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September 13, 2025 108 mins

Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.

 

Shownotes

Jason’s personal website:

https://jasonwmoore.com/

Jason at Binghamtom University:

https://www.binghamton.edu/sociology/faculty/profile.html?id=jwmoore

The World-Ecology Research Collective:

https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/lab/World-Ecology-Research-Collective-Jason-W-Moore

Moore, J. W., & Patel, R. (2020).  A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things

Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life. Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life

for an overview of different approaches to conceptualizing society/capitalism and nature:

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/

on Andreas Malm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Malm

Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm

Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital

Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the Witch. Autonomedia.

https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf

on Ernst Haeckel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel

see also the chapter on Haeckel and the German Monist League in:

Gasman, D. (2017). The scientific Origins of National Socialism. Routledge.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315134789/scientific-origins-national-socialism-daniel-gasman

on Actor-Network Theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory

on Bruno Latour:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour

on John Bellamy Foster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellamy_Foster

Bellamy, J. F. (2000) Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature. Monthly Review Press.

https://ia904504.us.archive.org/9/items/526394/John%20Bellamy%20Foster.%20Marx%27s%20Ecology..pdf

on Kohei Saito:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei_Saito

on Pietro Verri:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Verri

Marx, K. (1976). Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume One. Penguin.

https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.%201%20Penguin.pdf

Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Marx’s and Engel’s German Ideology:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideolo


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