Molecular red

By McKenzie Wark

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

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"--