Anna Hickey-Moody

Deleuze, Gilles work offers exiting new methodologies. Indeed, writing on Infinite Eros, Sholtz and Carr go so far as to claim “Deleuze, GillesGuattari, Felix offer us a new conception of life - life as the singular relations that we are. Life is constituted, sustained and amplified through connections and encounters, thus it is always constituted through difference” (2018, p. 459). Such fresh conceptions of the Empirical here, configured as thinking about life itself as difference itself, are perhaps most valuable when applied to ‘real world’ problems as transformers; as ways of looking anew at established problems. Scholars of cultural Pedagogy show us how the world at large teaches gender.

CapitalismMasculine economies us. Performative materialities (materiality) us through producing huge amounts of environmental waste in the process of making capitalist commodities, trafficking workers along polluted highways and drilling oil to traffic workers. In this chapter, I will show that often this process of Commodity production is Gendered as masculine. As a core part of Capitalism, contemporary economies of Carbon production, Consumption and trading mobilise masculinist tropes of competition, Performance and frontier politics.