The natural world offers nothing intrinsically resistant to capital’s commodification

Evidence

Now, every corporation, no matter how exploitative, is required to present itself as Green. The emergence of ecological concerns gives Keiller’s treatment of landscape a properly dialectical poise. In the opposition between capital and ecology, we confront what are in effect two totalities. Keiller shows that capitalism – in principle at least – saturates everything (especially in England, a claustrophobic country that long ago enclosed most of its common land, there is no landscape outside politics); there is nothing intrinsically resistant to capital’s drive to commoditisation, certainly not in the ‘natural world’. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 546

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Contradicts the romantic premise of my trees-as-infrastructure piece that ‘natural’ greenery is outside or against capitalism — the passage argues enclosure means no English landscape sits outside politics.
• DEEPTHINKING: Hard claim to hold together with the simultaneous point that ecology and capital are ‘two totalities’ — the tension between capital saturating everything and ecology being equally total is genuinely dense.
• XREF: connects to: Acknowledging the scale mismatch between human life and history can generate new politics — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 551; Nothing inherently resists incorporation into capital; the enemy is creative capitalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1565; Humanity’s domination of nature fails because inner nature remains unruly — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1260 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Nothing inherently resists incorporation into capital; the enemy is creative capitalism #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1565
• Humanity’s domination of nature fails because inner nature remains unruly #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1260