ABSTRACT
Green politics have always carried the non-violence ethic beyond considerations of responses to overt violence; the politics of ecology summon an ethos of non-violence that returns to the Gandhian tradition of ahimsa, a nonviolent ontology that informs relations with the self, relations with the other, and the mediating narratives of self and world. Kelly believed that political problems cannot be resolved without also addressing spiritual ones: 'Green politics has always had a spiritual base', meaning respect for all living things and knowing about the interrelatedness and interconnectedness of all living things. The dawn of the Anthropocene recalls Michel Foucault's warning that modernity stands at a threshold where the life of the species is wagered on its own political strategies. The attention economy refers to the current stage of capitalist global political economy in which human attention itself has become intensely valued and targeted both as capital and commodity.
