The Politics of Web Materiality: Making Electronic Literature in the Capitalocene

Alex Saum

UC Berkeley

@alexsaum

SLSAeu 2021

Taken from the San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 9th, 2020, in relation to last year's fire season

Jason Moore has advanced the notion of the Capitalocene, where the role of capital is seen as a way of organizing nature “as a multispecies, situated, capitalist world ecology”

(from Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. Jason Moore Ed. Oakland: PM Press, 2016. 1-13)

"Critical Web Materiality"

Redeploys digital abstraction to refer to the devastating material effects of market abstraction via algorithmic economies and their supporting infrastructures.

In relation/response to the Capitalocene paradigm

Eugenio Tiselli. El 27/ The 27th

Eugenio Tisselli. Amazon (2019)

Joana Moll. DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST (2016)