The Progress of This Storm

Nature and Society in a Warming World

• Author(s): Andreas Malm,
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 1786634147
  ISBN_13: 9781786634146
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / History & Theory , Philosophy / Political , Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection , Nature / Ecology , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties , Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy , Science / Global Warming & Climate Change ,

Description:... 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.