Weird Winds

"...what bothers me is that the language of limits edits questions of pleasure and enjoyment out of the ecological picture. Marx's criticism of capitalism wasn't so much that it's overrun with evil pleasures--the standard environmentalist view, as a glance at an almost progressive magazine such as Adbusters will confirm--but that it is nowhere near enjoyable enough. I'm not talking about the "right" of Big Oil to "enjoy" its massive profits at the expense of "the soil and the worker" (Marx's phrase). I'm talking about how the language of curbs turns ecology into personal and interpersonal puritanism."

Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought (pg. 37)


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