The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures

This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history. Planetary warming and climate change are, therefore, unfolding rapidly. This enveloping process is driven forward by the mutual ruptures of a deteriorating earth system and fossil based global capitalism, as a fraught socioecological totality. Overlapping crises of time are the net result. They involve, the recurring, myopic volatility of financialised capitalism, the ecological impossibility of sustaining capitalist growth, the spreading arrhythmias of biotic, animal, bird, insect and marine life and the irremediable psychological stresses of climate change anxiety. The time crises of global capitalism originate from certain disjunctures of time associated with carbon extractivism, carbon emission markets and official climate change projections. The book sets out the counter constructions of time necessary to energise the climate justice movement and advance ecosocialist principles.

Shows that materialisations of epochality, time reckoning, temporality, and coevalness are enmeshed with earth system Explores different scenarios arising from the possible ruptures Written by an expert in the field

Autorentext

Wayne Hope is Professor of Communication at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Time and Society and Triple C: Capitalism, Communication and Critique. He is joint editor of the Political Economy of Communication journal.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Time, Earth and Globality.- Part I. The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Epochality.- 2. Predicaments of Time.- 3. Convergent Epochs.- 4. Epochal Crises of Time.- Part II. Fossil-Based Global Capitalism: Disjunctures of Time.- 5. Times of Earth, Capital and Carbon Extractivism.- 6. Time, Carbon Emissions and Commodification.- 7. Futurity and Global Warming Climate Change.- Part III. Collective Action, Time Epistemes and New Global Futures.- 8. Climate Justice Activism and Counter Constructions of Time.- 9. Time Principles of Eco-Socialism: A Declaration.