia Gagnier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The conditions of rapid change and modernization that swept the world from the second half of the nineteenth century enforced the new nationalisms, imperialisms, racisms, anti-Semitisms, and, more positively, sexualities that are again sweeping the world today. The longue durée of modern globalization that began with British industrialization continues with our contemporary forms of technological expansion, international competition, populist disaffection, and accompanying forms of stress, anxiety, depression, nostalgia, regression: decadence. This essay will focus on the political-economic conditions of the period and the cosmopolitanism and progressivism that resisted, and continue to resist, them. I conclude with the classic Japanese analysis of the condition, Kobayashi Hideo's “Literature of the Lost Home” (1933).

scholarly journals Difference Relates: Allegory, Ideology, and the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Carolyn Lesjak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Unconscious ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

Abstract Fredric Jameson’s recent book, Allegory and Ideology, argues that allegory has become a ‘social symptom’, an attempt during moments of historical crisis to represent reality even as that reality, rife with contradictory levels, eludes representation. Mobilising the fourfold medieval system of allegory he first introduced in The Political Unconscious, Jameson traces a formal history of attempts to come to terms with the ‘multiplicities’ and incommensurable levels that emerge within modernity and postmodernity. This article identifies the complexities of Jameson’s understanding of allegory and draws on the brief moments when Jameson references the Anthropocene to argue for an allegorical reading of our contemporary environmental crisis that would allow us to see the problem the Anthropocene names as truly contradictory: at one and the same time, the world we inhabit appears to us as a world of our own making and as a world that has become truly alien to us.

scholarly journals Political Implications of Philosophical Pedagogy.

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Maria Kultaieva
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

The article proposes the critical analyses of the P. Mehring conception of philosophical pedagogy founded on the German idealism and Humboldt’s philosophy of education.   Transformations of the philosophical pedagogy are considering on the background of organizing changes in the education in the industrial and post-industrial contexts with regard to its meaning, logics and causes. The advantages of the interdisciplinary approach are proving on the problem field of the philosophical pedagogy in times of its rising and falls.The restoration of philosophical pedagogy of the early and developed industrialism is proposing with its  idealistic and institutional paradigm   (Humboldt-Hegel-Spranger) and the alternative one – the critical anti-institutionalism(Nietzsche -Adorno-Foucault), The heuristic metaphor  of the invention of freedom shows on the political  engagement of  philosophical pedagogy  what has both the negative and positive aspects. Some political pathologies of the state in the early post-industrial societies need pedagogical treating. That is why the revival perspective of philosophical pedagogy is inquiring.  For this case some actual ideas of W. von Humboldt and its transformations are used to show the risks and dangerous of educational reforms in the post-industrial contexts.The Kantian and Hegelian transformations are researching with the aim to show different tendencies of the development of education in philosophical reflections of pedagogical issues with political consequences regarding as possible paradigmatic changes which can exist as complementary ones.  The coherence of political and pedagogical ideas can exist in different constellations pursuing different purposes. The pedagogical construct of freedom as autonomy was often used in the political programs and political decisions, but the political reason is also an important factor for the transformations of contemporary educational systems and practices. The pedagogical construct  of freedom foresees the autonomy of educational institutions and independency of individual which cal be lost by his transforming to a  Wikipedia-citizen.

Mapping Orientalist Discourses: Using Waltz with Bashir in the Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Tomé-Alonso ◽  
Lucía Ferreiro Prado
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Animated Film

Abstract While fiction and non-fiction productions can be used as tools to observe, describe, and analyze the “world-out-there,” within these events-issues centered approaches post-positivists posit films themselves as “cultural artifacts” to be analyzed. This paper proposes a critical analysis of Waltz with Bashir (2008) to be conducted with students in the classroom. This acclaimed animated film by Israeli writer and director Ari Folman depicting the 1982 Lebanon War is a non-obvious but germane example of Said's “Orientalism.” After explaining post-structuralism and post-orientalist stances on subjectivity, power relations, and the political consequences of the narratives we create, we analyze the film by applying an orientalist grid to Waltz with Bashir and raising qualitative questions to foster the student's criticality. We conclude by examining student's reactions to the film and their understanding of “Orientalism.”

Dynamic Displays of Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (9) ◽  
pp. 703-707
Author(s):  
Robin Angotti
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Secondary Classrooms ◽  
Mathematical Ideas ◽  
World Today ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World

The world today is inundated with data that communicate important mathematical ideas in a variety of representational forms. These different representations fundamentally affect how people interpret and use those ideas. However, graphical representations of data are no longer the typical static representations taught in secondary classrooms. Technological advances have given rise to nontraditional, multidimensional graphical representations that could not be displayed on a twodimensional sheet of paper.

scholarly journals Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Galápagos Islands

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Bocci
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Galapagos Islands ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Galápagos Islands ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Eradication Campaign ◽  
Global And Local

If calls to care for other species multiply in a time of global and local environmental crisis, this article demonstrates that caring practices are not always as benevolent or irenic as imagined. To save endemic tortoises from the menace of extinction, Proyecto Isabela killed more than two hundred thousand goats on the Galápagos Islands in the largest mammal eradication campaign in the world. While anthropologists have looked at human engagements with unwanted species as habitual and even pleasurable, I discuss an exceptional intervention that was ethically inflected toward saving an endemic species, yet also controversial and distressing. Exploring eradication’s biological, ecological, and political implications and discussing opposing practices of care for goats among residents, I move past the recognition that humans live in a multispecies world and point to the contentious nature of living with nonhuman others. I go on to argue that realizing competing forms of care may help conservation measures—and, indeed, life in the Anthropocene—to move beyond the logic of success and failure toward an open-ended commitment to the more-than-human.

scholarly journals Educação Ambiental extra-fronteiriça: fenomenologia da festa do Brasil e Japão

2017 ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Lucia Shiguemi Izawa Kawahara ◽  
Michèle Sato
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Just World ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ways Of Being

Em tempos de crise socioambiental global impondo os padrões de vida e valores pela lógica do mercado e também pela ciência desenvolvimentista, além da crise política que assola o nosso país e o mundo, nós educadores ambientais enfrentamos o grande desafio de refletir e buscar conhecer as diferentes formas de ser e estar neste mundo. No presente artigo, buscamos compartilhar e refletir sobre as possibilidades para a construção de um mundo mais justo. Reconhecemos que a dinâmica global se imbrica nas emaranhadas reflexões locais, e, assim, repousamos nossos olhares nos contextos das festas tradicionais das comunidades banhadas pelas águas do Pantanal mato-grossense do Brasil e das festas da colheita de arroz celebradas no outono na Ilha de Noto no Japão. Entre o EU individual e o NÓS coletivo fenomenológico, buscamos seguir os nexos da beleza da vida instaurada pela complexidade. Sem o esgotamento pela sua categorização ou análise, mas na aproximação de um determinado espaço e tempo para enamorarmos juntos, compreendendo o contexto e, coletivamente, construir saberes e pensar nas possibilidades de currículos pós-críticos para um futuro mais justo. In times of global socio-environmental crisis imposing standards of life and values under the logic of the market, also by a science which gives privileges to the economical development, in addition to the political crisis that plagues our country and the world, we environmental educators face the great challenge of reflecting and seeking to know the different ways of being and being in this world. In this article, we seek to share and reflect on the possibilities for building a more just world. We recognize that the global dynamics are rooted in the tangled local culture, and thus we rest our eyes in the contexts of the traditional feasts of the communities bathed by the waters of the Mato Grosso´s Pantanal of Brazil, besides the rice harvest´s celebrations in the autumn in the Island of Noto In Japan. Between the individual I and the phenomenological collective WE, we seek to follow the connection of the beauty of life established by the complexity. Without exhaustion by categorization or analysis, but in the approximation of a certain space and time to enchant together, understanding the context and, collectively, build knowledge and think about the possibilities of post-critical curricula for a more just future.

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