Anthropocene Or Capitalocene: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

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The Earth has reached a tipping point and we are entering an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition Anthropocene or Capitalocene offers answers to these questions. The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the 21st century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital.

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"We had best start thinking in revolutionary terms about the forces turning the world upside down if we are to put brakes on the madness. A good place to begin is this book, whose remarkable authors bring together history and theory, politics and ecology, economy and culture, to force a deep look at the origins of global transformation."
--Richard Walker, professor emeritus of geography, UC Berkeley, and author of The Capitalist Imperative, The New Social Economy, The Conquest of Bread, and The Country in the City

"We live in the Capitalocene, the contributors to this volume argue, and the urgent, frightening and hopeful consequences of this reality-check become apparent in chapters that force the reader to think. In a time when there is generally no time or space to think... we need a book like this more than ever."
--Bram Bscher, professor of sociology, Wageningen University, and author of Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

"In this pioneering volume, leading critics call for a different conceptual framework, which places global change in a new, ecologically-oriented, history of capitalism--the Capitalocene. No scholar or activist interested in the debate about the Anthropocene will want to miss this volume."
--Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, associate professor of history, University of Chicago, and author of Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

"Jason W. Moore's scope is vast, and few could pull off so ambitious an analytical achievement.... There's enough scholarship, wit and insight... for a lifetime."
--Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing

"Jason W. Moore's radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting."
--China Miville, author of The City & the City

Author Bio

Jason W. Moore is the author of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Elmar Altvater is the author of The Future of the Market: An Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature after the Collapse of 'Actually Existing Socialism.' Eileen C. Crist is the author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind. Daniel Hartley is the author of The Politics of Style: Marxist Poetics in and beyond Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson. Christian Parenti is the author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence.