Late capitalism has eclipsed Nature as society’s radical other

Evidence

Such forces Burke, in his historical moment at the dawn of the modern bourgeois state, was only able to conceptualize in terms of the divine, while even Heidegger continues to entertain a phantasmatic relationship with some organic precapitalist peasant landscape and village society, which is the final form of the image of Nature in our own time. … The other of our society is in that sense no longer Nature at all, as it was in precapitalist societies, but something else which we must now identify. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 124

Categorization

• QUESTION: Jameson asserts Nature’s eclipse but defers the identification of its successor — worth tracking how he resolves this promised ‘something else.’
• XREF: Connects to claims that postmodern aesthetic form is the economy’s way of appearing; Heidegger’s lost ‘field path’ is an earlier image of pre-capitalist totality. — connects to: Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination; Capitalism is poised to consume its last remaining outside via data — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 68; Modernity’s exclusion of nature from justice created its sustainability crisis — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 473