Welcome to post-growth Europe – can anyone accept this new political reality?
> An expert in public policy asks if it will ever be possible for political parties in Europe to be honest about the limits of growth – and still get elected.
#Postgrowth
@sz_duras : I agree with #Serre's natural contract, but how can we ensure that it is not hijacked, like #Rousseau's social contract, which was distorted by #Robespierre's Terror, and so far? We only hear about a "general interest" to naturalize the #State and its coercive policies. Will we not hear about an "ecological general interest" within the #algorithmicControlSociety of #Deleuze, #Stiegler and #Rouvroy?
#philosophy #postPolitics #postGrowth #NaturalContract #SocialContrat #generalWill
🎂 Happy 77th, NHS! To celebrate, the government wants you to start hustling. In his searing critique, @ProfTimJackson unpacks how the #NHS10YearPlan turns care into commerce—and Bevan’s dream into a growth strategy. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/blog-tj-fit-for-whose-future/
@sz_duras An insurgent diplomacy of the living to develop a natural contract. (Bio)regional independence favored, post-political systems of representation framed by short and imperative mandates, popular revocability, and random selection, without any filter (with support/expertise). Climate immigration welcome. Post-Promethean post-growth in sight!
➡️ Capitalist excess leads to imperialism (#Bataille, #Röpke, #Gramsci, #Arendt, #Joxe)
➡️ Imperialism prolongs and radicalizes primitive accumulation (#Marx, #Williams, #Amin)
➡️ But, this headlong rush is self-destructive (Bataille)
➡️ Ultimately, it paves the way for internal totalitarianism (Arendt), when society can no longer project its contradictions outward.
5/5
To truly imagine alternatives, we must dismantle these root structures—military and otherwise—and invent new forms of solidarity, autonomy, and collective power.
6/6
The real #critique should not focus only on #capital or the #state, but on the very matrix of #modernity / #coloniality itself, as #Escobar, #Lugones, #Mbembe, and #Mignolo argue. Only at this level can we hope for true #decolonization of #knowledge, #institutions, and #subjectivities.
Sortir du mégamachino-entropocène : pour une modernité plurielle, décoloniale et symbiotique
La #modernitéOccidentale, du #mégamachinoEntropocène au #capitalocène, a enchaîné #centralisationTechnique, #colonisation, #monocultures et #impérialismeCognitif. Rompre avec ce #cycle, c’est ouvrir la voie à une #modernité fondée sur la #pluralité, la #symbiose et la #revalorisation des #savoirs manuels et du vivant. #Decoloniality #Capitalocene #Symbiocene #PostGrowth…
@sz_duras It will be very complicated to think/act at the same time post-politics and post-growth, a real challenge.
We don’t need post-growth to save the planet.
We need it to save ourselves from disposable products, extractive jobs, and a failing economy built on infinite growth.
🌍✂️ Read the new post:
🔗 https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/heal-capitalism-not-the-planet-why-the-post-growth-story-needs-a-rewrite/
#PostGrowth #Degrowth #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #SystemChange
If we want to break the status quo beyond greenwashing, we must rethink how capital flows, enabling public banks and funds to buy time for clean energy’s growth.
My latest blog post dives into this problem and proposes solutions:
https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/upfront-capital-kills-clean-energy-lets-fix-that/
Thank you for this important thread — it highlights how fossil fuel funding doesn’t just distort research agendas, but also reflects deeper systemic barriers to climate action.
One core barrier is financial timing: fossil fuel projects attract capital because their upfront costs are low and returns come fast, while clean energy demands heavy upfront investment despite being cheaper long-term.
Clean energy is cheaper over its lifetime—but upfront capital blocks its growth. Fossil fuels win not because they’re better, but because they fit short-term finance timelines.
If clean energy is cheaper, the only thing stopping us is time itself. So let’s buy time—for everyone.
Read more → https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/upfront-capital-kills-clean-energy-lets-fix-that/
Critical Glossary: New Concepts for Thinking the Age of the Megamachinocene
New concepts for thinking about the era of the #Megamachinocene: #coloniality of #centralPower, #predictiveControl society, #quantophrenicReason, #greatUnreason, #REASONance… So many tools for deciphering the ecological #crisis, #technologicalDomination, and the quest for a living and collective #reason.
#GlossaryCritique #philosophy #ecology #postPolitics #postGrowth #technology
⚡Inspired by Anitra Nelson: Teaching and Learning #Degrowth. Scale, state vs civil society, collective vs individualistic, spatial planning, inequalities & Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (forthcoming). By
Ethemcan Turhan & me at @universityofgroningen @postgrowthplan #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning #CriticalApproaches24 #CriticalApproaches25
🌍 New blog post:
"The next trillionaires will be recyclers, not extractors."
A glimpse into post-growth economics, forever products, and radical sustainability.
👉 https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/the-next-trillionaires-will-be-recyclers-not-extractors/
#PostGrowth #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #GreenTech #RecyclersNotExtractors
Join @postcarboninstitute and frontline advocates to discuss the microplastic pollution crisis and learn what we – individually and collectively – can do about it.
Register now for the free webinar on June 24 & receive the recording with a donation of your choice amount: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-08/live-event-troubled-waters-how-microplastics-are-impacting-our-oceans-and-our-health/
#microplastics #plastics #climate #health #community #action #environment #marine #ocean #pollution #planet #change #register #postgrowth #carbon #event #postgrowthalliance
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