Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. Today’s guest says “No!” in thunder. In The Unconstructable Earth (Fordham) Frédéric Neyrat proposes an “ecology of separation” that acknowledges …
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Interchange – The Legacy of C. L. R. James
Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the center of revolutionary politics and theory in the 20th century; a one-time Trotskyist and fully informed by a study of Marx, James’s greatest work extends from beyond the boundaries of politics and reaches into an attention to …
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