Abstract This review essay develops a methodologically‐minded critical engagement with two books that seek to make big theoretical contributions our understanding of the socially and ecologically destructive dynamics extractivism. By reading both texts through their methods concept building abstraction, points towards potential pitfalls science technology in capitalist mode production and, turn...

This paper responds to an invitation historians of political thought enter the debate on new materialism. It combines Simondon’s philosophy individuation with some aspects post-humanist and materialist thought, without abandoning a more classically ‘historical’ characterization Two keywords drawn from Barad Simondon respectively – ‘ontoepistemology’ ‘axiontology’ represent red thread narrative ...

Abstract Consciousness has an important role in ethics: when a being consciously experiences the frustration or satisfaction of its interests, those interests deserve higher moral priority than behaviourally similar but non-conscious being. I consider relationship between this ethical and posteriori (or ‘type-B’) materialist solution to mind-body problem. It is hard avoid conclusion that, if ty...