In this episode of Urban Nature, Jason W. Moore and Gabriel Kozlowski discuss the concepts of nature, capitalism, and the web of life from the perspective of social construction, relations of power, and Modernity’s dualism. Moore argues that one of the most fundamental problems of Western civilization, both intellectually and politically, is the splitting between society and nature; that this binary is a form of violence that generates conditions of inequality and oppression while maintaining the hegemonic structures intact.
“The world historical existence of capital comes out of a metabolism of the labor process that is at once natural and social and has that double character.” – Jason W. Moore, Environmental Historian and Professor of Sociology
“So much of Marxist ecology has in common with mainstream environmentalism the idea that what capitalism does is destroy nature.” – Jason W. Moore, Environmental Historian and Professor of Sociology
“The Anthropocene emerges at a particular time to manufacture the first intellectual and technocratic consent around a new climate regime that essentially allows for atmospheric carbonization to skyrocket.” –– Jason W. Moore, Environmental Historian and Professor of Sociology