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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Rosie Warren.

We talked about the entwined processes of climate change and the increasing proletarianization of the world's

population, the debate over whether to describe our geological age as the Anthropocene or the

capitalocene, and we also talked about Walter Benjamin's notion of capitalism as a cultic

religion.

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poll theory other to sign up. Rosie Warren is an editor at Verso Books and also the editor-in-chief

of the journal Salvage. Our conversation was prompted by an editorial in the journal, authored by

the Salvage Editorial Collective, entitled The Tragedy of the Worker towards

the Proletarocene. I began the interview by asking Rosie to explain what the term proletarocene

denotes. Primarily, it's kind of a provocation. The proletaricine, as I understand it and as I mean it,

is kind of another word for communism. If we take ourselves to be in the

capitalisee now, which I think is, you know, as useful a title for it as any, what we mean by

that is that the geological epoch that we're in, having been named by, you know, certain

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