Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Resumen del libro

In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.

Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the former prefigures that of the latter. From the ruins of these mighty histories, Wark salvages ideas to help us picture what kind of worlds collective labor might yet build. From the Russian revolution, Wark unearths the work of Alexander Bogdanov Lenin's rival as well as the great Proletkult writer and engineer Andrey Platonov.

The Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for the new organizational challenges of our time. From deep within the Californian military-entertainment complex, Wark retrieves Donna Haraway's cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian utopia as powerful resources for rethinking and remaking the world that climate change has wrought. Molecular Red proposes an alternative realism, where hope is found in what remains and endures.

Biografía del autor

McKenzie Wark (Newcastle, 1961) es escritora y profesora de Estudios Culturales y Medios de Comunicación en el Eugene Lang College de la New School for Social Research de Nueva York. En sus ensayos ha rastreado la huella cultural y política que la Internacional Situacionista (IS) ha dejado en el imaginario colectivo y ha atendido a las metamorfosis sociales y culturales que han provocado las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en nuestras vidas. Sus títulos disponibles en español son los ensayos Un manifiesto hacker, La playa bajo la calle, El capitalismo ha muerto y las autoficciones Vaquera invertida y Raving.