Between Earth and Empire : From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community : Clark, John P

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword-By Peter Marshall; Preface-Some Basic Concepts; Introduction-Lessons from the School of Radical Change (Notes of a Slow Learner); Part I: Empire Versus Earth in the Necrocene; 1. Ecological Thinking and the Crisis of the Earth; 2. How an Anarchist Discovered the Earth; 3. Education for the Earth or Education for Empire?; 4. The Summit of Ambition: The Paris Climate Spectacle and the Politics of the Gesture; 5. Against Resilence: Hurricane Katrina and the Politics of Disavowal; Part II: Another World is Actual

6. Homage to Lacandonia: The Politics of Heart and Spirit in Chiapas7. Lessons of the Rojavan Revolution; 8. Papua Merdeka: The Indigenous Struggle against State and Corporate Domination; 9. Power to the Community: The Black Panthers’ Living Legacy of Grassroots Organization; 10. From the Movement of Occupation to the Community of Liberation; Part III: The Awakening of Consciousness; 11. Another Sun Is Possible: Thoughts for the Solstice; 12. Do You Know What It Means? Reflections on Suffering, Disaster, and Awakening; 13. Buddhism, Radical Critique, and Revolutionary Praxis

14. Rumi and the Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy15. Regionalism and the Politics of Experience; Part IV: Power to the Imagination (Fifty Years Later); 16. In Search of the Radical Imagination: Two Concepts of the Social Imaginary; 17. The Spectacle Looks Back into You: The Situationists and the Aporias of the Left; 18. Happy Birthday, Utopia! (You Deserve a Present); 19. Carnival at the Edge of the Abyss: New Orleans and the Apocalyptic Imagination; POSTSCRIPT Oikos and Poesis: On Earth and Rebirth; APPENDIX Emergency Heart Sutra; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Authors