The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World


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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.

Author: Andreas Malm
Publisher: Verso
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781788739405
ISBN10: 178873940X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Philosophy | Political
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General

About the Author
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.