Anthropocene Or Capitalocene

Author : Jason W. Moore
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629632570
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropocene or Capitalocene? written by Jason W. Moore and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars. They challenge the theory and history offered by the most significant environmental concept of our times: the Anthropocene. But are we living in the Anthropocene, literally the “Age of Man”? Is a different response more compelling, and better suited to the strange—and often terrifying—times in which we live? The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the twenty-first century are rooted in the Capitalocene, the Age of Capital. Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers a series of provocative essays on nature and power, humanity, and capitalism. Including both well-established voices and younger scholars, the book challenges the conventional practice of dividing historical change and contemporary reality into “Nature” and “Society,” demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced and connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities for transcending capitalism, broadly understood as a “world-ecology” that joins nature, capital, and power as a historically evolving whole. Contributors include Jason W. Moore, Eileen Crist, Donna J. Haraway, Justin McBrien, Elmar Altvater, Daniel Hartley, and Christian Parenti.

Author : Jason W. Moore
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689032
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism in the Web of Life written by Jason W. Moore and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism's greatest strength-and the source of its problems-is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature-rather than capitalism and nature-is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.

Author : Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642416020
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, International Transactions and the Anthropocene written by Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in the last 25 years. Achieving a new understanding of sustainability transition in the Anthropocene requires a deeper analysis on culture. The development of new positions of international institutions, national governments, scientific organizations, private fora and civil society movements on culture and nature shows how global transactions must take place in a rapidly transforming world. In her book the author provides a multi-situated ethnography of live debates on culture, global environmental change, development and diversity directly recorded by the author as a participating and decision-making anthropologist from 1988 to 2016. She examines the politicization and internationalization of culture by recognizing, negotiating and diversifying views on cultures and re-thinking culture in the Anthropocene. The merging of science and policy in taking up cultural and natural challenges in the Anthropocene is discussed.

Author : jan jagodzinski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319787470
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating the Anthropocene written by jan jagodzinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geoperformativity, and glitch aesthetics. The first section attempts to flesh out new aspects of current debates. Questions over the Capitaloscene are explored via conflations of class and climate, revisiting the eco-Marxist analysis of capitalism, and the financial system that thrives on debt. The second section explores the imaginary narratives that raise questions regarding non-human involvement. The third section addresses ’geoartisty,’ the counter artistic responses to the speculariztion of climate disasters, questioning eco-documentaries, and what a post-anthropocentric art might look like. The last section addresses the pedagogical response to the Anthropocene.

Author : Matthew C. Ally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638691
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthly Engagements written by Matthew C. Ally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre's thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism"--

Author : Maria Paula Diogo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351170236
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene written by Maria Paula Diogo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836666
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Human written by Sherryl Vint and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

Author : Brett Clark
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839826800
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capitalist Commodification of Animals written by Brett Clark and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers analysis regarding the historical transformations in the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman animals, alienated speciesism, the ecological crisis that is undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the capitalist commodification of animals that results in suffering, death, and profits.

Author : Fátima Alves
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832504523
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Society written by Fátima Alves and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Grear
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1953035094
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Awakening written by Anna Grear and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: