Jason W. Moore: Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Jason W. Moore speaks about why the Anthropocene is perhaps better conceptualised as the Capitalocene.
This video interview was conducted by Felipe Milanez and Jonah Wedekind at Entitle's Summer School at Bogazici University, June 2015. www.politicalec....
For the other parts of this interview, check: www.entitleblog.org
I like this concept “capitalocene” and try to understand it better (reading - with some difficulty - his two recent articles on the subject). I just wonder if this separation of human vs nature wasn’t always present in the ideology of the feudal lords and land lords. They looked at their subjects, in particular the peasants, as some piece of nature that they owned, just like a bunch of work horses. They did not have to put a price on a worker in the sense of wages - the peasants were simply part of the land and had to deliver goods in return for some protection perhaps from rival landlords and marauding soldiers etc. So there wasn’t a concept of value expressed as monetary measure with regards to the subjects. Isn’t it appropriate to think that a value theory and commodification comes when money plays a much bigger role in all relations between people. It looks to me then as if there was always a little bit of that capitalism all along, and only when most processes of transfer of food, materials, and produced goods where accompanied by the exchange and accumulation of money, and that becomes capitalism as we know it.
the capitalism is in a way the industralisation of this way of thinking.
At the Medieval scale, it wouldn't destroy the environment and the means of production like it does now
Me too!
Capitalist accumulation and domination not only arrogates nature and "the other" but inscribes its own processes and means "as if" they were themselves a part, the most essential , vital component of the 'Natural' order themselves.
This is the mechanism of conservatism (with exceptions) since R. Reagan, until...
Thank you for the interview
Super clear and helpful--thanks!!
Capitalism is founded on the unlimited wants of human beings. But it may not be desirable or in fact be catastrophic because of the technological progress.
It all started 2000 years ago
That’s when a philosophy came into the world. Three hundred years later, the rulers of the Roman Empire recognized that the subservience of this philosophy made it easier to control their people. On 27 March 380, it was therefore made the state religion. Later this religion would be called Christianity. Symbolic seed capital of their state religion: 1 US-Dollar.
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Subservience is also the guarantee that subsequently nobody will dare touching this capital that will be continuously increasing in the future. And Christians have been arming themselves against the unbelievers. Today more than ever before. The unbelievers are also arming themselves, out of self-defense.
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And then, the Roman Empire collapsed. But only the Empire collapsed, not the capital of its religion. This capital is preserved. Later it is taken over by the “Holy Roman Empire” that considers itself as the successor of the Roman Empire. However, this Empire also collapsed, while the capital of its religion is preserved. Parts of the Roman Empire as well as the Holy Roman Empire were merged with their religion already before their collapse, and their capital was therefore also preserved in their religion. And over time, it became the largest empire of all times.
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How large is the capital of the largest empire of all times today, and who owns it?
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capitalocene.com
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Your link doesn't know how to do math.
$1.9 Trillion divided by 8 billion people is NOT $238 million per person, it's $237.50
"modern" humans have been here for at least 40 thousand years. Philosophy has existed at least as long as that. Christianity was about helping people, forming communes & meeting each others' needs. The Roman state found that a hindrance in keeping people in line & killed Jesus. A few centuries later Roman state co-opted Christianity & mutated it. Just like environmentalism has been co-opted by oil companies.
Thanks for the video !!