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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

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight from World History, Part II

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

How to Read Capitalism in the Web of Life: Towards a World-Historical Materialism in the Web of Life

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

ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND THE METABOLIC RIFT IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

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

World accumulation and planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut

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

World accumulation and planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut

Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology

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

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