In 2012, global CO2 emissions were 58% higher than in 1990, causing, among other things, hurricanes to become stronger due to higher temperatures in ocean catchments and Arctic ecosystems to reach a number of tipping points. The limit at which […]
Capitalocene and fossil capital (malm; Moore)
A piece by the committee for the defense and decolonization of territories. Originally published by Ill Will Editions. Preface For four years, the Committee for the Defense and Decolonization of Territories has been compiling the reflections of participants in territorial defense
Halting mass deforestation: Paths towards a decolonial revolution
A UN report says millions more will go hungry owing to the catastrophic effects of climate change. AFP A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the accelerating danger
Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating
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
– It’s not the first time in history that the possibility of vhumanity’s extinction is taken seriously. Let’s think about Günther Anders, highlighting humanity’s capacity to produce its self-destruction thanks to the atomic bomb; let’s think about Hans Jonas, warning
HOSTING THE GHOST: ON LIMBO AESTHETICS / Alienocene 9
Online Discussion: The Pipeline Riots and the Riot Pipeline: Struggles in a Warming World, with Joshua Clover and Andreas Malm Pipeline-Riots: Ökonomische und ökologische Kämpfe in einer erhitzen Welt. Mit Joshua Clover und Andreas Malm Vielfalt Sozialistischen Denkens Anmeldung /
Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely movement-oriented or “kinetic” theory of the earth. This methodology has two
How swiftly do genres of the quarantine emerge! Notable among them is the discovery of the relation between the present pandemic and onrushing climate collapse. The driving force of this genre is not holy shit two ways for a lot
The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour
30 years ago, there were 15 border walls around the world; now there are 70 walls and over 1 billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next 40 years due to global warming. Our
The Climate Industrial Complex
A recent wave of protest activity against climate change, and general environmental degradation, has been seen around the world. But curiously open revolt around the world has not centered around climate change itself, but rather around circulation struggles: the name
Prole Wave: climate change, circulation struggles & the communist horizon
REVOLUTION IN A WARMING WORLD Lessons from the Russian to the Syrian Revolutions by Andreas Malm It doesn’t take much imagination to associate climate change with revolution. If the planetary order upon which all societies are built starts breaking down,
Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World
When talking about the environment and climate change, the conversation will inevitably turn to carbon. Often tossed into that discussion are things like emissions or your carbon footprint. But what do these terms really mean? Not just for us, but
Something in the Air and On the Road: Carbon Emission and Our Nation’s Largest Source of CO2