BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27852@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:The Exterminating Empire: Capitalism’s War on Life\, From Palestine to the Burning Planet DTSTAMP:20260926T021049Z DTSTART:20261123T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Chris de Ploeg about his new bo ok\, together with\nJason Hickel\, Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Harriët Bergman. \n\nJoin us for a conversation with author Chris de Ploeg about his new bo ok\, The\nExterminating Empire. Which is a radical and urgent indictment o f the global\ncapitalist system and the imperial violence it unleashes upo n people and planet\nalike. At its core\, the book argues that genocide an d ecocide are not tragic\nbyproducts of capitalism – they are its fundamen tal features. Together with\nrenowned climate author Jason Hickel (in pers on)\, frontline Palestinian surgeon\nGhassan Abu-Sittah (joining online) a nd our moderator\, climate justice activist\nand researcher Harriët Bergma n\, we will dive deeper into the interconnections of\nthe great challenges of our time. And more importantly\, how to fight back. There\nwill also b e cultural performances from Chihiro Geuzebroek and brothers Chris\nand Ma x de Ploeg\, tying their ancestral struggles in Bolivia and Armenia to the \nglobal struggle for liberation.\n\nTogether with Max de Ploeg multi-inst rumentalist\, decolonial organizer\,\nco-founder Aralez Chris Kaspar de Pl oeg Author\, investigative journalist\,\nprogram maker and co-founder of A ralez\n[https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-de-ploeg-92966458/?locale=en_US] Jason Hickel\nEconomic anthropologist\, author\, and a Fellow of the Roya l Society of Arts\n[https://www.jasonhickel.org/about] Ghassan Abu-Sittah Rector of the University\nof Glasgow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassa n_Abu-Sittah] Harriët Bergman\nAcademic lead bij Climate Obstruction NL en filosoof aan de Universiteit\nAntwerpen [https://www.linkedin.com/in/harr i%C3%ABt-bergman-374b458a/] Chihiro\nGeuzebroek Climate justice activist\, singer-songwriter\, poet\, co-founder Aralez\n[https://www.linkedin.com/i n/chihiro-geuzebroek-0037ba21/]\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS\n\nChr is de Ploeg (he/him) is an Armenian-Dutch journalist and organiser. Prior to\nThe Exterminating Empire\, he published The Great Colonial War trilogy and\nUkraine in the Crossfire. He is a co-founder of Aralez\, a grassroot s\norganisation for decolonisation and is active with the revolutionary pa rty De\nVonk in Amsterdam. Chris writes\, speaks\, and organises on themes including\n(neo)colonialism\, climate justice\, racism\, and capitalism. You can find more\nabout his work via his website [https://www.chrisdeploe g.com/].\n\nJason Hickel (he/him) is a political economist\, author of the acclaimed books\nLess Is More and The Divide\, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is an\nICREA Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona\, where his research\nfocuses on global inequality and ecologic al economics. He writes regularly for\nglobal news sites\, such as Al Jaze era\, The Guardian\, and Foreign Policy\, and\nwrote the foreword to The E xterminating Empire.\n\nGhassan Abu-Sittah (he/him) is a well-known Britis h-Palestinian war surgeon and\nprofessor who has worked in Yemen\, Iraq\, Syria\, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.\nSince the first intifada in 1989\, Ab u-Sittah has been a regular visitor to Gaza\,\ntreating the victims of Isr aeli violence. His latest visit was from October 9\,\n2023\, where he work ed for 43 days straight in Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals in\nGaza\, event ually leaving because there were no more medical supplies left to\nperform surgeries. Abu-Sittah has been an important witness documenting\nconditio ns in Gaza\, Lebanon and beyond\, cited by South Africa’s case at The\nInt ernational Court of Justice and by major news sites across the world.\n\nH arriët Bergman (she/her) is a philosopher\, writer\, trainer and activist based\nin Amsterdam. She works as a trainer and coordinator at Stichting\n Stroomversnellers and is actively involved in the climate justice movement in\nthe Netherlands\, as part of Climate Obstruction NL and Fossil Free C ulture NL.\nShe holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp\, where her res earch focused on\nclimate activism\, privilege\, and political emotions. H er work examines climate\njustice\, eco-fascism\, and the ethics of resist ance through anti-capitalist\,\nfeminist\, and anti-racist lenses. She is currently writing Staatsgevaarlijk\, a\nbook exploring violence\, non-viol ence\, and the role of disruption in social\nmovements.\n\nChihiro Geuzebr oek (she/her) is a Bolivian-Dutch multidisciplinary artist\nworking at the crossroads of climate justice\, decolonization and\nanti-militarization s ince 2009. She centers Indigenous anti-imperialist\nstruggles\, is co-foun der of the Aralez Foundation and winner of the Pax\nVredesduif. She has be en writing songs for 25 years and has performed at Occupy\nBeursplein\, th e A12 protests\, as well as Paradiso\, the Peace Palace\, ENGAGE\nBiennial and De Roma. She is excited to produce her first album PEACE FICTION\nabo ut multispecies peacemaking in a militarised world.\n\nMax de Ploeg (he/hi m) is an Armenian-Dutch organizer and multi-instrumentalist\nworking on de colonization. He co-founded Rooting Resistance\, where he offers\nmusical journeys for activists to ground their struggle in community and\nspiritua lity. Max is also co-founder of Aralez\, coordinator of the Week Against\n Racism and a teacher about colonialism at IIES. For this evening\, he will play\nthe Armenian Duduk to guide poetry by his brother Chris\, which wil l ground their\nancestral struggles in the global struggle for liberation. \n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\nTaking the ongoing genocide in Palestine as a poin t of departure\, The\nExterminating Empire traces capital’s centuries-long war against life itself.\nFrom the slave plantations and scorched-earth c ampaigns of early colonialism\, to\nVietnam\, Haiti\, Iraq\, and today’s c limate apartheid\, Chris Kaspar de Ploeg shows\nthat exterminatory violenc e against peoples and ecosystems has been central to\nthe imperial project . He argues that omnicidal tendencies—the drive to kill\neverything—have a lways been present\, possessing the potential to annihilate even\nthe impe rial core itself.\n\nDrawing from the revolutionary traditions of the Glob al South\, de Ploeg offers a\nstrategic vision of resistance rooted in cla ss struggle\, internationalism\,\nsocialism\, and ecological justice. The Exterminating Empire gives a coherent\nworldview to those first politicize d by the genocidal violence against\nPalestinians\, and offers fresh persp ectives to the seasoned reader. Whether\nunearthing the Roman invasions of Palestine\, exhuming the invention of hell\, or\nbrandishing the weaponiz ation of hunger and wage slavery\, de Ploeg maintains a\nrelentless clarit y and momentum. This book is both an admonition against the\nannihilation we face and a survival guide.\nThe book has also been published in Dutch b y EPO\, under the title “De hel op\naarde Genocide\, ecocide en de oorlog tegen het leven.\n\nReviews of The Exterminating Empire:\n\n“De Ploeg\, dr awing on the legacies of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist\nMarxism\, ill uminates with brilliance the connections between climate crisis\,\ncapital ism\, and genocide. A must read.”\n—Max Ajl\, climate justice Postdoc Rese archer at Tunis University\, author A\nPeople’s Green New Deal\n\n“Chris d e Ploeg’s The Exterminating Empire is a punchy book that tells us how to\n confront the existential crisis the world is in... This book is a journey— one\nthat begins when you get organised to change the world.”\n—Vijay Pras had\, Executive Director of Tricontinental Institute for Social\nResearch\ , author of Washington Bullets.\n\n“...provides a wide-ranging account of capital and imperialism... It is a\nfurious book\, unflinching and uncompr omising. It reminds us that it is fruitless\nto appeal to capital\, to imp erial power\, in moral terms. Our objective must be\nto defeat it.”\n—Jaso n Hickel\, author of Less Is More and The Divide.\n\nLees meer Monthly Rev iew [https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901660/] EPO\n[https://epo.be/shop/d e-hel-op-aarde/] URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-exterminating-empire-capitalisms-wa r-on-life-from-palestine-to-the-burning-planet GEO:52.376857;4.9220756 LOCATION:Pakhuis de Zwijger - Piet Heinkade 179\, 1019 HC Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:activism,amsterdam-centrum,books,capitalism,classes,colonialism, community,eastern docklands,party,performance,poetry,social X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a conversation with Chris de Ploeg about his new book, together with Jason Hickel, Ghassan Abu-Sittah and Ha rriët Bergman.

Join us for a conversation with author Chris de Ploeg ab out his new book, The Exterminating Empire. Which is a radical an d urgent indictment of the global capitalist system and the imperial viole nce it unleashes upon people and planet alike. At its core, the book argue s that genocide and ecocide are not tragic byproducts of capitalism – they are its fundamental features. Together with renowned climate author Jason Hickel (in person), frontline Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (joi ning online) and our moderator, climate justice activist and researcher Ha rriët Bergman, we will dive deeper into the interconnections of the great challenges of our time. And more importantly, how to fight back. There wil l also be cultural performances from Chihiro Geuzebroek and brothers Chris and Max de Ploeg, tying their ancestral struggles in Bolivia and Armenia to the global struggle for liberation.

Together with Max de Ploeg multi-instrumentalist, decolonial organizer, co-founder Aralez Chris Kaspar de Ploeg Author, investigative journalist, program m aker and co-founder of Aralez Jason Hickel Economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Ghassan Abu-Sittah Rector o f the University of Glasgow Harriët Bergman Academic le ad bij Climate Obstruction NL en filosoof aan de Universiteit Antwerpen < /a> Chihiro Geuzebroek Climate justice activist, singer-songwri ter, poet, co-founder Aralez

About the speakers and artists< /h3>

Chris de Ploeg (he/him) is an Armenian-Dutch jour nalist and organiser. Prior to The Exterminating Empire, he publi shed The Great Colonial War trilogy and Ukraine in the Crossf ire. He is a co-founder of Aralez, a grassroots organisation for deco lonisation and is active with the revolutionary party De Vonk in Amsterdam . Chris writes, speaks, and organises on themes including (neo)colonialism , climate justice, racism, and capitalism. You can find more about his wor k via his website< /a>.

Jason Hickel (he/him) is a political economis t, author of the acclaimed books Less Is More and The Divide< /em>, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is an ICREA Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where his research focuses on g lobal inequality and ecological economics. He writes regularly for global news sites, such as Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Fo reign Policy, and wrote the foreword to The Exterminating Empire< /em>.

Ghassan Abu-Sittah (he/him) is a well-known British-Palestinian war surgeon and professor who has worked in Yemen, Ira q, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Since the first intifada in 1989, Ab u-Sittah has been a regular visitor to Gaza, treating the victims of Israe li violence. His latest visit was from October 9, 2023, where he worked fo r 43 days straight in Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals in Gaza, eventually l eaving because there were no more medical supplies left to perform surgeri es. Abu-Sittah has been an important witness documenting conditions in Gaz a, Lebanon and beyond, cited by South Africa’s case at The International C ourt of Justice and by major news sites across the world.

H arriët Bergman (she/her) is a philosopher, writer, trainer and ac tivist based in Amsterdam. She works as a trainer and coordinator at Stich ting Stroomversnellers and is actively involved in the climate justice mov ement in the Netherlands, as part of Climate Obstruction NL and Fossil Fre e Culture NL. She holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, where her re search focused on climate activism, privilege, and political emotions. Her work examines climate justice, eco-fascism, and the ethics of resistance through anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-racist lenses. She is currentl y writing Staatsgevaarlijk, a book exploring violence, non-violence, and t he role of disruption in social movements.

Chihiro Geuzebro ek (she/her) is a Bolivian-Dutch multidisciplinary artist working at the crossroads of climate justice, decolonization and anti-militarizat ion since 2009. She centers Indigenous anti-imperialist struggles, is co-f ounder of the Aralez Foundation and winner of the Pax Vredesduif. She has been writing songs for 25 years and has performed at Occupy Beursplein, th e A12 protests, as well as Paradiso, the Peace Palace, ENGAGE Biennial and De Roma. She is excited to produce her first album PEACE FICTION about mu ltispecies peacemaking in a militarised world.

Max de Ploeg (he/him) is an Armenian-Dutch organizer and multi-instrumentalis t working on decolonization. He co-founded Rooting Resistance, where he of fers musical journeys for activists to ground their struggle in community and spirituality. Max is also co-founder of Aralez, coordinator of the Wee k Against Racism and a teacher about colonialism at IIES. For this evening , he will play the Armenian Duduk to guide poetry by his brother Chris, wh ich will ground their ancestral struggles in the global struggle for liber ation.

About the book

Taking the ongoin g genocide in Palestine as a point of departure, The Exterminating Emp ire traces capital’s centuries-long war against life itself. From the slave plantations and scorched-earth campaigns of early colonialism, to V ietnam, Haiti, Iraq, and today’s climate apartheid, Chris Kaspar de Ploeg shows that exterminatory violence against peoples and ecosystems has been central to the imperial project. He argues that omnicidal tendencies—the d rive to kill everything—have always been present, possessing the potential to annihilate even the imperial core itself.

Drawing from the revo lutionary traditions of the Global South, de Ploeg offers a strategic visi on of resistance rooted in class struggle, internationalism, socialism, an d ecological justice. The Exterminating Empire gives a coherent w orldview to those first politicized by the genocidal violence against Pale stinians, and offers fresh perspectives to the seasoned reader. Whether un earthing the Roman invasions of Palestine, exhuming the invention of hell, or brandishing the weaponization of hunger and wage slavery, de Ploeg mai ntains a relentless clarity and momentum. This book is both an admonition against the annihilation we face and a survival guide.
The book has al so been published in Dutch by EPO, under the title “De hel op aarde Genoci de, ecocide en de oorlog tegen het leven.

Reviews of Th e Exterminating Empire:

“De Ploeg, drawing on the leg acies of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist Marxism, illuminates with bril liance the connections between climate crisis, capitalism, and genocide. A must read.”
—Max Ajl, climate justice Postdoc Resear cher at Tunis University, author A People’s Green New Deal

“Chris de Ploeg’s The Exterminating Empire is a punchy book that tells us how to confront the existential crisis the world is in... This b ook is a journey—one that begins when you get organised to change the worl d.”
—Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinen tal Institute for Social Research, author of Washington Bullets.< /p>

“...provides a wide-ranging account of capital and imperialism... I t is a furious book, unflinching and uncompromising. It reminds us that it is fruitless to appeal to capital, to imperial power, in moral terms. Our objective must be to defeat it.”
—Jason Hickel, auth or of Less Is More and The Divide.

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