We chat with Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie — authors of the indispensable newsletter The Polycrisis and hosts of the new podcast Electric World Order
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We lay out what an energy transition under conditions of polycrisis actually entails: things don’t just smoothly change while staying the same, instead it’s more like a material shift in the centre of political, economic, energetic power: from the petrostate (e.g. USA) to the electrostate (e.g. China).
Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
“One way of seeing how a toleration of avoidance leads to conflict is that when we give up on engaging with moral disagreements . . . we create a moral void at the heart of public discourse.” That, in his view, has been the cost of the politics we have seen since the 1990s. “Democratic citizens can’t abide for long a public discourse empty of larger moral meaning.” Sooner or later that void would have to be filled by “narrow, intolerant, dangerous moralisms of two kinds: religious fundamentalism or hypernationalism. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen.”
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There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to
Citarella will give a presentation on his recent text A Multipolar Art World?, in which he argues that the era of globalization underpinning contemporary art as we know it is ending, giving way to a location-specific, multipolar art world.
2026-01-16 2PM – 3PM EST
Online via Zoom
https://luma.com/aw_Joshua_Citarella