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An edition of Molecular red (2015)

Molecular red

theory for the Anthropocene

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"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"--

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Table of Contents

PART I. Labor and Nature
1. Alexander Bogdanov : Workings of the World
Lenin's Rival
Red Mars
The Philosophy of Living Experience
Toward a Comradely Poetics of Knowledge and Labor
Red Hamlet : From Shakespeare to Marx
From Marx to Proletkult
From Dialectical Materialism to Tektology
Tektology as Metaphoric Machine
Blood Exchange
2. Andrey Platonov : A Proletarian Writing
Son of Proletkult
Chevengur as Historical Novel
Chevengur as Utopia
Foundation Pit : Impossible Infrastructure
Happy Moscow : Superstructural People
The Soul of Man Under Communism
Socialist Tragedy
The Factory of Literature
PART II. Science and Utopia
3. Cyborg Donna Haraway : Techno-science Worlds and Beings
The California Ideology
From Mach to Feyerabend
From Marx to Haraway
From Bogdanov to Barad
Climate Science as Tektology
4. Kim Stanley Robinson : The Necessity of Creation
Return to Red Mars
Green Mars : Tektology as Revolution
Blue Mars : After Utopia
Conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.738/74
Library of Congress
GE149 .W27 2015, GE149 .W27 2016, GE149.W27 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 280 pages
Number of pages
280

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OL31056746M
Internet Archive
molecularredtheo0000wark
ISBN 13
9781781688274, 9781781688281, 9781781688298
LCCN
2014043301
OCLC/WorldCat
936532659, 885224369

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