@article{Antonacci_2021, title={Periodizing the Capitalocene as Polemocene: Militarized Ecologies of Accumulation in the Long Sixteenth Century }, volume={27}, url={https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/1045}, DOI={10.5195/jwsr.2021.1045}, abstractNote={<p class="AbstractParagraphs">Lewis and Maslin explore geological markers for the beginning of the “Anthropocene”-beginning, in their periodization, in either 1492 (naming the birth of capitalism as the cause of planetary crisis) or 1945 (naming elite-driven militarization as its cause). In this essay, I argue for a synthesis of these two dynamics, locating both the birth of capitalism and a transformation of elite-driven militarization in the conquest of the New World during the Long Sixteenth Century. As such, I propose narrating planetary history through a “capitalocene as polemocene,” “the age of capital as an age of war” framework.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of World-Systems Research}, author={Antonacci, John Peter}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={439–467} }