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November 30, 2024

On “Capitalism in the Web of Life”: ASLE 2025 Panel

Panel call for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025 at the University of Maryland.

Next year marks a decade since Jason W. Moore’s influential Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015). In the book’s robust, post-dualist critical engagement with capitalism, Moore details his theories of World Ecology, Cheap Nature, and the Capitalocene. He argues that late capitalism is not constituted by a duality of nature plus society, but a post-dualist World Ecology of an always-already imbricated nature-culture ...