The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay An Elemental Thing

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Rwandance” sees Andi move into new territory - born out of a meeting between Andi and Rwandan musician and dancer Evariste Karinganire

Der amerikanische Soziologe Erik Olin Wright entwickelt in diesem nun endlich auf Deutsch vorliegenden Werk neue analytische Grundlagen

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Ruby Press The Ghosts of Birds offersThe present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon