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Jun 15, 2023·edited Jun 18, 2023

Considering Dialectic of Enlightenment, your basic argument amounts to a half-truth: "Climate" functions as an ideological reification of social relations, true, and how could it turn out differently, given how society is structured. But the other way round, real abstraction also means that capitalist production entails recreating the material world in its own image through the labour process and retroactively positing its own cause as reified, but nonetheless materially effective compulsion. In other words: that capital is second nature was never just a figure of speech, but the social process increasingly posits it as literal - society itself unfolding as a natural disaster. Stopping short of this conclusion amounts to the exact same expulsion of nature that people of your intellectual affiliation accuse postmodernism of and that Horkheimer and Adorno denounce from the beginning to the end of their work.

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