Molecular red

By McKenzie Wark

Subjects: Aspect de l'environnement, Utopies dans la littérature, Utopias in literature, Global environmental change, Criticism and interpretation, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Changements, Travail dans la littérature, Labor in literature, Nature in literature, Gaz carbonique atmosphérique, Atténuation, Environmental aspects, Utopian literature, Changement global (Environnement), Atmospheric carbon dioxide, Social aspects, History, Climat, Aspect social, Nature dans la littérature, Political aspects, Philosophie, Philosophy, Climate change mitigation, Influence

Description: "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"--