What are the politics of climate change?
Rejecting Capital in the Anthropocene
We need to seek a “rupture” with this world, any kind of “sustainability” is unthinkable.
Rejecting Capital in the Anthropocene
We need to seek a “rupture” with this world, any kind of “sustainability” is unthinkable.
Most of the included texts were prepared half a year ago, and for various reasons they’re being published late. However (sadly) what’s presented here hasn’t aged in the least. “What the Virus Said,” which got a lot of responses on this blog, Bifo, Vaneigem, and others are as fresh as ever, and paired with “Two texts regarding contact tracing applications,” Lee Jingkyoung’s submission from South Korea, they should convey a new dimension of politics.
According to Egawa Takao, the moral taught to us by the virus calamity is "dwell within nature." This is a far cry from ecological living. It's the nationwide insurrection happening in the US that's dwelling within nature, and shows us a what a politics during and possibly even after the virus calamity looks like.
There's no overemphasizing the epoch-making nature of monuments connected with slavery being destroyed and tossed out as a result of this confluence. "Civilization" itself is being destroyed along with these monuments.
Thus an unbelievable spectacle has arrived in which the state itself is halting production, consumption and exchange. Right now, society is collapsing society, civilization is collapsing civilization.
The four-month old insurrection in Hong Kong is generating a new politics. No-one can say clearly what the outcome of this conflict will be. But even if what lies ahead is a tragedy or a farce, the significance of what created it can’t be lost. What’s happening in Hong Kong is a “revolution,” its glory is in the revolution itself.