Out of the Woods's blog

We’re really excited to say that the novelist and climate writer SL Lim is joining Out of the Woods. By way of getting to know their work a little better, and to begin the process of working collectively, we sent them a few questions drawn from our reading of their excellent Circuit Breakers blog. Their answers are generous, generative and show why we’re phenomenally excited at their joining us.

The now well-documented failings at Commune magazine are not Commune's failings alone. Out of the Woods stands in solidarity with the survivor, but understands this solidarity to extend to an examination of our own structures. This statement addresses theses issues and commits to further actions.

UPDATE 30/06/2020. We have now published our accountability procedure, which is available in this document: Accountability Procedure

We’re really excited to announce that Common Notions are publishing an edited collection of our writings.

The second part of our critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on how their organisational form leaves them ill-placed to change for the better.

The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison.

Paul Kingsnorth, writing in The Guardian, has called for an explicitly nationalist environmentalism. Out of the Woods offer a critique and an alternative.

Climate change could displace millions of people. Can fascistic responses be inoculated against? The second of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

Climate change could displace millions of people, and border politics are a matter of life and death. The first of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.

Some members of Out of the Woods have written responses to a new book, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams.

Climate change will put pressure on world food production. We must disentangle the potential benefits of agricultural science and technology from agribusiness' centralised control of the food chain.

What can we do about a problem as big as climate change? Here are six ideas.

Thinking climate futures through the image of the child and reproduction smuggles conservative assumptions into our understanding and forecloses utopian possibilities.

In this fourth installment on our series on food and climate, we look at the dynamics of capitalist agriculture in terms of production, class formation, and the ‘metabolic rift’ in the nitrogen cycle.

This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.

A brief primer on the ongoing UN climate talks, as delegates meet in Lima.

Why is there hunger? It’s nothing to do with a lack of food.

The Occupied Times has kindly given us a centre-spread in their new issue, which has an apocalypse theme.

The common-sense distinction between nature and society was established through the bloody history of capitalist and colonial development, which brought about a real separation between the social and natural worlds.

Large demonstrations are planned to push for action on climate change. Here we discuss the potentials and pitfalls of climate populism.