Subaltern Studies 2.0

Being against the Capitalocene

Milinda Banerjee,Jelle J.P. Wouters

• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780971757561
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security and power governs us as State. Our desire for possessions governs us as Capital. Our desires imprison and rule us beings as Unbeing. Yet, from Nagaland to New Zealand, Bhutan to Bolivia, a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions has begun. Arising from assemblies of humans and other-than-humans, these revolutions replace possessive individualism with non-exploitative interdependence. Naga elders, Bhutanese herders and other indigenous communities, feminists, poets, seers, yaks, cranes, vultures, and fungi haunt this pamphlet. The original Subaltern Studies narrated how Indian peasant communities destroyed the British empire. Subaltern Studies 2.0 prophesies the multi-being demos and liberates Being from Unbeing. Re-kin, Re-nomad, Re-animate, Re-wild! The Animist Revolution has come.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Who Speaks?
• War of Unbeing against Being
• A New Anticolonial Struggle
• The Age of Sorrow
• The Evil Twins: Sovereignty and Property
• The Subjection of Being
• Once When There Was No State, No Capital
• The Monstrosity of State and Capital
• Capital Colonizes Being
• The Age of Death
• The Rise and Fall of Subaltern Studies
• The Failures of Global History and of Anthropology
• To Arms: A New Academia for a Renewed War
• Enough of Welfare-State Capitalism
• Enough of Monstrous Abstractions!
• Where Marx Went Wrong
• The Degeneration of Speech
• The Poetry of Revolution
• Enough of “Postmodern” Suspicion of Being!
• The Road Back to Being
• Dismantle State, Overthrow Capital!
• For Permanent Revolution, Permanent Community!
• Enough of Atomized Individualism!
• Not Universal Class, but Communities in Solidarity!
• Being Shines in Subaltern Consciousness
• Against Possessive Man, Being!
• Difference-into-Unity!
• Being a World for Others
• Animals: Primal Instructors of Humans
• The Light of Being-Consciousness
• Once When Animals Could Speak
• Animal Democracy: The World’s Oldest Polities
• The First Imperialism: Human Colonization of Animal Polities
• Decolonize Animal Polities!
• Multi-Being Demos, Constitution to Come
• Return, Ancient Constitution: What Was, Shall Again Be!
• Fungal Organization: Being inside Beings is the Being within Me
• Fungal Democracy: Fungal Internationalism
• Rooted Interdependence: Ancient Being, Return, Restore!
• Beings in Assembly: Multibeing Demos
• The Vanquishing of Unbeing
• Beings Turn the Wheel of Law
• The Constitution of the Cosmos
• Exhortations
• Notes
• Select References