"This long Malthusian cycle brewed the ideological alchemy of Good #Science and the Civilizing Project. Each moment produced new scientific and imperial regimes that simultaneously mapped, secured, and justified ever more extensive and violent...
scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/… #society
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... appropriations of unpaid #work/energy for capital. Every moment of enclosing waste (the commons) involved grand movements creating #waste on the frontiers. In this long #history of natural law, Good #Science has been mobilized not only as a “productive force” but as the...
... ideological cement for securing the “general interest”. Thus decisive ideological function for successive #class compacts between ruling strata and the scientific, administrative, and military strata ...
... – today reckoned as a professional-managerial #class – necessary for endless #accumulation (Wallerstein 1983)”
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"… That world-historical lacuna makes for more than inadequate theory. It makes for terrible politics. Our #narratives inform everything about our climate politics. Stories of #ClimateCrisis driven by too many people, too much carbon dioxides, too much consumption… these...
... favor politics starkly different from an account of the #ClimateCrisis driven by the #Capitalocene, #Wasteocene and the capitalogenic logic of death and devaluation – of laying waste. … What are the interpretive and political implications of joining waste and laying...
... waste in the #history of #capitalism? And how might the insights won from that dialectic help us re-#imagine a socialist politics of planetary transition, struggling to be born under the cultural hegemony of the #Environmentalism of the Rich?”
“How many remember Spaceship Earth, the Green super-metaphor of the 1970s? Like Spaceship Earth, the #Anthropocene and its cognates deploy Good #Science to convert the messy and contentious politics of #ClimateCrisis into techno-scientific management #problems.”
“The Popular #Anthropocene – and the broader eco-industrial complex of Green parties, #universities, government ministries, NGOs and Foundations in which it’s embedded – is a textbook case of an anti-#politics machine.”
“Let’s call that #EcoIndustrialComplex the #EnvironmentalismOfTheRich. Like Development in an earlier era, the #Anthropocene expresses imperialist class politics through superficially apolitical arguments for planetary management. It insists that the answers to the ...
... planetary crisis can be found in Good #Science and “earth-system governance” rather than a radical extension of #democracy. The #Wasteocene lays bare the bourgeois conceit that #pollution and #toxification – including atmospheric carbonization – are “environmental” ...
... consequences of inefficient economic management. The poisoning of life and land and sea, Armiero argues, is not a “bug” in an otherwise optimal operating system; it’s a feature. It’s a key consequence, and an ongoing terrain, of the worldwide class struggle in the ...
... web of life. The lineages of today’s #Environmentalism of the Rich reach deeply into the capitalist past. In stark contrast to the #Anthropocene’s flight from world #history – that past is not dead, but very much alive. It is a history of #waste: of #pollution and ...
... #toxifcation; and it’s a #history of laying waste: of imperial #power and militarized #accumulation. This dialectic animates the #Wasteocene’s world-historical logic of producing “wasted people and wasted places”. ...
... The origins of that logic are found in the rise of #capitalism during the long sixteenth century.”
"“… the #Environmentalism of the Rich and the Popular #Anthropocene as cultural formation. They are significant expressions of Fraser’s “progressive #neoliberalism” – forms of identity-reductionist, “virtue hoarding” and single-issue politics delinked from broad-based ...
... working class demands for the #democratization of investment, production, and social reproduction. Within the academy, the new Environmentalism manifested in Environmental Studies. From the outset, it was dominated by a professional-managerial logic that ‘has rendered ...
... knowledge safe for #power, thereby making it more dangerous than ever to the larger human prospect’”
"“No one has pointed out that one-third of America’s 500-plus military interventions have occurred since 1999. #Anthropocene appears in tens of thousands of scholarly articles and books. None (to my knowledge) have foregrounded the pivotal role of the American war machine, ...
... its #RegimeChange politics, and its unipolar fantasies in the drive to the planetary inferno. When this happens – that is when the sample size is big enough – we know it’s not happenstance but a designated function.”
"From its origins, as we’ve seen, post-1970 #Environmentalism has remained silent about – and therefore complicit in – America’s endless #wars and the apocalyptic practice of unipolar #hegemony. From Vietnam to Iraq to any number of “low-intensity” conflicts and ...
... counter-insurgency operations worldwide, post-1970 #Environmentalism has been silent on #neoliberalism’s horrific marriage of capital-intensive war and disposable labor, life, and landscapes. ...
... Nor is this a strictly American phenomenon. Consider the German Green Party’s recent support for massive rearmament – the greatest since the 1930s – in support of #NATO expansion.”
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