The Progress of This Storm: On Society and Nature in a Warming World (Verso Futures)

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The Progress of This Storm: On Society and Nature in a Warming World (Verso Futures)

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Rating : 4.81 (953 Votes)
Asin : 1786634155
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 240 Pages
Publish Date : 2017-05-28
Language : English

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It looks unblinkingly at the catastrophe that could await human society if we fail to act on the words System Change or Climate Change. Praise for Fossil Capital: “Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. Rather, as he shows in a subtle and surprising reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution, it has been the logic of capital, not technology or even industrialism per se, that has driven global warming.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums “A theoretical masterpiece and a political-economic-ecological manifesto. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything. It is a book that I will return to again and again—and take notes.” —John Bellamy Foster, Universit

Andreas Malm teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author, with Shora Esmailian, of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, and of Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency that sets them apart from dead matter. Deflating several prominent currents in contemporary theory—constructionism, hybridism, new materialism, posthumanism—and submitting the influential work of Bruno Latour to particularly biting critique, Malm shows that action against fossil fuels is best served by a theory that takes nature, society and the dialectics between them very seriously indeed.. It can no longer be separated from society. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable. An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical