PinnedDoug Bierend·Dec 12, 2025I’m Leaving Medium—Please Follow Me at PositHello dear reader/email subscriber. Doug Bierend here, your friendly neighborhood writer/author/sometimes journalist. I’m reaching out…
Doug Bierend·Mar 11A Basic Call to ConsciousnessA 1977 treatise submitted by the Haudenosaunee to the United Nations provides a piercing and still-relevant critique of western…
Doug Bierend·Dec 4, 2025Introducing Posit, a newsletter about forgetting the futuristicDear readers,A response icon1A response icon1
Doug Bierend·Nov 24, 2025Posit — Issue #01Introducing Posit / looking past the futuristic / further reading
Doug Bierend·Nov 12, 2025A Better Tomorrow Means Forgetting the Futuristic[This is the first article from my upcoming newsletter, Posit—Subscribe here!]A response icon10A response icon10
Doug Bierend·Dec 12, 2024One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth FutureIf we are to step off onto other worlds, shouldn’t it be from right relationship to this one?A response icon11A response icon11
Doug Bierend·Dec 26, 2022The Machines Have Already RisenWe shouldn’t fear AI. We should be fighting what’s already built.A response icon19A response icon19
InGENbyDoug Bierend·Aug 10, 2021Negotiating Ecological GriefTrying to justify hope in the face of increasingly certain doom.A response icon9A response icon9
Doug Bierend·May 28, 2021Mushrooms are Having a MomentI took a journey into the fringes of fungal fascination — here’s what I learnedA response icon12A response icon12
InVantagebyDoug Bierend·May 7, 2018Using Video to Defend Indigenous RightsAn online workshop by WITNESS shares the best practices for capturing and leveraging video against abuses of power
