Event overview
Time, global capitalism and the Anthropocene, Professor Wayne Hope
A public talk organised by the Centre for Global Media and Democracy
In this lecture Professor Wayne Hope advances the following overlapping arguments. First, global capitalism has intensified the anthropogenic feedback loops associated with CO2 emisions and climate change and universalised organisational frameworks of profit extraction and socio-ecological destruction. Second, the growing costs of monetising what Jason Moore calls ‘the four cheaps’ (energy, raw materials, food, labour) means that global capitalism cannot continue without destroying the socio-ecological wellsprings of its existence. Third, global-technological mediations of commodity fetishism and associated ideological forms obscure the plutonomy of global capitalism, the materialities of unequal socio-ecological exchange, and the ‘slow violence’ of socio-ecological destruction. Finally, a critique of these developments can be theoretically constructed by giving ecological resonance to four epistemes of time: epochality, time reckoning, temporality and coevalness. From this epistemological framework, one can identify preconditions for the advancement of eco-socialist activism on a global scale.
Bio: Wayne Hope is a Professor in the School of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His specific areas of research include: New Zealand media history and public sphere analysis, the political economy of communication, sport-media relationships and globalisation and time. He is the author of Time, Communication and Global Capitalism (Palgrave, 2016). He is founding co-editor of the online journal Political Economy of Communication.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Feb 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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