{"product_id":"anthropocene-or-capitalocene-nature-history-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism-9781629631486","title":"Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans--all point toward 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnthropocene or Capitalocene?\u003c\/em\u003e offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars. They challenge the theory and history offered by the most significant environmental concept of our times: the Anthropocene. But are we living in the Anthropocene, literally the \"Age of Man\"? Is a different response more compelling, and better suited to the strange--and often terrifying--times in which we live? The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the twenty-first century are rooted in the Capitalocene, the Age of Capital.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnthropocene or Capitalocene?\u003c\/em\u003e offers a series of provocative essays on nature and power, humanity, and capitalism. Including both well-established voices and younger scholars, the book challenges the conventional practice of dividing historical change and contemporary reality into \"Nature\" and \"Society,\" demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced and connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities for transcending capitalism, broadly understood as a \"world-ecology\" that joins nature, capital, and power as a historically evolving whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include Jason W. Moore, Eileen Crist, Donna J. Haraway, Justin McBrien, Elmar Altvater, Daniel Hartley, and Christian Parenti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason W. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCapitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eElmar Altvate\u003c\/b\u003er is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Market: An Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature after the Collapse of 'Actually Existing Socialism.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eEileen C. Crist\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eImages of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eDaniel Hartley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Style: Marxist Poetics in and beyond Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eChristian Parenti\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50516156088594,"sku":"9781629631486","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f56717bd-a6d6-438f-b772-c7c11847c3d7.jpg?v=1731020288","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anthropocene-or-capitalocene-nature-history-and-the-crisis-of-capitalism-9781629631486","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}