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Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

In the hustle and bustle of climate scholarship it’s easy to lose sight of something fundamental about the climate crisis: it’s the direct outcome of the bourgeoisie’s drive to turn all life into profit-making opportunities. The climate crisis is a […]

Power, Profit and Prometheanism, Part II: Superexploitation in the Web of Life

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

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

Bemerkungen zu: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Moore/Patel) – (2)

Die Verbindung zwischen Arbeit, Natur und der Logik der Vereinfachung zeigt eine längere Kontinuität an. Und in diesem Kontext Arbeit und Umwelt als Gegensatz zu begreifen, ist analytisch falsch. Schon Marx kritisierte die deutschen Sozialisten dafür, die Arbeit als die

Bemerkungen zu: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Moore/Patel) – (2)

Bemerkungen zu: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Moore/Patel) – (1)

Wir liefern hier einen kurzen Abriss zu dem neuen Buch von Jason W. Moore und Raj Patel “A History of The World in Seven Cheaps Things”. Strittige Punkte benennen wir, können sie aber hier nicht weiter ausführen. Die theoretischen Begründungen,

Bemerkungen zu: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Moore/Patel) – (1)

NATURE/SOCIETY & THE VIOLENCE OF REAL ABSTRACTION

Among Nature/Society dualism’s essential features is the tendency to circumscribe truth-claims by drawing hard-and-fast lines between what is Social and what is Natural.[1] Here is a rift: an epistemic rift.[2] At its core is a series of violent abstractions implicated

NATURE/SOCIETY & THE VIOLENCE OF REAL ABSTRACTION

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Introduction)

 Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017.  … Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology, and every

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Introduction)

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