Day 25: Thomas Elliott Responds to Lesley Green, “The Changing of the Gods of Reason”
“This grave and radically unprecedented ‘planetary crisis’ is the direct result of capitalist accumulation, which is the antagonistic grounding condition of the global phenomenon of conflicting postmodern carbon-modernities (structuring the inescapable feedback loop of global climate change). The crisis isn’t tied to human being-there as such, but instead the global autotelic nihilism of neoliberal capitalism’s ‘infinite growth’ and the history of industrial capital’s inherently colonialist ‘increase in energy usage, deforestation, and changing land use.’ (Vlachou, 2000) Shouldn’t the nomination for the catastrophic evental epoch of global climate change be ‘capitalo’ rather than ‘anthropo’ for critical usage? How could human beings decolonize their minds when neoliberalism radically structures human identities and the seemingly bleak future of organic life on Earth? In the absence of remediation of the geological-agental consequences of the nihilistic cycle of consumption and pollution upon which capitalocentrism utterly depends, how could new worlds emerge? Is it enough to spirit away statues, or is something more radical demanded?”
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