Resilience, class, and the antifragility of capital
Resilience, class, and the antifragility of capital
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10.1080/21693293.2016.1241474
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2017-01-01
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Cavanagh, Connor Joseph
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作者：
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到目前为止，关于复原力概念的批判性学术研究一直未能与反脆弱性概念或不同实体、有机体和复杂系统可能从无序中受益的方式相结合。然而，这种区别对于理解我们当代历史地理时刻的总体政治和生态利害关系至关重要：表面上新生的人类世。事实上，虽然生态学家在经验上将生态系统描述为表现出弹性可能是完全正确的，但试图将这一符号扩展到交织在一起的生态和政治经济现象中，却忽略了弹性生态与反脆弱资本积累模式之间的衔接和经常矛盾的政治。特别是考察后者，我反思了我们可以称之为资本“开放”时刻的阶级政治，这补充了市场化和商品化的“延伸”和“深化”的众所周知的时刻。简而言之，这样的时刻直接说明了复合增长的新机会是如何从资本主义本身的社会和生态危机中综合涌现出来的。当然，这并不是说反脆弱性等同于无所不为;只是说，资本毁灭的种子必须有意识地播种、培育和收获，并带有极端的偏见。换句话说，如果我们对复原力的追求既要公正又要可持续，它必须是革命性的，而不仅仅是变革性的。
Critical scholarship on the concept of resilience has so far eluded synthesis with that on the concept of antifragility, or the ways in which diverse entities, organisms and complex systems may benefit from disorder. Yet this distinction is crucial for understanding both the overarching political and ecological stakes of our contemporary historical-geographical moment: the ostensibly nascent Anthropocene. Indeed, whilst ecologists may be perfectly correct to empirically describe ecosystems as exhibiting resilience, attempts to extend this signifier to intertwined ecological and political-economic phenomena elide a politics of both articulation and frequent contradiction between resilient ecologies and antifragile patterns of capital accumulation. Examining the latter, in particular, I reflect on the politics of class in what we might call moments of capital's 'opening', which complement wellknown moments of the 'stretching' and 'deepening' of marketisation and commodification. In short, such moments speak directly to the ways in which new opportunities for compounding growth are synthetically emergent precisely from the social and ecological crises of capitalism themselves. This is not to say, of course, that antifragility equates with omnipotence; only that the seeds of capital's destruction must be consciously planted, cultivated and harvested with extreme prejudice. If our pursuit of resilience is to be just as well as sustainable, in other words, it must be revolutionary rather than merely transformative.