"without energy supply, labour is a corpse and capital a sculpture" ~ Steve Keen
in this sense it is crucial to consider sociometabolic constraints as central to the understanding of crises
Artículo sobre la duración, problemas y coyuntura de la actual onda larga de acumulación, desarrollando el marco de E. Mandel: "The Long Duration of the Ongoing Wave of Accumulation. An Update of Ernest Mandel’s Model in the Era of State Neoliberalism"
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Degrowth scholar-activist Federico Savini offers some great insights into the current strategies & challenges facing degrowth today, on my 'Frontiers of Commoning' podcast: tinyurl.com/2s364jw6. Blog post: tinyurl.com/5a5vyc3z
Podría ser una noticia del Mundo Today, pero no lo es.
Empresas de la industria militar comprando acero descarbonizado.
Volkswagen ofreciendo sus fábricas cerradas para producir misiles israelíes. Reinmetall y SSAB fabricando tanques con acero verde.
Europa como faro moral climático, desde luego.
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Power, Knowledge and Technology in a Finite World ~ Valeria Cirillo et al
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The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes
~ Michael Ekers & Scott Prudham
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David Harvey and the ever-changing contours of capitalism ~ Michael Roberts
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Notes on TRPF, overproduction and the current sociometabolic crisis of Neoliberalism: drive.proton.me/urls/V7K198K...
A thread of related articles below
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Europe’s steel industry is in crisis — jobs at risk, decarbonization delayed. Our new study, co-produced with @communiade.bsky.social, argues: subsidies aren’t enough. It’s time for public ownership and democratic planning to secure jobs and drive a just green transition:
Pourquoi travaillons nous ? Je tente de répondre à cette question que nous nous posons toutes et tous dans cet ouvrage sorti cette semaine. Bonne lecture !
RIOS AMAZÔNICOS: A DIMENSÃO REAL DA VITÓRIA
História de uma luta em curso. Como o movimento indígena ganhou corpo, agência e repercussão ao se opor ao projeto Arco Norte, que reduz Amazônia a fronteira de agroexportação. Por que defende, além do território, sua singularidade cultural e linguística
Victoria ecologista galega. La Xunta de Galicia ha dado carpetazo definitivo al polémico proyecto de macrocelulosa que la multinacional papelera Altri y la eléctrica Greenalia querían instaurar en el municipio de Palas de Rei (Lugo), al denegar la Autorización Ambiental Integrada al plan […]
Everyone with any sense can see there are critical shortages of basic things like housing, sanitation systems, healthcare, public transit, etc.
In reality, degrowth proceeds from the position that there is already more than enough *productive capacity*.
PhD Position at Roskilde University - indigenous rights, green transition in the arctic. Great colleagues! Feel free to share. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
It was a pleasure to present recent advances in my research at the EPOG-DN workshop at Università di Pisa. The event was market by captivating contributions exploring different perspectives on the notion of bifurcation. Greatful for the exchange of ideas and inspiration!
Lower-income countries need to come together to collectively repudiate debts.
Important article by Farwa Sial, @jasonhickel.bsky.social & Ndongo Samba Sylla on why "it is the “debt system” itself, as an exploitative system, that must be dismantled."
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K.Kapp, who coined cost shifting, argued that it is not only a product of private market but more generally of competitive social structures. Even under planning, eco-imperialist competition intensifies due to the materiality of technological mass production. some costs are also incommensurable
muy buena respuesta de Maurizio Lazzarato :
"¿Cómo conseguir que el gasto público no se traduzca en un aumento del empleo, del consumo y de los salarios y, por lo tanto, en la fuerza política del proletariado?"
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further info on cost- and problem-shifting here - eeb.org/en/library/d...
Even in the utopian case where–under current conditions of heightened imperialism–social relations rapidly shift in favor of redirecting technology towards social needs, wouldn't cost/problem-shifting still be an issue? I get the need of conveying popular optimism but doesn't justify this omission
Se armar para salvar o capitalismo financeiro!
Por Maurizio Lazzarato
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With the politics of monetary policy much in the news, this is a great new piece by the always excellent Jeremy Green on the hidden importance of gold supply from Apartheid South Africa to Bretton Woods and postwar international monetary stability
La verdad es que los datos lo muestran con claridad. Aquí un artículo relacionandolo con el análisis de Kalecki sobre el pleno empleo. Es increíble lo acertado que fue. Crees que su análisis del rearme también tiene vigencia hoy?
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