Against Ecology -- A Discussion for the Unmanageable

Tuesday, 21 February

Against Ecology -- A Discussion for the Unmanageable

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Against Ecology
The catastrophe we face is not revealed in the predictions of a scientific caste, nor in the mysticism of rhythms of nature which we have never known in the duration of our artificial lives.

The catastrophe is the daily dose of poisoning which we drink voluntarily: the world of management, entertainment, democracy, technological progress and merchandise. Its power source is human drudgery and submission, turbo-charged by fossil fuels or no-less ruthlessly exploited ‘sustainable’ resources. This is the polluted wasteland which takes survival for as long as possible as its miserable horizon – at an individual level as much as at the level of the species.

In the past, struggles against the most polluting developments have been orientated by ecology but now it is acting as a brake on their potential.

The fumes of ideology can be more suffocating than greenhouse gasses. If we are not careful, we will be led directly into the embrace of a transformed authority – eagerly drawing on the moral fury of the green movement, and all too happy to continue to govern on a necessarily planetary scale.

We need fresh ideas and action to break with the stifling atmosphere of the moment and to arm the struggles of the near future. We need to move beyond ecology, and enter the dimension of a revolt without excuses, without demands and without return to normality.

 

Date & Time: 

Tuesday, 21 February, 2023 - 19:00

Category: 

  • book shop/info shop/library
  • discussion/presentation

Price: 

  • free
Touchpaper Anarchist Library
385 Queens Road, New Cross
SE14 5HD
United Kingdom

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New Cross Gate railway station

Touchpaper is an anarchist library in South London. Only the best in subversive publications from around the world, with distro publications for contribution, library books which can be borrowed with a small deposit, and an extensive archive of anarchist ideas put onto paper.

categories: 

  • book shop/info shop/library

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The Library is open at the following times every week:

Tuesday  4pm- 9pm
Sunday  2pm-7pm