ecology
The Science and Politics of our Ecological Crisis
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYA Marxist approach will be taken to explain the origins of modern science as a cultural production of our socio-economic system, in order to examine the roots of our ecological crisis.
Ecology, Justice and Revolution in Pope Francis’s ‘Laudato Si’”
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWe will undertake a close reading of “Laudato Si” supplemented by selected readings in liberation theology, the movement from the Global South combining Christian principles and Marxist praxis that is a major influence on “Laudato Si.”
Marxism, Science and The Anthropocene
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYOur studies address the nexus of capitalism, science, threats to human existence on planet Earth, and the fight for climate justice and ecosocialism.
Integrating Social and Natural Systems
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...this course will focus on key concepts in Earth system science (water, air, soil, and life) and systems thinking. Gaining a perspective of how we exist in the natural world even in built environments influences the framing of questions and then how these questions might be answered in order to understand ways we can become sustainable and resilient societies.
Creating An Ecological Society
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynWith Fred Magdoff —co-author with Chris Williams of the new book Creating an Ecological Society, which assesses how capitalism is destabilizing Earth’s climate and envisions a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable.
No Blood for Oil!
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIn his book George Caffentzis shows how Marxism accounts for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism as generator of ecological devastation, war and exploitation.
Science, Politics, and Culture in the Anthropocene
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...taking the measure of industrialization and commodification, which have derailed the Earth beyond the stable parameters of the Holocene, and of the need to give our freedom different material foundations; it means mobilizing new environmental humanities and new political radicalisms (movements for common goods, transition, degrowth, eco-socialism and many more) in order to escape the blind alleys of industrial modernity.
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYBringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Moore and Patel demonstrate that throughout the history of capitalism, crises have always prompted fresh efforts to restore the seven cheap things.
Small Is Necessary
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis new book advocates not only for smaller dwellings in compact settlements but for shared spaces and facilities. Anitra presents a range of practical options from co-living in a household to co-housing and eco-villages. DUE TO A GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION, THIS IS NOW A FREE EVENT!
Capital, Energy and Power
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe crises associated with climate change are rooted in capital’s insatiable need to burn fuels in order to accumulate wealth and maximize profits. This study group will explore the history and political economy of oil, energy and capitalism.
Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin us for a close reading of Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory which shows how different historical regimes of capitalism have relied on institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature. Interaction between these domains is periodically readjusted in response to crises and upheavals.
Ecology, Capital and History
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin us for a close reading of Jason W. Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life. Using Moore's world-ecology framework, we will rethink the history of capitalism as a dialectic in which wealth, power, and nature interact to produce recurring crises - including today's troubling nexus of global warming, mass extinction, and the exceeding of planetary boundaries.
Climate Justice and Socialist Strategy with Jason W. Moore
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Jason W. Moore addresses the missed opportunity for a program of planetary justice as the “Environmentalism of the Rich” came to the fore after 1968 and overshadowed Martin Luther King, Jr.’s appeal for radical action against capitalism’s “triple evils” of racism, militarism, and class exploitation. As King underscored in his final months, justice cannot be effectively pursued piece by piece. The “whole society” with and within the web of life must be reinvented, inasmuch as we are “all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”