UCSF Chemical Industry Documents

by | Sep 25, 2018 | Uncategorized

A couple weeks ago, UCSF launched our newest collection of industry documents. The UCSF Industry Documents archive is a repository of almost one hundred million pages of previously secret industry documents now searchable for the public due to discovery and legal...

Whither the Relevance of Print Media?

by | Aug 9, 2018 | Uncategorized

The great American newspapers have shot themselves in the foot. In the race against online media and decentralized user-based content, when they haven’t been bought up by conglomerates with the intention to destroy them or use them as organs of ideology, newspapers...

The Elon Musk of E-waste

by | Jul 12, 2018 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, e-waste, Energy, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized

My new article, “Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste?” in my favorite popular science online magazine Nautilus, describes the Right to Repair movement, and the necessity to move from a linear manufacturing process built on planned and perceived...

New Article: Environmental Justice as a Potentially Hegemonic Concept

by | Jun 29, 2018 | agroecology, conservation, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Indigenous Peoples, Perverse Incentives, Publications, Uncategorized

As part of my project on land rights in Latin America, a recent paper titled “Environmental justice as a (potentially) hegemonic concept: a historical look at competing interests between the MST and indigenous people in Brazil” appears in Local...

Biosemiotics Gathering Schedule

by | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized

The 2018 Biosemiotics Gathering at UC Berkeley organized by myself and Terry Deacon takes place June 17-20 at the International House. Please see www.biosemiotics.life for more information. The Biosemiotics schedule can be found here.