Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization

Authors

  • Fabrício Belsoff International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1092

Abstract

In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in The Twenty-First Century, Andreas Malm carries the thesis that climate change interlaces with zoonotic spillovers in a self-perpetuating system that is likely to deliver new pandemics, constituting our current situation as a 'chronic emergency.' In this sense, the author defends the idea that state-led emergency measures must be taken against the mechanism of 'parasitic capital' on a global scale and in a synchronic manner, drawing from the ecological lessons of 'war communism.'

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Published

2021-04-30

Issue

No. 63 (2021): KULT_online 63 (2021)

Section

KULT_reviews

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How to Cite

“Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization”. 2021. KULT_online, no. 63 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1092.