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He and his collaborators were inspired by a provocative book of the same title by an activist and academic named Andreas Malm. His book is an argument for sabotage, for strategic property. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Stormens utveckling. Andreas Malm. Skogar brinner. Glaciärer kollapsar. Haven stiger. Djurarter raderas från planetens yta. Människor flyr från vad som en gång var deras hem.
Återstår gör klimatkaos, panik — och organisering. Men ändå råder business as usual. Andreas Malms Stormens utveckling: Att leva i den globala uppvärmningens tid är en av de senaste årens mest uppmärksammade böcker. Ett brandtal som flytt forskningens anonymitet; som kommit att älskas och studeras av läsare världen över.
Malm går till angrepp mot humanismens förhärskande teoribildning om relationen mellan människa, samhälle och natur, liksom mot vårt sätt att leva. Här tecknas linjen mellan kapitalets vinstintressen och klimatkrisens accelererande effekter. Ett flammande manifest i brytpunkten mellan forskning och aktivism, som tagit världen med storm. Loading interface About the author. Andreas Malm 29 books followers.
Stormens utveckling
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Andreas Malm argues that, much like my home, critical theory is insufficiently resilient to climate change. This review has been delayed by the current UK heatwave. My top floor flat in a 19th century tenement was 26 degrees yesterday evening, simply too hot to concentrate on theory, so I re-watched Snowpiercer instead. These are not conditions that I anticipated when I moved to Scotland. He lays into Bruno Latour especially hard, which I found quite entertaining in a slightly mean-spirited way.
Surely anyone claiming their sweeping theory explains reality must expect challenge. Malm grounds his critique very strongly in the science of climate change and the urgent dangers it raises for humanity — which are of course a hell of a lot worse than my sleep being disrupted by some warm nights: It is precisely because they are continuous parts of the overall material world that the social and the natural intertwine, but only by keeping them analytically distinct can we differentiate between those aspects of the world that humans have constructed — i.
He thinks that this age is the final nail in the coffin of the distinction. In reality, it is precisely the other way around. Maximising the prospects for survival presupposes that we become more alert than ever to the dichotomy between what people create through and though and what is not their doing. ExxonMobil in one corner, vulnerable permafrost in the other. Perhaps the most crucial theme is that nature as a concept must not be dismissed.
Claims that nature no longer exists because of human intervention, or that humans construct nature entirely, are an impediment to understanding climate change: If we take Casetree at his word — climate change is not a process in biophysical reality that occurs regardless of our representations of it, but an invention of the human mind: for such is all nature — these corollaries [that climate change would cease if we stopped believing in it] follow by necessity.
It is unlikely that he would endorse them, which suggests that his argument about nature makes rather little sense of it, drawn as he is into the most banal form of the epistemic fallacy: just because we come to know about global warming through measurements and comparisons and concepts and deductions, it is in itself made up of those things. Pragmatically, this book also acknowledges that theory is hardly the priority right now and devotes several chapters to the politics of climate change: There is that itching feeling that the only meaningful thing to do now is to let go of everything else and physically cut off fossil fuel combustion, deflate the tires, block the runways, lay siege to the platforms, invade the mines.
This essay presents no arguments for restraining such impulses. It is, however, written in the belief that some theories can make the situation clearer while others might muddy it. Although it is sometime pleasurable to read theory for the sake of learning new words and exploring obscure concepts, it does frustrate me when the dense language conceals a total lack of usefulness.