Malm 2016
From Commonplace Book
Malm, Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. London: Verso, 2016. Print.
Seminar Notes 5.5.16 (Taylor Anthroposcene)
- Global warming is the unintended consequence par excellence
- Slow violence
- Fossil capitalism – 1825
- What lessons can we take to go forward – the flow (Jason Moore?) – how do we get back to it?
- Impediments are social and economic not technological
- Water power capitalism didn’t work because the capitalists had to get along – coal and steam are more competitive
- Malm is anti-anthroposcene because it is leveling in terms of blame on capitalism (capitaloscene)
- P. 9 – “the final falling in of history on the present,” “the tyranny of the past”
- If this is true and you’re trying to intervene, you have to do it historically
- How can it just be capitalism when humans created capitalism? Does the species question do productive work here?
