Sociobiophysicality, Cold War, and Critical Theor y: Human-Ecological Transformation and Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity
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...Hobsbawm (1994) describes the reactions of socialist parties and labor movements in the industrialized West during this period:...
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...One key economic and geopolitical strategic concern for the United States was the establishment a new international economic order favorable to its domestic market, which is estimated to have been producing anywhere from about half (McQuaid, 1994) to three-quarters (Hobsbawm, 1994) of the world’s total manufacturing output by the war’s end....
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...between 1950 and 1973 (Rostow, 1978: 256, in Hobsbawm, 1994: 262). The alliance between government and corporations, which had emerged before and during WWII and which was refined in the years immediately following the end of the war in 1945, culminated and became ingrained in the fabric of American society throughout the four decades of the cold war. Once firmly rooted, the new organizational forms that laid the foundations for the emergence of the regulatory state established the limits of (what was perceived as) the possible. Indeed, these transformations were a result and expression of what I analyze below as the cold war regime of critique containment. It is telling, for example, how during this time, John Kenneth Galbraith, whose name is synonymous with American liberalism, railed against the popular notion that American politics involved a clear dividing line between government and private business. Galbraith (1967) urged American citizens to hone in on the reality of “the political,” advice which was perhaps especially well-warranted given the impending Communist threat:...
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...175 allowed the Soviet and other Eastern bloc economies to survive by insulating themselves from international pressure (Hobsbawm, 1994)....
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...…effects of human-induced environmental degradation in post-World War II American society reached a significant level where public attention to the environment coalesced with a variety of specific political and cultural factors during the 1960s (see Dunlap and Mertig, 1992; Gottlieb, 2005 [1994])....
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...On the Jevons Paradox, see Buttel (2006), Foster et al. (2010: 139-142, 169-181), and York (2006).. 34 See, e.g., Jorgenson and Burns, 2007 and the contributions in Journal of Environment and Planning, volume 2, issue 4, a special issue devoted to ecological modernization theory....
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...121 Postone deals explicitly with a critical appropriation of Lukács in his 2003 essay, “Lukács and the Dialectical Critique of Capitalism,” and in his 2009 essay, “The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel.” Although I will make references to these essays, my focus will be on Postone’s (1993) book, Time, Labor, and Social Domination....
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