{"product_id":"the-progress-of-this-storm-isbn-9781788739405","title":"The Progress of This Storm","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.“Andreas Malm’s new masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Progress of This Storm\u003c\/i\u003e fills an urgent need, as did his seminal \u003ci\u003eFossil Capital\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016. In his earlier book, he demonstrated that the fossil capitalism was not preordained by God or Nature or Technology, and that the answer is system change not climate change. In his new study, he teaches us how we can transcend those fashionable, ecological philosophies, clouding our understanding, that stand in the way of the unity of environmental theory and practice. No more definitive work of its kind exists today.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —John Bellamy Foster, editor of \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMarx’s Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “As the global crisis grows, it is more important than ever to understand the complex relationship between society and nature, but much of what passes for environmental theory generates more confusion than insight. Andreas Malm has written another essential contribution to ecological Marxism, a brilliant and clearly written polemic that demolishes constructionism, hybridism, postmodernism and related academic fads, and defends historical materialism as the only credible alternative.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Ian Angus, author of \u003ci\u003eFacing the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Progress of This Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is a furious defense of dialectical thought, and of historical materialism as the theoretical lens appropriate for viewing global warming in all its social and natural complexity.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Robbins,\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Progress of This Storm\u003c\/i\u003e issues a welcome call to get serious about political agency.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alyssa Battistoni, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Andreas Malm has a deep understanding of climate change, writes clearly, and presents a useful overview of environmental thought. He also introduces some compelling concepts of his own, with provocative implications for political struggle … [\u003ci\u003eThe Progress of This Storm\u003c\/i\u003e] is genuinely stirring in his militant calls to action.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dayton Martindale, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Malm argues with impressive rigour and skill.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Socialist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful sketch of a political theory for a time of climate change.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Wallace-Wells, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndreas Malm\u003c\/b\u003e teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author, with Shora Esmailian, of \u003ci\u003eIran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War\u003c\/i\u003e, and of \u003ci\u003eFossil Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303201001701,"sku":"NP9781788739405","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788739405.jpg?v=1767741093","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-progress-of-this-storm-isbn-9781788739405","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}