Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Erica Cirino:
“Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies”
Bonus link: “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health — Pesticides, Plastics, Forever Chemicals, and Beyond” and “Twenty Years of Microplastics Pollution Research—What Have We Learned?” and “Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains”
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
“The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty”
Link to an article by Gary Wilson:
“Deadly Hazards of Capitalist Profit System: Global Heat Soars, Wildfires Spread Toxic Smoke”
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
Link to an article by Summer Pappachen:
Link to an interview of Jayati Ghosh conducted by Liam Kennedy:
Link to an article by Sonali Kolhatkar:
“Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”
(isn’t interest in A.I. primarily that of a fantasy of legal slavery?)
Bonus links: “The Dystopian AI Future Some Fear Is the Present-Day Reality Others Live” and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
Link to an article by Ernest Mandel from Spheres of Influence in the Age of Imperialism (1972):
“The Driving Forces of Imperialism”
Bonus link: “The Dialectic of Growth”
Link to an article by Franklin Frederick:
“Global Warming and Water Privatization”
Bonus link: “Raising the Bar on the Type, Size and Timeline of a ‘Successful’ Decoupling”
Link to an article by Patrick Lawrence:
“US Still Nowhere with the Chinese”
Bonus link: “Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator” (“So institutionally, we are engaging in the same sort of self-destructive behavior that Trump practices personally. Perhaps that is the real reason Democrats hate him. Despite decorating in gold, the essence of his behavior is not all that different than theirs.”)