Climate catastrophe demands constructing a collective subject that does not yet exist
Evidence
Instead of saying that everyone – i.e. every one – is responsible for climate change, we all have to do our bit, it would be better to say that no-one is, and that’s the very problem. The cause of eco-catastrophe is an impersonal structure which, even though it is capable of producing all manner of effects, is precisely not a subject capable of exercising responsibility. The required subject – a collective subject - does not exist, yet the crisis, like all the other global crises we’re now facing, demands that it be constructed. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 139
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s growth fetish inherently opposes ecological sustainability — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 41; Perception, not production, is the core generator of value in late capitalism — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 94; A deep organic crisis forces the Right to construct rather than merely reflect responses — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1099 (+10 more)
Related
- Climate responsibility belongs to impersonal structure, not any individual subject (similarity 0.81)
- Climate catastrophe will destroy what we love before it ends extractive economies (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- A deep organic crisis forces the Right to construct rather than merely reflect responses
#corroborates(0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1099 - Environment acts on the subject only as comprehended and transformed into situation
#expands(0.80) - Explaining how minds create social worlds is prerequisite to solving large-scale human catastrophe
#corroborates(0.78) - A prolonged crisis signals irremediable structural contradictions being patched over
#corroborates(0.75) - Environments remain mere potentialities until people select and actualize them
#expands(0.75) - Climate fiction increasingly functions as institutional-design and information-policy thought.
#exemplifies(0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3174 - Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning
#contradicts(0.72)