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Of all the 'liberation movements' of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon. Today, the 'carbon liberation front' threatens to crash the entire climate system. In Molecular Red, Wark looks for a way to understand, and perhaps even combat, this implacable force. He revisits the work of Alexander Bogdanov--Lenin's rival--and the great proletkult writer and engineer Andrei Platonov. In this reading, the Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for our time. Moving toward the present, Wark reads Donna Haraway's cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian utopia as powerful resources for thinking what the carbon liberation front has wrought.

Global environmental change --- Atmospheric carbon dioxide --- Climate change mitigation --- Labor in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- Philosophy --- Social aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Political. --- Bogdanov, A. --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, --- Haraway, Donna Jeanne --- Robinson, Kim Stanley --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bogdanov, A., --- Labor in literature --- Nature in literature --- Utopias in literature --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Haraway, Donna Jeanne, --- Global environmental change - Social aspects --- Atmospheric carbon dioxide - Environmental aspects --- Climate change mitigation - Philosophy --- Bogdanov, A. - (Aleksandr), - 1873-1928 - Criticism and interpretation --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, - 1899-1951 - Criticism and interpretation --- Haraway, Donna Jeanne, - 1944- - Criticism and interpretation --- Robinson, Kim Stanley - Criticism and interpretation --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociological theories --- World history --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Bogdanov, A. - (Aleksandr), - 1873-1928 --- Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, - 1899-1951 --- Haraway, Donna Jeanne, - 1944 --- -Robinson, Kim Stanley

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What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues we no longer have such singular figures, but there are, instead, general intellects whose writing could, if read collectively, explain our times. Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others. McKenzie Wark's distinctive readings are appreciations, but are nonetheless critical of how neoliberal universities militate against cooperative intellectual work that endeavors to understand and also change the world. --

Intellectuals --- Philosophy --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- filosofie --- cultuurfilosofie --- 130.2 --- neoliberalisme --- marxisme --- socialisme --- kapitalisme --- politiek --- kunst en politiek --- activisme --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- History

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As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism - environmental catastrophe, pandemics, and technological transformation - who are the thinkers with a grasp on our world? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting edge of current critical thinking: media ecologies, postcolonial ethnography, and the design of technologies. She introduces us to the ideas of seventeen major writers who, when brought together, contribute to the common task of knowing the world. Each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and opening connections to the work of the others.

Philosophy, Modern --- Intellectuals --- Ethnology. --- Mass media. --- Technology. --- Social change. --- History --- Philosophy --- Ethnology --- Mass media --- Technology --- Social change --- filosofie --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- ecologie --- technologie --- postkolonialisme --- etnografie --- 14 --- Cloud Computing --- Arts, Industrial --- Industrial Arts --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Communication --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Intelligentsia --- Humanities --- Mental philosophy

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"What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. Extending the rave's sensations, situations, fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems onto the page, Wark invokes a trans practice of raving as a timely aesthetic for dancing in the ruins of this collapsing capital"

Gay culture --- Subculture --- Techno music --- Electronic dance music --- Social aspects