Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)· 2015
Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
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- 2015year
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This paper proposes 'Molecular Red' as a theoretical framework to understand and potentially combat the 'carbon liberation front' and its threat to the climate system.
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Key points
- The 'carbon liberation front' is identified as a primary driver of climate system collapse.
- The theoretical framework 'Molecular Red' is introduced to analyze this phenomenon.
- The work draws parallels between the Soviet experiment and contemporary environmental challenges.
- Insights from Bogdanov, Platonov, Haraway, and Robinson are used to develop the theory.
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Abstract
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.
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Field: Geography, Planning and Development
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