SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anthropocene, Proletarianization, Eurocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Week 6 lecture outline - wednesday 18 october 2017. Readings: jason moore, the rise of cheap nature, 78-115. Key terms: cheap nature, proletarianization, biosphere, alienation, forces of production, capital, eurocentrism, colonial tropes of animalization, infantilization, naturalization; anthropocene, capitalocene, nature/society binary; cartesian dualism, descartes; normalizing vs naturalizing discourses, civilization ; post-cartesian synthesis of humanity in nature; oikeios. We need to forge a new, post-cartesian synthesis of humanity in nature. Capitalism is defined by its commitment to endless accumulation in systems of power, knowledge and technology that pursue the infinite expansion of work/energy human and extra-human, paid and unpaid. Many species (meat production) and biological and geological (fossil fuels) processes perform work for capital that cannot be valued in a system that values only paid work. Rise of capitalism: 15th to 18th c. anthropocene begins not in 1800, but in the 16thc.