What’s Left? We have become used to a certain version of eco-melancholia.2 We are saturated by it. Our lost objects are endless. There are the vanishing forests, the starving polar bears, and the daily horrors of the meat industry. There is …
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
Looking back at the history of labor struggles since the advent of capitalism, one pattern is striking: struggles against the devaluation and for the decommodification of labor have tended to trigger ‘fixes’ and ‘innovations’ of capital, including technological ones. Thus, …
The Earth is undergoing a period of intense techno-scientific transformations. If no remedy is found, the ecological disequilibrium this has generated will ultimately threaten the continuation of life on the planet’ s surface. Alongside these upheavals, human modes of life, …
How can we build our future on the legacies and claims of those who, yesterday as today, have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex? And how can we make such struggles a source of inspiration for a …
This essay shows how a new materialist theory of the Earth side-steps the distinction between the global and the planetary that structuresChakrabarty’s historiography. It advocates for a non-binary-generating ap-proach to our planetary situation grounded in the philosophy of motion. read …
No civilization has been more Promethean than capitalism in its aspirations. Named after the Greek Titan who gave fire to humankind, Prometheanism is understood as a kind of environmental—but not (necessarily) environmentalist—strategy for the domination and management of something usually …
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 …
How does one begin to broach the question of linkage, passage, and reflexivity to be found in the theories and practices of anarchism, the radical post-psychoanalysis of Felix Guattari, and the ontological framework that has been ushered in the necessity …
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 …
King, C. W. (2020). The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy. Springer Nature. If you are interested in the megatrends of the 21st century, then Carey King’s new book The Economic Superorganism should be on your reading list. …