The OCC! team is taking part in the Historical Materialism Conference “Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow”
with a paper on Occupy Climate Change! Urban radical imaginaries and insurgent citizens in the age of authoritarian politics and disaster capitalism.
Time: Thu 2019-11-07 - Sun 2019-11-10
Location: SOAS, Russell Square, Central London
Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis in the conditions for its long-term survival. The planet has warmed before, but never this fast. Mass extinction is a regular geological event, but it is now happening faster than at any time since the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction: a megaphase crisis in microphase time. And humanity has never before faced the comprehensive exhaustion of top-soil fecundity.
More info at this link .