The Historical Nature of Resources

The dialectic of an abstract nature and abstract labor is at the heart of those historical natures that are cause consequence and unfolding condition of world accumulation. The journey from geology to geo history necessitates a historical method that grasps the material symbolic formation of power in human organization. To move beyond the fetish, we may view resources as bundles of relations rather than geobiological properties as such without denying these properties. Thus, a world ecological view of say Coles agency since 1800 allows us to distinguish the geology of coal from Coles geo history to discern geological from historical facts.