Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?
To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power, wealth, and security of "business-as-usual"
and all of us, those exhausted, in every sense of the word, by the status quo.
Replacing Promethean, romantic, and apocalyptic fairytales with a new story for every exhausted inhabitant of this exhausted world, The Exhausted of the Earth outlines the politics and the power needed to alter the course of our burning world far beyond, far better than, mere survival.
ISBN-13: 9781915672117
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Repeater
Publication Date: 02-13-2024
Pages: 400
Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.
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"This thoughtful and wide-ranging book is for those who wish to understand our predicament clearly, but especially for those looking for a glimmer of hope in our current darkness."
— Raymond Geuss, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
"Written in a feisty and urgent style, The Exhausted of the Earth does the important work of not only showing that climate disruption and the Anthropocene are political, but also that they change what politics means. It shifts our attention in many, much needed ways.”
— McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
"Destined to be a classic, a touchstone in global climate struggles to come... The Exhausted of the Earth is a gift to a world burning to learn."
— Raj Patel, New York Times and international bestselling author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
“The Exhausted of the Earth opens new horizons for urgent and immediate climate action. A must-read for our times.”
— Julia Steinberger, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne
"This wonderfully rich inquiry into late climate politics zooms in on exhaustion as the predicament of a world too long subjected to the ‘extractive circuit’ of capital. If there is any way to fight back, it is, as Singh Chaudhary so convincingly argues, with southern resources, assembled by everyone from Frantz Fanon to Imam Mahdi."
— Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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