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The Alibi of Capital
How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow
Timothy Mitchell
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Mitchell's argument is that capital has always required an alibi — a story about tomorrow that justifies what is extracted today. Dams, oilfields, plantations, debt: each one sold as progress, each one paid for with ground that never recovered.
We stock it because it names the mechanism behind the depletion we spend our days trying to reverse. Exhausted soil and exhausted nervous systems are not two problems. They are the same accounting, carried out at two scales.
Read alongside the thesis and the Spore Theory.
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