[OPE-L] Mute - Climate Change Issue

[Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@xxxxxxx>]

> M | U | T | E | __ rrrrrread it!
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> _____________________________________ 10 May 2007_
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> MUTE VOL 2 #5 SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE MAY '07
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> It's Not Easy Being Green - The Climate Change Issue is out now online
> and in print:
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<http://www.metamute.org/en/Mute-Vol-2-5-Its-Not-Easy-Being-Green-The-Climat
e-Change-Issue>
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> This issue of Mute seeks to defuse the ideological bomb of climate
> change, expose the plundering and non-reproduction of global resources
> as a problem of capital not mankind per se, and investigate the ends to
> which the spectre of eco-catastrophe is being used
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> Articles include:
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> Capital Climes
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> by Will Barnes
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> Liberal critics assume that climate change is a 'man-made' process, not
> a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global
> warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it - not nature but
capital
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> <http://www.metamute.org/en/Capital-Climes>
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> Act Macro: Technological Alternatives to Green Austerity
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> By James Woudhuysen
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> The emerging capitalist War On Global Warming concentrates on adapting
> technology and behaviour - particularly other nation-states' - to
> mitigate environmental damage. Transformative technological and social
> innovation is better than meddling micro-action, argues James Woudhuysen
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<http://www.metamute.org/en/Act-Macro-Technological-Alternatives-to-Green-Au
sterity>
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> Climate Change CO2lonialism
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> By Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young
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> In their tango with grassroots green activists, inter-governmental
> policy makers are taking the lead. Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young analyse the
> 'new green order' and the carbon offset colonialism that accompanies it
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>< http://www.metamute.org/en/Climate-Change-CO2lonialism>
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> Promised Lands
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> By Kate Rich
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> It's not just the founders of hippy communes or artists like Amy Balkin
> who are looking for 'a breathing space from the State' in which to
> experiment with freedom and free-time. Big IT companies like Google
> apparently share their ideals. With a commitment to 'me time', the
> production of 'universal access', and (energy) sovereignty, corporates
> are leveraging the dream of the commons
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> <http://www.metamute.org/en/Promised-Lands-Google-and-Morningstar>
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> Apocalypse and/or Business as Usual? The Energy Debate After the 2004 US
> Presidential Elections
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> By George Caffentzis
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> Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush's republican party has turned curiously
> green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal
> imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America's
> unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an 'anti-neoliberal' class of
> oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots
> the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to
> ecowarrior
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<http://www.metamute.org/en/Apocalypse-and-or-Business-as-Usual.-The-Energy-
Debate-After-the-2004-US-Presidential-Elections>
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> Heavy Opera
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> By Anthony Iles
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> John Jordan and James Hewitt's operatic audio tour set in London's
> Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of
> financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London
> Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also
> harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order. Review by Anthony
Iles
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>< http://www.metamute.org/en/Heavy-Opera>
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> BPerkeley Inc.?
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> By Iain A. Boal
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> As a lead in to Mute's climate change special issue, Iain Boal reports
> on BP's recent biofuel deal with University of California, Berkeley. In
> the name of a planetary emergency, the oil behemoth has both managed to
> greenwash biotech research and further entrench campus capitalism
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> <http://www.metamute.org/en/BPerkeley-Inc>
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> Also in this issue...
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> Zombie Nation
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> By Paul Helliwell
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> As the scarcity essential to the cultural commodity is undermined by
> digital abundance and social networking, social relations and the unique
> 'live' performance are all that's left to sell. Mass market music
> increasingly resembles relational art with its dream of waking the
> 'zombies' of consumer culture, but are the citizens of Web 2.0 society
> born again or undead? Paul Helliwell shuffles through the mall...
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> <http://www.metamute.org/en/Zombie-Nation>
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> Expropriate, Accumulate, Financialise
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> By Chris Wright and Samantha Alvarez
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> David Harvey is an influential academic theorist of the spatial,
> cultural and economic forms of neoliberal capitalism. Chris Wright and
> Samantha Alvarez contrast his analysis with that of Michael Hudson,
> whose Super Imperialism exposed the fiscal foundations of neoliberalism
> some 30 years earlier
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> <http://www.metamute.org/en/Expropriate-accumulate-financialise>
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> Further articles and reviews, already announced, are by Anthony Davies,
> Howard Slater and Peter Suchin
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