Jason Moore

There is No Such Thing as a Technological Accident: Cheap Natures, Climate Crisis & Technological Impasse

What if Virilio’s compelling rendering of integral accidents – as “chain reactions” of “incidents and disasters” – is turned inside out, into the heart of capitalism’s much-vaunted capacity for so-called innovation? Integral accidents issue from capitalism’s specific integration of power, […]

There is No Such Thing as a Technological Accident: Cheap Natures, Climate Crisis & Technological Impasse

Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

In the hustle and bustle of climate scholarship it’s easy to lose sight of something fundamental about the climate crisis: it’s the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities. The climate crisis is a

Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the Capitalocene

Anthropogenic phraseology serves double duty for much of the Green Left. It works descriptively, advancing a naïve empiricism. To the degree that a philosophical an-thropology is offered, we are served up a philosophy of history that turns on a self-referential,

Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the Capitalocene

There is no such thing as a technological accident: Cheap Natures, climate crisis & technological impasse

What if Virilio’s compelling rendering of integral accidents – as chain reactions” of “incidents and disasters” – is turned inside out, into the heart of capitalism’s much vaunted capacity for “innovation”? Integral accidents issue from capitalism’s specific integration of power, profit and

There is no such thing as a technological accident: Cheap Natures, climate crisis & technological impasse

Waste in the Limits to Capital: How Capitalism Lays Waste to the Web of Life, and Why It Can’t Stop

The general law of overpollution synthesizes these insights, highlighting three moments. It specifies the relational asymmetry between surplus value and surplus pollu-tion, the latter reckoned as forms of toxification “surplus to” the geobiological capacities to metabolize –and neutralize – wastes

Waste in the Limits to Capital: How Capitalism Lays Waste to the Web of Life, and Why It Can’t Stop

Imperialism, With and Without Cheap Nature: Climate Crises, World Wars & the Ecology of Liberation

The Ukraine War reflects and reinforces the exhaustion of Cheap Natures. Earlier Thirty Years Wars (1618-48, 1792-1815, 1914-45)  were entwined with successive developmental crises of Cheap Nature that could be resolved through new imperialisms, new rounds of commodification and appropriation.

Imperialism, With and Without Cheap Nature: Climate Crises, World Wars & the Ecology of Liberation

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

Every paragraph of Can Global Capitalism Endure? sizzles with insights. Here is William I. Robinson at his best: empirically sensitive, theoretically original, politically committed. Global Capitalism, in this groundbreaking formulation, is no amalgamation: “global” plus “capitalism.” It identifies, rather, an

Global Capitalism in the Great Implosion. From Planetary Superexploitation to Planetary Socialism?

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight from World History, Part II

My critique, and its reconstructive alternative, recognizes that Civilization (‘Society’) and Savagery (‘Nature’) do exist, but as strategies of domination and superexploitation – hence the structural recurrence of bourgeois naturalism in the geocultures of domination. (Every era of capitalism must reinvent racism,

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight from World History, Part II

How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life

Of modernity’s illusions, none is so powerful—and none more fundamental to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s belief structures—than Man and Nature (Moore 2021e). I have written these words in the uppercase because they are not merely words; they are instruments of bourgeois

How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight
from World History: Dialectical Universalism
& the Geographies of Class Power in the
Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

The roots of Cheap Nature and its double register – economic exploitationand geocultural domination – are found in modern imperialism. Imperialism is thebourgeoisie’s preferred mode of class formation because it more readily brings to bearthe military and juridical power of

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight
from World History: Dialectical Universalism
& the Geographies of Class Power in the
Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

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