ABSTRACT
This chapter engages capital from the theoretical and practical significance of subjectivity as human–nature thought and actions. The chapter argues that capital is neither a fixed structure of economy nor a completely dominating entity, and the human–nature response to capital is not necessarily a derivative ecological discourse of the capitalist economy. Capital adapts and assumes multiple forms, even as the nationalist developmental discourse in a postcolonial society. Instead of understanding subjectivity as a derivative of the social position workers occupied within a mode of production, the chapter sees subjectivity as the social and political practices that arise out of the ecological sensibilities of humans. The chapter revisits the counter-theoretical tradition that looks at the limits of capital. The non-capital or non-commodity spaces, even when they are inside the capital itself, are the spaces where the human–nature responses are seen resisting and negotiating with the capital.
