October 1, 2026
In addressing Marxian ecology and the critique of the fetishism of so-called artificial intelligence or AI, it is important to place this in the context of the present age of accumulation under monopoly-finance capital. The rise of AI capital does not represent, as contemporary ideology would have us believe, a new, technologically determined, rationally organized capitalist system, to which it is useless to offer resistance.1 Rather, today’s alienated AI capital constitutes an irrational shift from order to disorder in human ecological and social relations on the local, global, and planetary levels. Not only does computational capitalism promise to disrupt the entire work environment, pointing to growing joblessness and increased exploitation, exacerbating class and imperial polarization on a global basis, but we are seeing, even more ominously, a further rupture in the human relation to the earth of which humanity is itself an emergent part.
In addressing Marxian ecology and the critique of the fetishism of so-called artificial intelligence or AI, it is important to place this in the context of the present age of accumulation under monopoly-finance capital. The rise of AI capital does not represent, as contemporary ideology would have us believe, a new, technologically determined, rationally organized capitalist system, to which it is useless to offer resistance.1 Rather, today’s alienated AI capital constitutes an irrational shift from order to disorder in human ecological and social relations on the local, global, and planetary levels. Not only does computational capitalism promise to disrupt the entire work environment, pointing to growing joblessness and increased exploitation, exacerbating class and imperial polarization on a global basis, but we are seeing, even more ominously, a further rupture in the human relation to the earth of which humanity is itself an emergent part.
Biospheric Boundaries wiith safe operating space - 2025. Illustration showing the crossing of seven of the nine planetary boundaries that constitute the safe operating space for humanity. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Boris Sakschewski and Levke Caesar et al., Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet, stockholmreslience.org.
