As radicals, our relationship with the ‘domesticated’ means of everyday subsistence and wellbeing tends to be addressed in terms of phases of capitalism.
Successive ‘long waves’ within capitalism (manufacture, machinofacture, Fordism, post-Fordism, etc (techno-economic paradigms, Perez 2018) are actually, historically, rather short, spanning only the historical dominance of industrial capital.
> Perez 2018, *Second machine age or fifth technological revolution* pdf ![]()
Colonisation and ‘plantation capitalism’ runs further back, and alongside agricultural capitalism in the West, and early-modern European mercantilism. The political weight that attaches to *Plantationocene* does need to be fully recognised and mobilised, but surely this isn’t old enough to warrant an *ocene* suffix.
Colonialism-capitalism will do, as a means of tagging the historical challenge in making a Living economy of domesticated means, and establishing a comprehensive ecology of trans-modern domestic commons.
> Be aware, builders at work. More to be developed here xxx On: Humanly-cultivated and -fashioned constellations of means of subsistence and wellbeing: housing and land for housing, regional food, personal care of dependents, medical care, transport, energy, etc.