![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They exist only in particular historical forms of society, defined by distinct regimes of social property relations that imply different dispositions towards ‘extra-human nature’. Its defect, as Moore sees it, is to present humanity as a ‘homogeneous acting unit’, when in fact human beings are never to be found in a generic state. Jason Moore in Capitalism in the Web of Life and Andreas Malm in Fossil Capital have overlapping criticisms of what Moore calls ‘the Anthropocene argument’. However, as Benjamin Kunkel explains, “t wo of the most formidable contributions so far to the literature of the Anthropocene come from authors who reject the term.” Much of the discussion right now concerns the Anthropocene, the idea that the current geological age-overlapping with or, increasingly, after the Holocene-is a period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. ![]() The debate about our ecological predicament is heating up and, as it turns out, the Marxian critique of political economy is at the center of that debate. ![]()
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