Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

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Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.

Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the former prefigures that of the latter. From the ruins of these mighty histories, Wark salvages ideas to help us picture what kind of worlds collective labor might yet build. From the Russian revolution, Wark unearths the work of Alexander Bogdanovâ€”Leninâ€™s rivalâ€”as well as the great Proletkult writer and engineer Andrey Platonov.

The Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for the new organizational challenges of our time. From deep within the Californian military-entertainment complex, Wark retrieves Donna Harawayâ€™s cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinsonâ€™s Martian utopia as powerful resources for rethinking and remaking the world that climate change has wrought. Molecular Red proposes an alternative realism, where hope is found in what remains and endures.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-04-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781781688274

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-04-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781781688274

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

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