Ultrablack Landscapes
Let’s take a look at Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea: the seemingly infernal blackness that covers the earth does not come from the sky but seems to rise from a black sea that is recognizable only […]
Let’s take a look at Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea: the seemingly infernal blackness that covers the earth does not come from the sky but seems to rise from a black sea that is recognizable only […]
Text by: William Jourdain Translation: Jan Heintz This is the descriptive text seeking to theorize The Other Landscapes, a multi-faceted digital art exhibition at Expression art gallery bringing together works by four artists as well as a theoretical text by
The digital art exhibition ”The Other Landscapes”; How to expand and remix details of nature?
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
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,
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
Of modernity’s illusions, none is so powerful—and none more fundamental to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s belief structures—than Man and Nature (Moore 2021e). I have written these words in the uppercase because they are not merely words; they are instruments of bourgeois
How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life
My point here is that at some level, not necessarily consciously, pareidolia reminds us of our interconnection with the world whose fractal patterns and dynamics we use in our bodies and minds to experience that same world. Pareidolia often occasions
Steve Keen’s book, The New Economics: A Manifesto (2021), offers a new path for economics, and for good reason. In his view, neoclassicism, the paradigm that rules modern-day economics, has become a serious menace: I regard Neoclassical economics as not
Steve Keen’s The New Economics: A Manifesto
The best starting point for reconstructing a world-historical theory of ecological transformation under capitalism is found in Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. For Marx and Engels (1970), the theory of metabolic rift centers on the ecological moment of the antagonistic
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND THE METABOLIC RIFT IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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)
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
ABSTRACT Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an astonishing historical capacity to produce, locate, and occupy cheap natures external to the system. In
Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology