[PeDAGoG] Talk series (Online): Cheap energy in the Capitalocene Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa

Mon Jul 12 16:19:04 CEST 2021

Dear all,

With apologies for crossposting.

The Centre for Culture and Ecology at Durham University is hosting the
talk: *Cheap energy in the Capitalocene: Accumulation, waste, and the
struggles for reparation ecologies* as part of our series on Capitalism,
Nature and Climate with Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa. The
talk will take place on *Thursday, 22nd July 2021 (16:00 - 18:00) (BST),
via Zoom*, it is free and open for all. Please join us and feel free to
share the invitation to anyone who might be interested.

Registration open via the following link:

https://forms.office.com/r/3b5V4mCLL1

More Information about the talk here:

https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/culture-ecology/about-us/events/cce-talk-22-july-jason-moore-and-jaume-franquesa/

Best!

C.

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Centre for Culture and Ecology – Talk Series on Capitalism, Nature and
Climate.
Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa - *Cheap energy in the
Capitalocene: Accumulation, waste, and the struggles for reparation
ecologies.*
Thursday, 22nd July 2021 (16:00 - 18:00) (BST), via Zoom.

*Talk Abstract: *

Using the term Capitalocene means taking capitalism seriously, not just as
an economic system, but as a way of organizing the relations between humans
and the rest of nature. The Capitalocene argues that the modern world is a
result of a set of strategies that seek to "cheapen" and mobilize all kinds
of work with as little compensation as possible, enabling the expansion of
capitalism's frontiers, and extending its control over a wider set of
relations of life. Considering energy as a "cheap thing", reveals how
energy “does work” for capitalism: by amplifying (or substituting) work and
care to advance *productivity *in a system with what appears to be a
limitless demand for growth. The ongoing climate crisis reveals that we are
living with the consequences of a civilization built on cheap energy.

The Capitalocene challenges the idea that renewable energy necessarily
involves a stark rupture with the former modes of energy production.
Instead, it foregrounds how renewable energy
technologies replicate cheapening strategies, creating new
sacrifice zones, and leaving behind environmental risks and social
conflicts. It is through the dialectical relationship between waste and
value that the energy transitions operate: Renewable energy investment is
presented as a redeeming strategy for the unproductiveness or
the wastefulness of certain places, a process
that simultaneously detaches and alienates energy from actual social
relations and cheapens local attachments to land, as well as efforts to
produce autonomous, self-managed livelihoods.

This talk will focus on the strategies of cheap energy that continue to
underpin the power dynamics of energy transitions in different places. It
will engage with concepts such as: *reparation
ecologies and the demands for dignity and revaluation *to encourage a
discussion over how struggles for autonomous livelihoods in the dialectics
between waste and value can redefine how we might live differently in a
world made by capitalism's ecology.

*Bios: *

   - Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer
   at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author
   or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso,
   2015), Capitalocene o Anthropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene
   or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press,
   2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
   (University of California Press, 2017).

   - Jaume Franquesa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The State
   University of New York at Buffalo. His research agenda focuses on the
   relationship between the commodification of resources and the making of
   local livelihoods. His interests include energy transitions, land-rural
   politics, and processes of cultural heritage making. His most recent book
   is Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in
   Spain (Indiana University Press, 2018).

This talk will be co-chaired by Andrew Baldwin and Carlos Tornel.
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