Culture, Power and Politics: Ecosocialism and Degrowth

A : [[podcast]]

URL : https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2023/06/05/ecosocialism-and-degrowth/

Featuring : [[Richard Seymour]] / [[Jeremy Gilbert]]

[[Ecosocialism and degrowth]].

Very erudite-sounding philosophical reflection on degrowth by Seymour at the beginning. Sounded good, think I'd need to relisten a few times to grasp it all. Mentions [[Degrowth communism]].

• ~00:31:30: Gilbert reiterates here that socialism and any politics has to be environmentally-minded in the 21st century. Hence ecosocialism. [[To be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist]].

Interesting stuff from Gilbert, explaining '[[totality]]'. He says at some point that it's not that much different from [[hegemony]] and [[conjuncture]].

At points the discussion (I think around totality) sounded not dissimilar to [[systems thinking]]. There was chat about [[ecology]], [[relationality]], an attempt to understand the whole based on relationships among the parts. Would like to relisten to that bit.

Seymour says the theory around [[metabolic rift]] is very useful.

They mention [[Post-Growth Living]] as a book they really rate.