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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

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Introduction)

 Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.  … Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology, and every

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Introduction)

Wasting Away: Value, Waste, and Appropriation in the Capitalist World-Ecology

The decisive violence imposed on life by the capitalist mode of production derives from its quest for radical simplification. The dream, the fantasy, the nightmare of capital is its practical desire — practical, yet impossible — for world of interchangeable

Wasting Away: Value, Waste, and Appropriation in the Capitalist World-Ecology

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