The Case for the Wasteocene

Indeed, I am guilty. I am, as Iris Borowy notes in her introduction to this forum, among those who have pointed mainly to capitalism when speaking of toxicity.1 I have argued that (necro-)capitalism reproduces itself through the contamination of people and places. In other words, the making of a toxic world is not an unwanted side effect of capitalism but, rather, its very way of functioning. With Federico Demaria and Giacomo D’Alisa, I also believe that capitalism is producing accumulation by contamination.2 To be more specific, I have written that racial capitalism, rooted as it is...