The life-force concept of zoe can displace advanced capitalism’s pull

Evidence

According to Braidotti (2013), “We need a vision of the subject that is ‘worthy of the present’” (p. 52), and which involves recognizing subjectivity as “both materialist and relational, ‘naturecultural’ and self-organizing” (p. 51). Nature-culture reunites people with the dynamic movement of a living world and transcends the zero sum logic of Marxist structural analysis, which is predicated on systemic necrophilic– biophilic binary that at best results in people’s mere materialist existence. On the contrary, the concept of zoe (life force) has the potential to “displace the exploitive and gravitational pull of advanced capitalism” (Braidotti, 2013, p. 141). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1115

Categorization

• QUESTION: zoe as emancipatory force is asserted more than argued here—worth chasing the primary source.
• XREF: connects to: Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1036; Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 499

Broader Connections

• Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature #corroborates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499