it's not doom if it's the best case scenario
Published: November 2017, Novara Media It’s ok. You can say it. Everyone else seems to be saying it now anyway. It might even make you feel better. It’s too late. Just as we were all getting to grips with climate change, the sixth mass extinction, super storms and all the other end-of-the-world scientific prophecies –…
Published: July 2017 Novara Media “Yes, obviously, absent any real action to reduce emissions we’re fucked. BUT: That is not going to happen. The actually realistic danger zone is a combination of too little decarbonization, too late, in the context of hardening inequalities of class, race, and gender” – Daniel Aldana Cohen The past few days…
Authors: A Kanngieser and Nicholas BeuretSouth Atlantic Quarterly April 2017 Abstract: This essay establishes silence as an ethical-political response to the Anthropocene. Silence is key to the making of commons, which frames the reinvention of ways of living and relating as a necessary response to the Anthropocene moment. Drawing from and intervening in autonomist Marxist…
Published: Antipode 2017 Abstract: The environmental movement in the global North is in a state of impasse. It appears that despite the renewed international focus on climate change, and the actions of innumerable social movements, a ” solution ” to the problem appears as one, without a viable solution. It is the contention of this…
PhD Thesis, University of Leicester 2016 This thesis explores the role of the catastrophic imaginary in shaping environmental praxis in the UK. Confronted by the threat of a looming climate change catastrophe, environmentalism in the global North is caught in a state of impasse. Despite numerous organising attempts no mass climate change movement has emerged…
Published: Nov 2015 Novara Media The activist part of me is pissed off at the French government for banning the protest marches that planned to target the UN Climate Change conference (known as the COP21) in Paris this December. It would have been amazing to see thousands of people taking to the streets demanding climate…
Authors: Nicholas Beuret and Gareth BrownPublished: Oct 2015, Salvage Magazine The culture of the Anthropocene crawls with narratives of survival. A quick glance at the last few years’ TV and cinema listings reveals a plethora of such things, suggesting that the public appetite is strong enough for these narratives now to be considered an aspect…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret Issue 15: Winter 2012: Care Work and the Commons edited by Silvia Federici and Camille Barbagallo We wrote the following article almost two years ago, when the global economic crisis had in many ways just begun, as had the intensification of the neo-liberal program of ‘austerity’ in Britain. Stuart…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret (2012) Book chapter in: Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhereEdited by Alessio Lunghi & Seth Wheeler
Published: Feb 2011, Plan C What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that’s what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things,…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret Published: Feb 2008, Mute Magazine In light of Strangers into Citizens’ campaign for an amnesty for ‘illegals’ in the UK, Camille Barbagallo & Nic Beuret consider how such an act of ‘generosity’ on the part of the state would also reaffirm its power as the giver – as well…