finitude
Good Infinity
Alexander Galloway launches a provocative critique of ecological discourse’s fixation on finitude, diagnosing ideological distortions – from Baudrillardian recycling illusions to the Anthropocene’s “warm pride,” where humanity both destroys and centers itself. Against nihilistic fatalism (“living with” climate collapse), Galloway turns to eco-Marxists like Kohei Saito and Andreas Malm, who champion degrowth and dualist praxis over posthumanist equivocation. Rejecting defeatism, he resurrects philosophy’s “good infinity” to re-internalize crisis as agency. Can we swap warm pride for revolutionary amor fati, transforming climate determinism into a politics that ends capitalism? A bold call to reclaim infinity from apathy.
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