From 69b830093deb85012b1fef964184801ae7b52c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 12:18:55 +0100 Subject: log: some brief readings, 2025-05-06 --- log.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index 42d9f41..2f421b6 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ title: Dissertation log author: Joe Carstairs --- +## 2026-05-06 + +### @{nightingale-2020} + +Lots of interesting comments on why managerialist discourses obscure what's +really going on. Posit nature and society as separate, not connected. Lead to +techno-managerial solutions instead of political-economic ones, therefore fail. +Lots and lots of references to investigate further. I didn't have time just now. + +### @{climate-change-class-war} + +Criticises 'carbon footprint' and 'believe the science' discourse. This obscures +the truth: climate change is a class problem. The only solution is class action. + +### @{warm-words} + +The whole language landscape affects how a text is received; so one text may +express one view, another the opposite, and the net result for the audience is: +I guess nobody really knows, even though neither of the texts said that! + +Alarmist rhetoric gets shut down by settlerdom discourse: common sense, comic +nihilism. + ## 2026-05-05 ### George Monbiot -- cgit v1.2.3