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Eventually, Pondicherry was returned to France in 1815 under the Second Treaty of Paris, and the other four territories followed suit in 1816
(Chandernagore) and 1817 (Karaikal, Mahé, Yanam).
Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India
Jessica Namakkal
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it turns out, is not a matter of discovering laws: it is essentially a question of design. And the reason why even the world’s richest countries are still making us all feel the burn is because the last two hundred years of industrial activity have been based upon a linear industrial system whose design is inherently degenerative. The essence of that industrial system is the cradle-to-grave manufacturing supply chain of take, make, use, lose: extract Earth’s minerals, metals, biomass and fossil fuels; manufacture them into products; sell those on to consumers who – probably sooner rather than later – will throw them ‘away’. When drawn in its simplest form, it looks something like an industrial caterpillar, ingesting food at one end, chewing it through, and excreting the waste out of the other end. This”
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
Rather than turn us toward an unintelligible promise of redemption, Marx seeks to make us recognize that everything depends on what we do with our finite time and our shared lives. This is why Marx’s critique of capitalism from the beginning is intertwined with his critique of religion and why one cannot understand one without the other. “The critique of religion,” Marx writes, “is the premise of all critique.”
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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