The current era of eco/neofascism and genocide demands an understanding of how ecological collapse, capitalist extraction, and systemic violence are systemically entwined. Following Engels, nature is in constant flux, driven by internal contradictions that mirror social transformation. Just as nature changes through antagonistic forces, revolution emerges from contradictions within society, particularly those between capital and labor, as Mao argues. These contradictions become heightened under genocidal regimes that seek to annihilate both human and ecological life for accumulation. Donna Haraway deepens this understanding by emphasizing that revolutionary change is not only social but also ecological, rooted in the entangled constitution of species-being; culture and nature are not opposites but co-constituted through relationality. Thus, revolutionary nature emerges when human and more-than-human life form new modes of coexistence and resistance. Judi Bari’s work embodies this dialectic by linking class struggle with ecological defense, foregrounding bioregionalism and ecofeminism as vital focus points for dismantling patriarchal and capitalist hierarchies, and advocating worker-based environmental activism as the basis for eco-militancy.

In an era where genocide is both human and ecological, seen in settler-colonialism, war, and climate-induced displacement, the dialectic of revolutionary nature must involve both mourning and mobilization. It is not enough to recover ecological relations severed by capitalism: we must ask whether new associative production processes can be built that are healing, relational, and co-evolutionary. This involves re-imagining nature/labor not as surplus extraction, but as radical care, regeneration, and militancy. Revolutionary nature today means living and organizing in the cracks of catastrophe, forming counter-geographies where both ecosystems and social relations can be transformed. 

With the above characterization in mind, this seminar aims to bring together papers that examine the intersections between ecological struggle and resistance aesthetics, with a view toward building militant praxis beyond the stalemate of institutionalized environmental and political thinking.