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For the curious, you can find the introduction to #7cheapthings, in several languages, here: https://t.co/3VIGEWpxwN #capitalocene Our perspective, #worldecology, pivots on class struggle in the web of life.
Western languages -- and academic vocabularies especially -- have many, many words for "degradation." But none for the generative, creative & multilayered pulse of lifemaking: the oikeios. See esp. A History of the World in #7cheapthings. #worldecology
De acuerdo Xitlalic, es el Oikeios propuesto por @oikeios. Es una matriz clave desde donde debe arrancar el análisis de la ecología-mundo capitalista. Nos permite ver a la naturaleza (humana y extrahumana) no como compartimentos separados, sino como un continuo flujo de flujos.
Thanks Heather! Introduction to our #7cheapthings (and other essays) can be found here: https://t.co/3VIGEWpxwN #worldecology #capitaloceno #capitalocene
“Great historical transitions occur because ‘business as usual’ no longer works. The powerful have a way of sticking to time-honored strategies even when the reality is radically changing.” (Patel and Moore, 2018)
Lots of food for thought here. #Capitalocene
@_RajPatel
For those curious about the book #7cheapthings, you can find the introduction here: https://t.co/3VIGEWpxwN
#worldecology #capitaloceno #capitalocene
"@_RajPatel & Jason Moore (@oikeios) have transformed ‘cheapness’ into a brilliant and original lens that helps us understand the pressing crises of our time, from hyper-exploitation of labor to climate change."- @NaomiAKlein
A brilliant innovative book.
https://t.co/S0m6DiY4OM
@holoentropic @OmarMontoyaSua1 @_RajPatel Probably worth noting that #7cheapthings is a narrative strategy. The long cycle of politically-conditioned accumulation around #cheapnature and the Four Cheaps is the analytical premise. #worldecology
I think Raj Patel and Jason Moore's book Seven Cheap Things makes the same point - that the cheapness of resources in capitalism (cheapening of the lives of workers, cheapness of fossil fuels relative to the energy it contains) comes with a hidden cost, a sting in the tail.
@GeorgeMonbiot Much gratitude to @GeorgeMonbiot. For the curious, you can access these and other essays here: https://t.co/cLBvnm7LH0 Popular essays and in the translation available too! #worldecology #7cheapthings
@radicalecology @ZozanP Very important. The Capitalocene is premised on militarized accumulation as @_RajPatel and I argued in #7cheapthings and as John Antonacci @gonzosociology is investigating. #worldecology #capitalocene
Just read @PriyaSatia's excellent Empire of Guns (thx for rec, @GhoshAmitav). Wish it had been out before @oikeios and I finished #7CheapThings; we could have used this terrific history to bolster our argument about cycles of war, money and war.
Published in 2018:
industrial food production is a breeding ground for pandemic disease .. the kind of concentrated animal-feeding operations that bring us cheap meat will also bring viruses that could decimate the human population
@oikeios @_RajPatel
https://t.co/FbQd5QtKT0
Third, pretending that the book does not have a concrete class analysis doesn't wash -- class concepts appear (again) 100's of times. The negative-value hypothesis is precisely an argument about the changing terrain of class struggle in the climate crisis. See also #7cheapthings
@RutElliotB @kolinjivadi @a_vansi @DianaVelaA And it's not like I ever write for wider audiences... oh wait! #7cheapthings :)
Online Townhall: Sat. May 9, 2pm (PDT), 5pm (EDT): Raj Patel will discuss the causes and enormous impact of the global food crisis, which has only been intensified by the #Covid19 pandemic. @_RajPatel #7CheapThings https://t.co/CVfsXyF2sB
https://t.co/mZhjm3R2R3
“Footprint thinking teaches us to consider the drivers of planetary crisis as grounded in the aggressions of “people” and “consumption” rather than in systemic dynamics of capitalism and empire.” - @oikeios @_RajPatel
@oikeios & @_RajPatel THANK YOU for A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things! I found it an extremely accessible and helpful way to think about the history capitalism and a way to see hope on the horizon!
Sharp, concise interview (in English) with my friend and co-author, Raj Patel #worldecology #7cheapthings #capitalocene
https://t.co/94g05F76ls
@njoroge_bw The #capitalocene thesis emerged in part out of my environmental history of plantation agriculture, summarized in #7cheapthings with Raj Patel. #plantationocene seems committed to avoiding the the origins of capitalism as a racialized/gendered dynamic of cheapening.
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