Envtalism ≠ Nature ≠ ecologies. Try class, the state, spirit, situated efficiencies, public health, justice, power, power, power and mutual flourishing.
May 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thread on the interpenetration of opposites. 0/4
For me, the most obvious interpenetration of opposites in Marx lies in social metabolic relations, in labor processes where the sensuous external world and cooperative forms of human labor produce, reproduce and transform one another. 1/4
Apr 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
@oikeios@KaiHeron Reading "How to Read..." I am reminded how much I adore oikeois and struggle with Nature. The earth, home - where we metabolically reworked (and rework) ourselves and it - pre-exists us. Nature is produced, essentializing/othering aspects of home/community.
Ideas and ideologies of N/nature are always too social, too complex, too layered, too indeterminate, too implicit, too unstable, too contested, too manipulative, too underspecified, too little, too social, too scientistic, too essentialist, too often immaterially abstracted...
Mar 12, 2021 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
#Alienation#Marx - Land, Laborpower, Means of Production, Productive Self-Activity, the Product, Other People, Social Space, Species Being 1/
I am presenting my students with the 8 early moments and initial forms of alienation Marx materially abstracts from the emergence & reality of late 19th C capitalism. I started with alienation from the land forcing people-now-proletarianized to alienate their labor power. /2
Mar 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/6 [T]here is a general awareness of the fact that what constitutes environmental sociology and separates it off from other topic areas is almost wholly a matter of convenience, ( #environmentalsociology )
2/6 but at the same time there has been some confusion over whether a sociologically meaningful definition of ‘the environment’ is either possible or desirable. (troping Howard Newby, 1980, 5 on rural sociology - APR)
