Muckers and Landsmen: Radical Ecology, Biospheric Dystopia and the New Wave of Science Fiction

The radical ecologists Foster, Clark and York contend that the fundamental logic and constitution of capitalist production has and always will set it in
antagonism with nature, as “a potentially fatal ecological rift has arisen
between human beings and the earth, emanating from the conflicts and
contradictions of capitalist society.” In modernity, ‘ecological rift” has
been characterised by unchecked capital accumulation; the voracious
abuse and wastage of nature’s raw materials; the ‘unequal ecological
exchange” of imperialist, neo-imperialist and globalised geopolitics;
and calibration of the means of production towards the consumerist
wants of a small part of the globe rather than the basic material needs of
all human beings on the planet.

However, in line with the preoccupations of ‘second wave’ ecocritical thought, the ‘new wave’ science fiction movement (1960s–70s) and its successors explore the myriad types of biospheric devastation instigated by capitalist social relations, from overpopulation to human psychic estrangement from nature.

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