Hope Against Hope : : Writings on Ecological Crisis

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. Borders -- Introduction: Disaster Migration -- On Climate/Borders/Survival/Care/Struggle: Two Members of Out of the Woods in Conversation with BASE Magazine -- Refuges and Death-Worlds -- Infrastructure Against Borders -- A Hostile Environment -- II. Natures -- Introduction: Cyborg Ecology -- The Dangers of Reactionary Ecology -- Lies of the Land: Against and Beyond Völkisch Environmentalism -- The Political Economy of Hunger -- Contemporary Agriculture: Climate, Capital, and Cyborg Agroecology
James O'Connor's Second Contradiction of Capitalism -- Murray Bookchin's Liberatory Technics -- Organizing Nature in the Midst of Crisis: Jason W. Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life -- III. Futures -- Introduction: Toward a Regenerative Utopianism -- The Future is Kids' Stuff -- Cthulhu Plays No Role for Me -- Postcapitalist Ecology: A Comment on Inventing the Future -- IV. Strategies -- Introduction: Organizing Amidst Crisis -- Blockadia and Capitalism: Naomi Klein vs. Naomi Klein -- Climate Populism and the People's Climate March
Après moi le déluge! Fossil Fuel Abolitionism and the Carbon Bubble -- Disaster Communism: The Uses of Disaster -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Out of the Woods Collective
Climate disaster is here. Capita
We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent as ever, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crisis, longstanding, are ongoing. Hope Against Hope challenges the assumptions of both the mainstream and leftist green politics and charts a revolutionary course adequate to our times. Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation between climate change and capitalism and call for the expansion of our conceptual toolbox to organize within and against the ecological crisis characterized by deepening inequality, rising far-right movements, and-not unrelatedly-more frequent and devastating disasters. Yet much of environmentalist and leftist discourse in this political moment remain oriented toward horizons that repeat and renew racist, anti-migrant, nationalist, and capitalist assumptions. At the center of the renewed political orientation that Hope Against Hope expounds is abolitionist approach to border imperialism, reactionary ecology, and state violence that underpins many green solutions and modes of understanding nature. So too does it remind us of the frequent moments and movements of solidarity emerging in the ruins all around us. Their stunning conclusion to the disarray of politics in our seemingly end times is the urgency of creating what Out of the Woods calls "disaster communism"-the collective power to transform our future political horizons from the ruins and establish a climate future based in common life.

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