GLOSSARY

Anthropocene: 

• The proposed name of the current geological era, where humankind has greatly impacted and shaped ecological processes. 

Climate Catastrophe / Change / Crisis 

• the current ecological state of the planet in which an irreversible change in the global climate (due to human activity) has occurred and is resulting/ will result in widespread environmental disasters.

• related to mass extinction.

Capitalism

• An economic system in which the means of production (factories, farms, etc.) are privately owned.

• an economic model that depends on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

• RELATED TO FASCISM, COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM.

Capitalist Realism (Fisher): 

• The widespread acceptance that Capitalism is the only economic system that works and will ever work. 

Neoliberalism:

• “Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism[1] is the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism and free market capitalism” (Wikipedia)

The Real:

• “In philosophy, the Real is that which is the authentic, unchangeable truth. It may be considered a primordial, external dimension of experience, referred to as the infinite, absolute or noumenal, as opposed to a reality contingent on sense perception and the material order. The Real is often considered irreducible to the symbolic order of lived experience, but may be gestured to in certain cases, such as the experience of the sublime.” (Wikipedia)

• Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Aesthetics 

• Lacan,  Žižek

• EXAMPLE: CLIMATE CATASTROPHE (fisher, 18)

Reality Principle (Psychoanalysis):

• “Ability of the mind to assess the external world”

• “A reality principle invites us to be suspicious of any reality that presents itself as natural” – Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (17)