[D66] Ekpyrosis

[R.O.]

Capitalism's infra-economic substrate – the material conditions of 
current “material conditions” – is changing faster than the technical 
and political superstructures of the dominant civilization. There is no 
dialectic that can break this deadlock. The “intentional” acceleration 
of capitalist machinery, posed as a solution to our present 
anthropological destitution, finds itself in an objective contradiction 
with another, absolutely not intentional acceleration: the inexorable 
process of positive feedback of environmental transformations that have 
nefarious consequences for the species’ Umwelt. There are strong 
reasons, in short, to fear that a globally integrated post-capitalism 
will not arrive fast enough to prevent a “slow” planetary ecological 
collapse. Paul Virilio's old dromology has been surpassed by a speed 
that is wholly other.

On 12-08-2020 19:02, R.O. wrote:
> We anticipate the day when global warming, having arrived at an 
> incendiary +8°C, will be called ekpyrosis instead of the good old Latin 
> equivalent, “conflagration.”
> 
> --The ends of the world / Déborah Danowski, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 
> Other titles: Há mundo por vir?
> 
> 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekpyrosis
> 
> Ekpyrosis
>  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> Ekpyrosis (/ˌɛkpɪˈroʊsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἐκπύρωσις ekpýrōsis, 
> "conflagration") is a Stoic belief in the periodic destruction of the 
> cosmos by a great conflagration every Great Year. The cosmos is then 
> recreated (palingenesis) only to be destroyed again at the end of the 
> new cycle. This form of catastrophe is the opposite of kataklysmos 
> (κατακλυσμός, "inundation"), the destruction of the earth by water.[1] 
> The destruction of the universe was in the form of fire. The time frame 
> of destruction was never defined or given by any of the Stoics. The fire 
> destruction was to cleanse the universe.[2] The cleansing of the 
> universe was to help create a pure universe. The flames would destroy 
> everything in the universe. Then, everything would be rebuilt in the 
> exact same way in every detail before the fire. After so long, the 
> process by fire would happen again and again. This cleansing of the 
> universe is infinite.[2]
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