Apocalypse now? – The Last Generation in digital capital’s affective ecology
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Max Kramer
Funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung as part of the project „The Populism of the Precarious“
Abstract
This essay situates the protest actions of the German environmentalist group Die letzte Generation (LG) within an environmental critique of digital capitalism. It specifically examines the temporality of LG’s activism at the intersection of the affective ecology of digital capital and certain aspects of an apocalyptic imagination. I propose a Spinozist approach to the media environment in which LG operates that may open a path toward an immanent critique of LG’s publicity-oriented practices.
About the author
Funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung as part of the project „The Populism of the Precarious“
Research funding: Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the project “The Populism of the Precarious”
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