In the third episode of Good Sense, Vivak Soni and Rowan Fortune examine the book 'Fossil Capital' by Andreas Malm. How did the rift between human society's mode of production and nature begin? Malm rejects old paradigms of scarcity, instead looking at contests of power between capital and labour. 'What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.' Thus wrote C.S. Lewis, which Malm quotes approvingly.
In the second episode of Good Sense, Vivak Soni and Rowan Fortune examine the book 'Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future' by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright. Sovereignty, capitalism, and the ecological crisis intersect to create new challenges to old modes of domination and various forms of potential resistance. From ecofascism to the liberatory possibilities of climate x, our futures hang in the balance.
In this debut episode, Vivak Soni and Rowan Fortune discuss Naomi Klein's 'On Fire' and Ann Pettifor's 'The Case for the Green New Deal'. During the discussion, we examine the politics of Keynesian solutions to the climate crisis, the threat of eco-fascism and the urgency of the problem being addressed.