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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Tsing traces the rhythms of disturbance-based ecologies through the biological and economic lives of matsutake mushrooms. Attending to the fortuitous multispecies assemblages of lifeforms and lifeways that arise within the ruins of capitalist…
Tags: capitalism, climate, ecocritique, ecology, environment, In-between
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Less a single coherent argument than a series of meditations, this book introduces many of the concepts that would become foundational to Marxist thought and critical theory, more generally, including alienation, exploitation, and dialectical…
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Perhaps the most canonical work of Marxist critical theory in the twentieth century, Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment investigates how the project of the Enlightenment transforms into a logic of domination and instrumentalization in…
Tags: capitalism, critical theory, Marxism, materialism, myth, philosophy, psychoanalysis
"The Climate of History: Four Theses."
This article argues that the thesis of the Anthropocene offers grounds for a reconciliation between human history and natural history, abolishing the Enlightenment ideology of history as the progressive conquest of nature by Man. Drawing on research…
Tags: Anthropocene, capitalism, climate, ecology, materialism
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Written from a Marxist perspective, this book examines the emergence of capitalist modernity in terms of the extraction of natural resources. It analyzes the ways in which the Enlightenment ideology of history as progress depends on reducing "Nature"…
Tags: Anthropocene, capitalism, climate, ecology, materialism
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