For decades, consumers have been led to believe that recycling plastic saves on waste. Unfortunately, it’s not true, says Simon Wilson. And that could have big consequences for the oil business.
In posing the question, 'who is the subject supposed to recycle?'
Jones denaturalizes an imperative that is now so taken for
granted that resisting it seems senseless, never mind unethical.
Everyone is supposed to recycle; no-one, whatever their political
persuasion, ought to resist this injunction. The demand that we
recycle is precisely posited as a pre- or post-ideological imperative; in other words, it is positioned in precisely the space where
ideology always does its work. But the subject supposed to
recycle, Jones argued, presupposed the structure not supposed to
recycle: in making recycling the responsibility of 'everyone',
structure contracts out its responsibility to consumers, by itself
receding into invisibility... Instead of saying that
everyone is responsible for climate change, we
all have to do our bit, it would be better to say that no-one is, and
that's the very problem.
-Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
...i miss him :sadness: