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The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities Continuing with my ‘History of the world’. As ever, the fully referenced version of this essay is available here. I’m going to come back to the issue of peasantries as the ‘universal […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress Continuing with my history of the world… Earlier, I characterised the emergence of capitalism in relation to the transformation of the four medieval figures of the lord, the peasant, the merchant, and the […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 3. From the ancient to the medieval
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 3. From the ancient to the medieval Continuing my ‘history of the world’ series (a fully referenced version of which is available here), I finished last time by saying we should take a peek at what came after the ‘Axial […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts About a year ago I started publishing on this site various projections for how the future population of southwest England where I live might be able to feed itself substantially on the basis of small-scale, relatively self-reliant ‘peasant’ farming – […]
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Last week I succumbed to a bad habit of mine that I’ve been trying to put behind me – leaving snarky comments on ecomodernist websites. I won’t dwell too much here on the ins and outs of the issues, or on ecomodernism itself – hell, there’s a whole page of this site devoted […]
Of boomers and doomers
Of boomers and doomers I suppose this is going over old ground, but I’ve been struck anew recently through various readings and conversations about the nature of techno-utopianism, and the difficulty we seem to have nowadays in breaking out of a boomer-doomer dualism – that is, either the (rather unhistorical) ‘boomer’ notion that human rationality, […]
Retro-modernism
Retro-modernism I wrote a lengthy piece about modernism in my last post. Then I drafted another lengthy piece about its critical implications for so-called ‘ecomodernism’, which became so lengthy that it turned into two posts. Then I read over them, and felt – bored. So it’s probably time to move on from ecomodernism. But there’s […]
Peasantization as modernization – an alternative ecomodernism
Peasantization as modernization – an alternative ecomodernism I’ve spent – wasted, probably – a fair amount of time on this blog critiquing various techno-fixer scenarios for achieving future sustainability and social justice, most notably that of the self-styled ‘ecomodernists’1. I’m not going to rehash that here, but in this post and the next I’m going […]
Does Goldman Sachs care if you raise chickens? Some thoughts on accelerationism
Does Goldman Sachs care if you raise chickens? Some thoughts on accelerationism “Goldman Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chickens” according to political scientist Jodi Dean, quoted by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams (henceforth S&W) in their recent book, Inventing the Future1. And if that title doesn’t sufficiently telegraph S&W’s line of argument, perhaps their subtitle […]
The devil shops local
The devil shops local Veterans of this blog may recall that some time ago I had a fascinating discussion about the ‘balance of nature’ with a curious fellow who turned out to be none other than the devil himself. Well, blow me if I didn’t meet him again as I journeyed home from the Oxford Real Farming […]
Magical mathematics
Magical mathematics Recently I got into a spot of bother on Twitter (it’s easily done) after I wrote an essay criticising an astonishingly bad newspaper article by one Leigh Phillips. The thing is, I hadn’t read his book and, silly me, I didn’t realise that you’re not supposed to criticise people’s newspaper articles until you’ve read their books. Well, […]
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips Dear Leigh Hello, my name is Mr Puck. I heard about your new book, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn-Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff. Now, a title involving the word ‘porn’ that isn’t actually about, er, porn usually indicates something that’s well […]
The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship
The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship Look, I’m really, really sorry. I said I wasn’t going to write another blog post about ecomodernism but – no, no, please don’t go! This post strikes to the heart of what Small Farm Future is all about, and raises some interesting agricultural […]
