by Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling The United Nations is 75 years old on 24 October 2020. It’s an unfortunate year to be reaching this milestone. Apart from global pandemic…
Don’t save ‘the world’ – embrace a pluriverse!
Thriving in an ever-changing world: from technocratic control to emancipatory care?
This is the fourth and last in a series of blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or…
Betraying the climate? Has environmentalism succumbed to a modernity it hitherto resisted?
This is the third in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or caring…
Does the delusion of ‘climate control’ do more harm than good to climate disruption?
This is the second in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or caring…
Is the naming of ‘climate change’ a dangerous self-defeat?
This is the first in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or caring…
Andy Stirling on Covid-19, modernity and control: video
STEPS co-director Andy Stirling gave an online talk on 15 May 2020 exploring ideas about modernity and the ‘futilities of control’, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The talk…
Borders and resources: “Across this line, you do not…”
Borders and maps are such a defining feature of modern civilisation that we can’t live without them. At the same time, many of us are subject to the mischievous urge…