The Progress Of This Storm: Nature And Society In A Warming World (verso Futures)
by Andreas Malm /
2018 / English / EPUB
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An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to
distinguish from each other
An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to
distinguish from each other
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can
no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of
hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them
apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering
polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a
counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and
it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural
and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can
resistance become conceivable.
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can
no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of
hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them
apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering
polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a
counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and
it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural
and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can
resistance become conceivable.
