climate change

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

Too Hot to Handle: Why Climate Change Means Inflation Won’t Boil Over

Alla Semenova While mainstream economic theory treats weather and climate as exogenous factors which can only cause temporary disruptions to the economic equilibrium, the increasing severity of climate change means that supply-side disruptions, shortages and cost increases are becoming a

Too Hot to Handle: Why Climate Change Means Inflation Won’t Boil Over

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

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

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

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