phases.substack.com/p/note-on-th... also a brief thing on the industrialization of animal metabolisms from marx’s POV

sorry a repost i know but im also writing a brief thing about the infrastructural geography and associated constraints of Appalachian gas that prospective AI development is now trying to exploit. up soon

i think it’s a result of his training/reference points, but yea. he wants to say this is a problem of capitalism, attributes the “transitionist narrative” as the ideology of 21st c capitalism, and explicitly wants to write an economic history, but all limited bc he is over-committed to symbiosis

that's a very good point! i'm not sure where it is coming from re: fressoz, as his primary influences seem to be historians of tech. but i think 'metabolism' is likewise plagued with the same sort of static reading inherited from early sociology

let’s go

oh no what's happening

whoops correction water obstruction/encroachment permits (chapter 105)

again & again, the energy sector demonstrates how irrational the private property regime is as basis for efficient utility-scale land-based projects and w/o fail we have industry plants and other dimwits misidentifying the impasse. if you want a transition, it's gotta be a public work. no other way

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