Samuel Day Fassbinder || Post-Cartesian research in the social sciences, research which hopes to overcome the separation between “people” and “nature” in favor of world-ecological views of human existence, has greatly enhanced our critique of capitalism. Much of history, and of historical theory, is made to tell a story which (as Jason W. Moore puts it) puts society in one box and nature in another. Post-Cartesian research, by contrast, tells the story of the “Capitalocene,” that era of natural history dominated by capitalism. Indeed the story of the Capitalocene is the story of the rich few and the appropriated working class, as well as the story of depletion and pollution caused by capitalist industry. The question for post-Cartesian theory is how the two stories are interconnected.

Fassbinder, S. D. (2016). Telling Capitalist World-Ecology in the History of Commodities. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 27(1), 126-131.

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