Molecular red: theory for the anthropocene

by Wark, McKenzie

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Title Statements

Full title :Molecular red : theory for the anthropocene / McKenzie Wark.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:XXIV, 280 str. ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781784784089, 1784784087, 9781781688274, 1781688273
oclc:on1028618784
Dewey Decimal:363.738/74

Subjects

Antropocentrizem Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environme… Bogdanov, Aleksandr Changement global (Environnement) -- As… Climat -- Changements Climate change mitigation -- Philosophy Criticism, interpretation, etc Filozofija -- Ekologija Gaz carbonique atmosphérique -- Aspect … Global environmental change -- Social a… Haraway, Donna Jeanne Klimatske spemembe -- Okoljski vplivi Platonov, Andrei ̆Platonovich Robinson, Kim Stanley