Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology

by Luke, Timothy W.

• ISBN13: 9780252067297
• ISBN10: 0252067290
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

The world that was revolutionized by industrialization is being remade by the information revolution. But this is mostly a revolution from above, increasingly shaped by a new class of technocrats, experts, and professionals in the service of corporate capitalism. Using Marx as a touchstone, Timothy W. Luke warns that if communities are not to be overwhelmed by new class economic and political agendas, then the practice of democracy must be reconstituted on a more populist basis. However, the galvanizing force for this new, more community-centered populism will not be the proletarian as Marx predicted, nor contemporary militant patriotic groups. Rather, Luke argues that many groups unified by a concern for ecological justice present the strongest potential opposition to capitalism.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Power/Knowledge in Coevolving Ecologies and Economies	1	(28)
Departure from Marx: Rethinking Ecologies and Economies	29	(30)
Biospheres and Technospheres: Moving from Ecology to Hyperecology with the New Class	59	(29)
The Dangers of Discourse: Polyrchy and Megatechnics as Environmental Forces	88	(30)
On Environmentality: Geopower and Ecoknowledge in Contemporary Environmental Discourses	118	(25)
Ecodiscipline and the Post-Cold War Global Economy: Rethinking Environmental Critiques of Geo Economics	143	(28)
Slow Burn, Fast Detonation, Killer Fragments: Rereading the Unabomber Manifesto	171	(25)
Social Ecology as Political Economy for Alternative Modernities	196	(21)
Searching for Alternative Modernities: Populism and Ecology	217	(34)
Index	251