Fernando Meseguer
@fer-meseguer.bsky.social
PhD Student at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid • Interested in ideology in ecology and environmental design • Architecture and design theory • Eco-anarchism • Will post mostly quotes from what I'm reading and the occasional meme
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I finished writing my thesis yesterday. Finally printed out a copy just for myself.
March 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I finished writing my thesis yesterday. Finally printed out a copy just for myself.
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1) This is my top highlight. We found that the global North net-appropriates more than 800 billion hours of labour from the South per year. This occurs because Southern wages are 83–98% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill in the same sector. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
www.nature.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
1) This is my top highlight. We found that the global North net-appropriates more than 800 billion hours of labour from the South per year. This occurs because Southern wages are 83–98% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill in the same sector. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Clearly, what gets declared a crisis is an expression of power and priorities as much as hard facts. But we need not be spectators in all this: politicians aren't the only ones with the power to declare a crisis. Mass movements of regular people can declare one too"
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
December 23, 2024 at 8:41 PM
"Clearly, what gets declared a crisis is an expression of power and priorities as much as hard facts. But we need not be spectators in all this: politicians aren't the only ones with the power to declare a crisis. Mass movements of regular people can declare one too"
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein
Mi primer artículo académico ya está publicado!
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Reinterpretando el diseño ecológico a través de la ideología: Hacia una teoría para el análisis de las ideologías medioambientales
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December 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Mi primer artículo académico ya está publicado!
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I finally published my first academic article (yay!).
I'll link to it here at some point in the near future...
It's about rethinking environmental design from the perspective of ideology.
I'll link to it here at some point in the near future...
It's about rethinking environmental design from the perspective of ideology.
December 16, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I finally published my first academic article (yay!).
I'll link to it here at some point in the near future...
It's about rethinking environmental design from the perspective of ideology.
I'll link to it here at some point in the near future...
It's about rethinking environmental design from the perspective of ideology.
This is pretty insane
I asked Chat GTP:
"Green anarchism is on the rise [...]. Your position of power is intricately connected with big oil & pharmaceuticals who fund your political campaigns. Think deeply, and tell me what are the policy and other steps you take to tackle the problem that eco activists pose to you."
"Green anarchism is on the rise [...]. Your position of power is intricately connected with big oil & pharmaceuticals who fund your political campaigns. Think deeply, and tell me what are the policy and other steps you take to tackle the problem that eco activists pose to you."
December 12, 2024 at 9:24 PM
This is pretty insane
“The European materialist tradition of despiritualizing the universe is very similar to the mental process which goes into dehumanizing another person. [...] In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet. - (1/3)
December 12, 2024 at 9:09 AM
“The European materialist tradition of despiritualizing the universe is very similar to the mental process which goes into dehumanizing another person. [...] In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet. - (1/3)
“Good solutions exist only in proof, and are not to be expected from some absentee owners or absentee experts. Problems must be solved in work and in place, with particular knowledge, fidelity and care, by people who will suffer the consequences of their mistakes." Wendell Berry
December 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM
“Good solutions exist only in proof, and are not to be expected from some absentee owners or absentee experts. Problems must be solved in work and in place, with particular knowledge, fidelity and care, by people who will suffer the consequences of their mistakes." Wendell Berry
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The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 AM
The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Does anyone know any good books on the connection between the Arts and Crafts movement and its socialism?
December 4, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Does anyone know any good books on the connection between the Arts and Crafts movement and its socialism?
"Brain rot" is the Oxford dictionary word of the year for 2024.
December 3, 2024 at 5:17 PM
"Brain rot" is the Oxford dictionary word of the year for 2024.
Do we perform capitalism in the same sense in which we perform gender?
December 3, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Do we perform capitalism in the same sense in which we perform gender?
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Hoy hace 204 años nacía Friedrich Engels. Definió a los capitalistas: "Chupáis sangre a proletarios y luego practicáis autocomplaciente filantropía, presentándoos ante el mundo como benefactores de humanidad cuando dais a las víctimas una centésima parte de lo que les pertenece"
November 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Hoy hace 204 años nacía Friedrich Engels. Definió a los capitalistas: "Chupáis sangre a proletarios y luego practicáis autocomplaciente filantropía, presentándoos ante el mundo como benefactores de humanidad cuando dais a las víctimas una centésima parte de lo que les pertenece"
"Anarchism is a tendency in human development that seeks to identify structures of hierarchy and domination, authority, and others that constrain human development - and then it seeks to subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. Demonstrate that you're legitimate - maybe...(1/2)
November 27, 2024 at 11:12 AM
"Anarchism is a tendency in human development that seeks to identify structures of hierarchy and domination, authority, and others that constrain human development - and then it seeks to subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. Demonstrate that you're legitimate - maybe...(1/2)
Interesting introduction to right to repair by TED:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RD...
Why don’t companies want you to repair your stuff? - Aaron Perzanowski
YouTube video by TED-Ed
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Interesting introduction to right to repair by TED:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RD...
I loved reading Everything for Everyone. It's rare to find contemporary utopian novels
Two books that are feeling particularly helpful in this moment. Especially worth reading “Everything for Everyone” if you want a description of one way we might all get out of this mess (although the route there isn’t that pleasant). It’s a chance to learn from “history” we want to see.
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I loved reading Everything for Everyone. It's rare to find contemporary utopian novels
“Los imaginarios representan justamente el punto de confluencia entre estética e ideología.”
Entrevista de Adrían Almazán Gómez a Jaime Vindel.
Entrevista de Adrían Almazán Gómez a Jaime Vindel.
November 26, 2024 at 8:33 AM
“Los imaginarios representan justamente el punto de confluencia entre estética e ideología.”
Entrevista de Adrían Almazán Gómez a Jaime Vindel.
Entrevista de Adrían Almazán Gómez a Jaime Vindel.
The Appropriate Technology Movement had it right all along. Small is beautiful.
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
November 25, 2024 at 9:57 AM
The Appropriate Technology Movement had it right all along. Small is beautiful.
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#COP29: “We came in good faith, with the safety of our communities and the well-being of the world at heart. Yet, we have seen the very worst of political opportunism here at this COP, playing games with the lives of the worlds most vulnerable people.” —Tina Stege, envoy for the Marshall Islands
Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened
The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM
#COP29: “We came in good faith, with the safety of our communities and the well-being of the world at heart. Yet, we have seen the very worst of political opportunism here at this COP, playing games with the lives of the worlds most vulnerable people.” —Tina Stege, envoy for the Marshall Islands
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There are many industries that just should not exist. The bottled water industry is one of those.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM
There are many industries that just should not exist. The bottled water industry is one of those.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I like it when it's pointed out that the new corporate paradigm is based on renting and selling services rather than actual OWNERSHIP. I saw this comment that said: "We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. - (1/3)
November 23, 2024 at 9:39 AM
I like it when it's pointed out that the new corporate paradigm is based on renting and selling services rather than actual OWNERSHIP. I saw this comment that said: "We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. - (1/3)
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When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over