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This is tomorrow! maybe c u there 👀
A provocative piece of analysis from @gfearn.bsky.social on the likely shape of the energy transition and the conflicts that really define it for @the-breakdown.bsky.social
recommended read!
NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism".
"The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."
www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!)
www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
"Who has an interest in claiming a peak is nigh, or too high to reach? If the peak occurs, how fast will the descent be, and where is the bottom of the mountain?"
New this week @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
@noahjgordon.bsky.social writes on the politics of promises
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
The story of climate action is one of peaks—promised, assumed, or still to come. But who, and what, do those peaks ultimately serve?
My first essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social !
Thx @johnmerrick.bsky.social & @adriennebuller.bsky.social
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
Hope is not a policy, nor is “innovation” a magic trick. As our podcast of the week argues, the idea that climate salvation will come through breakthrough technologies is a myth that serves as an alibi for inaction.
With @davidedgerton.bsky.social on @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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Those British workers paying exorbitant interest on their student loans should get behind usury - and condemn the sinners - both public and private - extracting their wealth, effortlessly.
This interview makes wonderful critiques of the nostalgia and "retro"-ness embedded in conservative and reactionary futurism. And a good corrective to our understanding of capital-intensive innovation. Made me really excited for Edgerton's next book on the history of production.
"Keynes was very clear: that's the great sin of usury . And i want that sin of usury to come back again."
Political economist Ann Pettifor on the power of finance and how Wall Street gambles with people and the planet
www.break-down.org/how-wall-st-...
Also available wherever you get your podcasts / via our website:
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and if you don't use any of those platforms shoot me a DM and I can share the audio file.
This week for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I spoke to the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social about finance and the climate crisis—we covered everything from bond vigilantes to Keynes's legacy and bringing back usury as a sin 😉
Give it a listen below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...
Hahah well I am glad there is something to cut through the misery - it's not all terrible I promise! Thanks for reading :)
I'll be in conversation with @annpettifor.bsky.social in a few weeks at Foyles on all things finance!
Hopefully see some of you there - and look out for our interview with Ann @the-breakdown.bsky.social this Thursday 👀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-global...
Stuart Hall wrote little about the environment, but his thought remains extraordinarily useful for anyone interested in a left politics that has something to say about today’s ecological crises.
Something in the latest LRB. It's not the cheeriest of pieces but I hope some find it worthwhile. Thanks for reading.
It's probably not about minerals. Wrote about Greenland, shipping lanes and the political work that all this arctic speculation is doing over at @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/after-the-th...
Loved listening to this episode. Includes some really poignant commentary on the “impoverished position” of projecting all our hopes onto AI as a viable future-making technology.
"So there's no way back. Nostalgia just leads to suggesting that most of the world population can't be supported."
Historian David Edgerton on the history of technology
www.break-down.org/technology-a...
"Criminalisation and repression should be read as features of a carbon-intensive political and economic settlement rather than episodic excess...From a Gramscian perspective, the observed repertoire of repression is integral to the reproduction of hegemony."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
a very brilliant piece!
I have an essay in The BREAK-DOWN: "Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame" - go subscribe (it's free) and read it (and all the other great stuff that's already there 🔥)!
"The bog, once the terrain of anti-colonial struggle, now plays host to vast swathes of global fibre-optic cables and server halls."
ROISIN AGNEW writes on the data centre takeover of Ireland’s peat bogs for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇
"As old systems fail...the question that matters is how we live in the shadow of collapse, and what forms of care, solidarity and resistance can emerge."
Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇
As a "fun" @the-breakdown.bsky.social shot/chaser to the KSR episode, this from atmospheric scientist Sofia Menemenlis is really excellent, from our second issue
www.break-down.org/the-sunlight...
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
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