Anthony Chaney
@anthonychaney.bsky.social
Author of Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness. Contributing author to Society for US Intellectual History Blog. Songwriter for the Dallas honky tonk band, Lucky Pierres. https://anthonychaney.com/
The systems view and degrowth meet in Neil Howe’s scheme of recursive cycles in history. If we are entering the final years of Crisis, a solstice era of both “maximum darkness” and “renascent community,” degrowth may be the concept needed to resolve our most stubborn socio-ecological challenges.
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The systems view and degrowth meet in Neil Howe’s scheme of recursive cycles in history. If we are entering the final years of Crisis, a solstice era of both “maximum darkness” and “renascent community,” degrowth may be the concept needed to resolve our most stubborn socio-ecological challenges.
Thinking of this song again today.
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Devil Philosophy by The Enablers from their self-titled album
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September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thinking of this song again today.
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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
I'm having trouble loving my monsters—that is to say, my students, who have re-emerged, as if from some Ironman-like techno-rebuild, newly fortified behind a thick armor of machine language. Is there anyone in there anymore? How would I know?
April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'm having trouble loving my monsters—that is to say, my students, who have re-emerged, as if from some Ironman-like techno-rebuild, newly fortified behind a thick armor of machine language. Is there anyone in there anymore? How would I know?
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Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."
Nationwide 'Hands Off!' protests erupt against Trump and Musk
Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off!"
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April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."
Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…
Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett at Dickie’s Arena, where they hold the annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. The two dates fell on a Thursday and Friday, the week after the election. Would I be elated, my trust in the American electorate renewed? Or—well, we all know how it turned out.
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December 16, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…
“The promise of America is realized in its music,” T Bone Burnett, November 14, the Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX. My essay up at Society for US Intellectual History today: s-usih.org/2024/12/fort...
Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024 | Society for US Intellectual History
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler ...
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December 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
“The promise of America is realized in its music,” T Bone Burnett, November 14, the Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX. My essay up at Society for US Intellectual History today: s-usih.org/2024/12/fort...
What does it mean to see intelligence and historical agency in the non-human world? My essay on Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes is up on the Society for US Intellectual History blog today: s-usih.org/2024/09/the-...
The Poppy Acts: the agency of the non-human in Amitav Ghosh’s *Smoke and Ashes* | Society for US Intellectual History
Once in a while, even in works of popular history, an author will raise the prospect that what happened twelve thousand years ago, during the so-called Agricultural Revolution, wasn't that humans dome...
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September 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
What does it mean to see intelligence and historical agency in the non-human world? My essay on Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes is up on the Society for US Intellectual History blog today: s-usih.org/2024/09/the-...
RIP Alice Munro. One of the greats
May 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM
RIP Alice Munro. One of the greats