"That the #Anthropocene, at its core, is a fundamentally bourgeois concept should surprise no one. After all, it tells us that behind the current, disastrous state of world affairs is the #Anthropos. It’sa trick ...
researchgate.net/publication/26… #history #capitalism #ideology
researchgate.net/publication/26… #history #capitalism #ideology
... as old as #modernity – the rich and powerful create #problems for all of us, then tell us we’re all to blame. But are we? And just who, in any case, is ‘#we’?"
"The #Anthropocene concept has graced the cover of The Economist magazine and received the blessing of The New York Times’ editorial board – for the very sound reason that anthropogenic arguments obscure capitalogenic realities." #Science/#Society
"#Philosophy will of course not solve the problem of #capitalism’s unfolding crisis and the contemporary, horrific, dangers to life. But it will be hard to develop a politics of #emancipation for all life without a philosophical commitment to precisely that: ...
... emancipating all life. And an authentically multi-species politics of emancipation will require – and will need to nurture – ways of thinking that connect first, and separate later." #systemism
"Our #reality is one in which humans live in peculiar kind of #civilization, capitalism. #Capitalism is absurd in all sorts of ways. In the terms of this discussion, one absurdity is especially powerful: capitalism is premised on the separation of #Humanity and #Nature. ...
... The whole thrust of capitalist civilization develops the premise that we inhabit something called #Society, and act upon something called #Nature."
"#Capitalism’s first great remaking of planetary life ... was scarcely possible without a #revolution in ways of #thinking and seeing the world. The capitalist revolution, far from a narrowly economic process, was an epochal shift in the ways of earth-moving (mining, farming),...
... state-making, mechanization and symbolic praxis. Not for nothing, the first thing every great European #empire set about doing was not merely ‘exploring’, but #mapping and #cataloguing the globe as a potential storehouse of #wealth. In this, neither modern mapping ...
... nor even the idea of the globe can be taken for granted."
"Thinking historically is inescapable; the only question is whether we wish to take historical thinking seriously. If we wish to explain the #origins and development of #capitalism as world-ecology – crucial to understanding the politics of the twenty-first century – ...
... we need a conversation over the ways that relations of #power, #capital and #nature crystallized in the centuries after 1450."
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