TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wark, McKenzie
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Molecular red: theory for the anthropocene
PB  - Verso
CY  - London
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Atmospheric carbon dioxide
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Climate change mitigation
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Labor in literature
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - Anthropozän
AB  - "Of all the 'liberation movements' of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon. Today, the 'carbon liberation front' threatens to crash the entire climate system. In Molecular Red,  Wark looks for a way to understand, and perhaps even combat, this implacable force. He revisits the work of Alexander Bogdanov--Lenin's  rival--and the great proletkult writer and engineer Andrei Platonov. In this reading, the Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for our time. Moving toward the present, Wark reads Donna Haraway's cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian utopia as powerful resources for thinking what the carbon liberation front has wrought"--
SN  - 9781781688274
LA  - English
N1  - McKenzie Wark
ID  - 1616559454
ER  -