Main entry:

Wark, McKenzie, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

Molecular red : theory for the anthropocene / McKenzie Wark.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xxiv, 280 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
"First published in paperback by Verso 2016"--Title page verso.
Previously published in hardcover in 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-269) and index.
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.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1784784087
9781784784089
9781781688274
1781688273
9781781688281 (UK EBK)
9781781688298 (US EBK)

Subject:

Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928 Criticism and interpretation.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951 Criticism and interpretation.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne Criticism and interpretation.
Robinson, Kim Stanley Criticism and interpretation.
Bogdanov, A. (Aleksandr), 1873-1928.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951.
Robinson, Kim Stanley.
Platonov, Andrei Platonovich, 1899-1951 Criticism and interpretation.
Global environmental change Social aspects.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide Environmental aspects.
Climate change mitigation Philosophy.
Labor in literature.
Nature in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Changement global (Environnement) Aspect social.
Gaz carbonique atmosphérique Aspect de l'environnement.
Climat Changements Atténuation Philosophie.
Travail dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Utopies dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
History 20th century Political aspects.
History 20th century Social aspects.
United States History 20th century Influence.
Soviet Union History 20th century Influence.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293650
Call No.: BIB 238762
Status: Available