The Banality of the Anthropocene – Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us, transl. by David Fernbach (New…
The Capitalocene, Part II: Abstract Social Nature and the Limits to Capital
This essay builds out an argument for understanding the past five centuries as the Capitalocene, the “age of capital.” The present essay – the second…
Jason W. Moore — “To Make Ourselves the Masters and Possessors of Nature”: Dutch Capitalism and the World-Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century
Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century’s “distinct, but mutually formative” crises of capitalism and ecology. On October 7, Jason W. Moore delivered the…
Unearthing the Capitalocene: Towards a Reparations Ecology
Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology and every other facet of the modern world have unfolded within a long era of climatic good fortune. Those…
The Capitalocene Part I: On the Nature & Origins of Our Ecological Crisis
This essay, in two parts, argues for the centrality of historical thinking in coming to grips with capitalism’s planetary crises of the twenty-first century. Against…
The Capitalocene and Planetary Justice
Who is responsible for the climate crisis? For everyone who isn’t a climate denialist, there’s an easy answer to the question: humanity. Who, in their…