Stories and Organization in the Anthropocene: A Critical Look at the Impossibility of Sustainability

Mohammed, Sideeq

This book is about the stories being told in the Anthropocene. Stories of irreparable damage being done to the global ecosystem, of sustainable growth, of dystopian collapse, of continued interspecies flourishing, of Gaia, and of accelerating capitalism’s dynamics in order to discover its outside. Stories of change. Stories of hope. Against them all, this book seeks to braid together a particular thread of storying in order to speak to the emergence of the mall at the end of the world; a space where a new politics of “spectral capitalism” is played out. In doing so, we reflect that there never was any outside to Capital, that it can live forever, its performances and spectacles being preserved despite global ecological collapse. This book seeks to understand the nascence of the mall at the end of the world and the new people, thoughts, and dreams that come with it.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-08-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030787394

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78740-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 99