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

Publisher:  Verso
Year Published:  2018
Pages:  256pp   Price:  14-33   ISBN:  9781786634153
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX22765

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.

Abstract: 
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Publisher's 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.

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Contents

Introduction: Theory for the Warming Condition
1. On the Building of Nature: Against Constructionsim
2. On Combined Development: Against Hybridism
3. On What Matter Does: Against New Materialism
4. On Unicorns and Baboons: For Climate Realism
5. On the Perils of Property: Sketches for Tracking the Storm
6. On the Use of Opposites: In Praise of Polarisation
7. On Unruly Nature: An Experiment in Ecological Autonomism
8. Conclusion: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index