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 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

Heating Up: An Interview With Peter Gelderloos On Climate Change And The Fight To Change Everything

From It’s going down (19/09/2023) … This summer brought yet another record heat wave, as climate change fueled disasters hit countries around the world, leaving human communities devastated by flooding, wildfires, and storms. While this “new normal” has brought climate change to the forefront of

Heating Up: An Interview With Peter Gelderloos On Climate Change And The Fight To Change Everything

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

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

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

Opiates of the Environmentalists? Anthropocene Illusions, Planetary Management & the Capitalocene Alternative

Effective ideologies blur the lines between empirical realities and political interpretation. Some members of the human species are indeed driving planetary life into the planetary inferno. This geological and geohistorical transition is often narrated as the Anthropocene, the Age of

Opiates of the Environmentalists? Anthropocene Illusions, Planetary Management & the Capitalocene Alternative

World accumulation and planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut

How does capitalism work through the web of life? How can we begin to understand capitalism not simply as an economic system of markets and production and a social system of class and culture, but as a way of organising

World accumulation and planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut

Climate crisis and self-critique: “We thrive uninvited where we were never meant to grow.”

The man made catastrophe called climate change is already a reality for many people. This catastrophe hits those hardest, who have the least capacities of adapting to it – and the least responsibility of creating it. Given this situation, how

Climate crisis and self-critique: “We thrive uninvited where we were never meant to grow.”

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