Alexander Galloway launches a provocative critique of ecological discourse’s fixation on finitude, diagnosing ideological distortions – from Baudrillardian recycling illusions to the Anthropocene’s “warm pride,” where humanity both destroys and centers itself. Against nihilistic fatalism (“living with” climate collapse), Galloway turns to eco-Marxists like Kohei Saito and Andreas Malm, who champion degrowth and dualist praxis over posthumanist equivocation. Rejecting defeatism, he resurrects philosophy’s “good infinity” to re-internalize crisis as agency. Can we swap warm pride for revolutionary amor fati, transforming climate determinism into a politics that ends capitalism? A bold call to reclaim infinity from apathy.

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Marcus Quent traces today’s looming ecocide through philosophical debates sparked by nuclear catastrophe. Drawing on Günther Anders, Quent argues that existential threats – atomic or ecological – exceed comprehension, paralyzing action or fueling extremes. While the nuclear age framed humanity as a fragile “species-being”, climate collapse fractures this unity, exposing global divides. As politics oscillates between hyper-politicized panic and apathetic normalization, Quent concentrates on the underlying frameworks of the exhaustion of dialectical reason. Urging a new political grounding, he calls for strategies that resist dissolving into measureless reactions – reimagining action beyond crisis binaries and the ongoing normalization of ecological catastrophe.

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Alexander García Düttmann argues that a global crisis – nuclear annihilation, ecological collapse – cannot be resolved through reformist negotiation. In the wake of Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Apocalypse is Disappointing, he frames catastrophe as a paradoxical opening: while it signals humanity’s potential self-destruction, it also forces a reckoning with systemic failures, pushing toward revolutionary rupture. Düttmann’s critique pivots on the fraught interplay between pragmatic analysis (which risks complacency) and radical imagination (which risks accelerating doom). By refusing to resolve this tension, Düttmann weaponizes ambiguity – delaying disaster to nurture the frail grounds for collective reinvention, “as if one had nothing to lose, or as if everything had already been lost”.

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L’impact sans cesse croissant de l’action humaine sur la planète nous pousse à penser de moins en moins en termes d’horizons ouverts du futur, et de plus en plus en termes de temps qui restent pour changer le cours de l’histoire et éviter les catastrophes. Trois essais récents, parus en Allemagne, en philosophie sociale et en sociologie du progrès et du changement climatique, invitent à un débat sur le cours de l’histoire et ses éventuels tournants récents. La catastrophe était-elle, est-elle, inévitable? À quoi tient le changement social?

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Deuxième série des «Chroniques de la vie mutilée» de Pierre Schwarzer, où l’auteur s’intéresse au confort de la catastrophe, aux errances du débat public, au délabrement de l’âge à la tête de la première puissance mondiale et à ce qu’il reste des noms propres.

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