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  • 24 March 2011, 9:37 AM

    Derrick Jensen's Endgame

    by JP Hayes

    Derrick Jensen amongst the Redwoods in Northern California

    In the worldview of industrialized societies, the planet has been reduced to a resource base whose primary existence is to proffer materials that can be converted into monetary value. This all in order to propel an abstractly perverse and antiquated ideal of ‘progress’ that has left the great majority of the planet and its citizens in peril. This entanglement, which lies at the crux of most every modern crisis, is attributable perhaps firstly to our level of consciousness and more specifically to our paradigmatic frame of reference.

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  • 24 March 2011, 9:15 AM

    Capitalist Realism

    by Adam Robbert

    Capitalist Realism book cover

    Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism has been hailed by Slavoj Žižek as “simply the best diagnosis of our predicament we have!” Fisher’s book is a thorough critique and speculation upon capitalism in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the perpetually ongoing ecological devastation wrought by industrialization. For Fisher, the premise of late capitalism is described by what he terms a “business ontology,” a stark term that describes the way in which every element of our world has become enfolded within a “business reality system” that subordinates all values into the cut and press of the market.

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