Posts tagged: climate-change

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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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  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.
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  “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

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  The New Inquiry reviews Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm

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  Steffen Böhm: The Paris Climate Talks and other Events of Carbon Fetishism

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  "Hunger and poverty are inseparable" - an extract from David Rieff's The Reproach of Hunger