Jason W. Moore – författare

Finance. Climate. Food. Class. How are the crises-and politics-of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing planetary life. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of power, profit, and life.

The Earth has reached a tipping point and we are entering an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity's relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions. The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the 21st century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital.

Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today''s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism''s greatest strength-and the source of its problems-is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature-rather than capitalism and nature-is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today''s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Wir sind in einem Zeitalter angekommen, in dem der Mensch verschwinden könnte – und mit ihm die Welt, die er so gnadenlos ausbeutet. Denn was ist heute für uns nicht billig und schnell zu haben – auf Kosten der vielen Menschen, die weniger privilegiert sind als wir? Wir ruinieren unsere Erde, wenn wir nicht schleunigst kooperative Wege des Zusammenlebens und Wirtschaftens finden und den westlichen Raubtierkapitalismus bändigen. Das ist die Botschaft des Ökonomen Raj Patel und des Historikers Jason W. Moore. In sieben Kapiteln widmen sie sich jeweils einem Aspekt dieser Entwertung der Welt: Natur wird ebenso entwertet wie Geld, Arbeit, Pflege, Nahrung, Energie und Leben. So eindrücklich wie umfassend schildern sie, dass die Krisen unserer Zeit in Wirklichkeit eine einzige Krise sind und dass diese einen langen Vorlauf in der Geschichte hat. Wenn heute billige Arbeitskräfte billige Chlorhühnchen zu billigen Chickenwings verarbeiten, dann ist das, wie sie exemplarisch schildern, ein zerstörerisches Wirtschaftsprinzip, das sich über Jahrhunderte herausgebildet hat.Patel und Moore führen vor Augen, dass es an der Zeit ist, diese Entwicklung zu durchbrechen und unser Wirtschafts- und Sozialsystem anders zu denken, wenn wir unsere Welt verstehen und damit bewahren wollen.