Molecular red

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

Atmospheric carbon dioxide · Climate change mitigation · Criticism and interpretation · Environmental aspects · Global environmental change · Labor in literature · Nature in literature · Political · Social aspects · Utopias in literature · A. Bogdanov (1873-1928) · Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) · Aspect de l'environnement · Atténuation · Changement global (Environnement) · Changements · Climat · Donna Jeanne Haraway · Donna Jeanne Haraway (1944-) · Gaz carbonique atmosphérique · History · Influence · Kim Stanley Robinson · Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-) · Nature dans la litterature · Philosophy · Political aspects · Travail dans la littérature · Utopian literature · Utopies dans la littérature