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In short, at the heart of the petrochemical revolution was a radical change to the nature of production itself: the materiality of commodity production had become a derivative – or a by-product – of the production of energy.
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In short, at the heart of the petrochemical revolution was a radical change to the nature of production itself: the materiality of commodity production had become a derivative – or a by-product – of the production of energy.
But the degree to which petrochemicals drove the ‘replacement of living labour by dead labour’ extends far beyond petrochemical plants themselves. At a more elemental level, petrochemicals marked a qualitative shift in the nature of commodity production: the…