Now comes the voice of Tad Delay, author of the recently published Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change, via an interview well worth listening to in its entirely.
An excerpt transcribed below, with captioned image added by DP.
TAKE A HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR OR BLAME THIS ON ANTIFA: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!
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When someone declares that they believe that technology will save us from the consequences of climate breakdown, we are reminded of the Philip K. Dick observation that reality is what is still there when you stop “believing” in it.
We are indebted to a DP correspondent for steering us towards a sobering, factual report written by the distinguished climate scientist Vaclav Smil. The entire report is available here; an excerpt below. Graph appears earlier in the report.
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We are having a bit of a Lydia Millet festival here at DP; her prescient and darkly comic novel, A Children’s Bible, highly recommended as a tonic for all that ails us.
Below, a brief passage from an essay for the increasingly indispensable Orion magazine. Image added by DP, grateful for the covenant of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance.
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Now comes poet Catherine Barnett, with excerpts from a recent interview regarding her recently published collection, Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space. Image added by DP.
EDWARD HOPPER, AUTOMAT (1927)
And an excerpt from one of the poems:
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Now comes the voice of writer Lydia Millet, from within the flow of a recent Orion conversation, well worth reading in toto; excerpts below.
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On a bright & sunny day following the solar eclipse, during which the world did not come to an end, we turn to the incomparable Anne Carson with a passage from an essay dating back to 2003, and published in the also incomparable Cabinet magazine. The entire essay is worthy of close reading; a brief excerpt below.
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Now comes Karinne Keithley Syers, whose plays are marvelously impossible to pin down, with news of a forthcoming production of The Lydian Gale Parr:
Below, an illuminating missive sent to DP from the playwright, who longtime readers may remember as the Sorceress of the Mole Cabal:
DETAIL FROM THE POSTER, CREATED BY WESLEY ALLSBROOK
And finally, a synopsis of this extraordinary journey for which tickets (sure to sell out) are still available:
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Now comes the always-stimulating poet-philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé with a recent manifesto, of sorts, from the fertile fungal carpets of the Emergence Network. The entire text is worthy of consideration; a brief excerpt below.
For an exploration of possible post-activist responses, carry on here.
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Now comes the invigorating voice of philosopher Costica Bradatan, author of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility, on order here at DP HQ. A recent interview in the LARB is worth close reading in its entirety; an excerpt below, with an image added by DP.
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On a day when the courageous voice of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been silenced by “a small man in a bunker”, we offer a passage from his bold & lucid statement made during a court hearing in 2021:
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