
054 - The Capitalocene, with Bob Neubauer, Part 2
General Intellect Unit
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The Struggle Over the Relationship Between Human Nature and the World
The struggle over the grip of commodification is in the first instance a contest between contending visions and values of life and work. Extra human natures to resist the grim compulsions of economic equivalence. In this, capitalism's correspondence project meets up with all manners of contentious visions and resistances to create a historical process full of contradictions. The battle with weeds, a plant in the wrong place and troublesome pests is bound up with cheap nature strategies that shape the condition of world accumulation. On the one hand, as the flurry of news reports on the super weeds sweeping across the GMO soy zones of the USA revealed in 2010-11, biological nature is now appear to be evolving faster than the capacity
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