![]() ![]() ![]() An attack on corporate power, specifically the power of large energy and extraction companies, leads to some strongly worded proposals to reclaim control over social production from large corporations. Climate science crosses over from necessary information into fetishized and desensitizing spectacle, with litanies of scientific facts that detail our planetary ecosystem's decline projecting out towards grim apocalyptic scenarios of a world completely out of balance. Climate change politics have become a prominent marker of this post-political ascent, colonizing spaces of political activity with a depoliticized state of nature best left to technocratic control. This lends itself to a populism that pits an undifferentiated humanity against a common, reified foe, in this case carbon disequilibrium, and conceives of this struggle within a framework that naturalizes the capitalist economy. Swyngedouw defines the post-political condition as a managerial consensus sustained by apocalyptic fears, where technocrats and scientists are presumed to know what is good for the world. ![]()
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