Mission statement and submission guidelines — Nowadays, stories about human-driven destruction and impending doomsday scenarios overwhelm our newsfeeds and our social and political imagination. …

The freedom convoy The ‘freedom convoy’ arrived in Ottawa approximately three weeks ago, alerting Canadians of the real threat of far-right groups in Canada as well as the degree of US involvement in Canadian politics. By now, it is no secret that these and other anti-public-health-measures groups like the Maverick…

Rethinking alliances in the Age of Man — What is posthumanism? The “posthuman turn” in critical theory has been a response to the anthropocentric bias of the Western intellectual tradition and its corresponding organization and conceptualization of human life as unique and superior to other forms of life and matter. …

A World Born in Ruins — Since the explosion of unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, the 4,200-square-kilometer zone that surrounds the nuclear plant has been deemed uninhabitable due to high levels of lingering radioactive contamination. Interestingly, studies have found that wildlife populations have risen in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) since…

New directions in economic thought The Metaverse The metaverse has been described as shared virtual world environments accessible through the internet and relevant gadgets like cellphones, videogame consoles, VR headsets, and AR glasses. But grasping exactly what the metaverse is can be tricky. As an article in Wired puts it…

Was the Emergencies Act invoked to quell freedom convoy occupations or to discipline law enforcement? In response to the freedom convoy protests, blockades, and occupations, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked Canada’s never before used Emergencies Act. …

On the underlaying causes of trucker grievances It’s been a couple weeks since the ‘Freedom Convoy’ first began its journey from Delta, BC to Parliament Hill in Ottawa, ON to protest against the federal government’s Jan. 15 vaccine mandate. On its way there, the convoy gained the support of well…

How capitalist and far-right imaginaries co-opt working class grievances It’s been two weeks since the ‘Freedom Convoy’ reached Canada’s capital, Ottawa, to protest against the federal government’s Jan. 15 vaccine mandate. The convoy was organized by anti-mandate group, Canada Unity, and supported by various anti-vaxx and separatist groups like the…

Climate Change, Limitless Growth, and 20th Century Economic Thought Nowadays, we tend to associate concepts like nature and the environment with ‘nonhuman’ things like forests, wildlife, oceans, etc. We speak about nature as something that is separate from society and from all the ‘unnatural’ or ‘humanmade’ things that society entails…