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Posts tagged: climate-change
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On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene
How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of critical appreciations, McKenzie Wark writes about the novelist Amitav Ghosh's influential lectures on "the great derangement."
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Video: Jason W. Moore – Our Capitalogenic World: Humanity, Nature, and the Making of a Planetary Crisis
Charting the development of capitalism as a “world-ecology,” understood as a system of power, capital, and nature, Moore shows how the planetary crisis today cannot be adequately understood as a conflict of “humans” and “nature.”
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The Global Climate Crisis and Capitalism: A Reading List
A climate crisis reading list featuring George Monbiot, Reece Jones, Jason Moore, Heather Rogers and more.
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A Joint and a Compass: Razmig Keucheyan on political theory today
There is a famous line in Lenin saying that "without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." That is a very profound phrase. Theory serves for two things: to join together struggles that are apparently unrelated, and also as a compass in periods of crisis. It is what tells you whether in this precise moment you should be smashing up banks or standing in elections.
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The Common Thread of Pessimism: Razmig Keucheyan on contemporary critical theory
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Trump Eats the Planet
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Socialism or Whole Foods: Luxemburgian Answers to Our Climate Crisis
Leftists need to counter the vision of ever-more-consumption, upon which capitalism depends, with a different account of what constitutes quality of life. -
“A novel of existential dread” — an extract from The Lamentations of Zeno
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A Natural History of Destruction: The Environmental Consequences of War
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"The tradition of the dead is breathing down the necks of the living" -Andreas Malm on climate change
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Searching for the Origins of the Fossil Economy
