Andreas Malm has to be in this conversation. He wrote a fantastic defense of historical materialism in the face of OOO (object oriented ontology) and postmodernist critiques when it comes to climate change. His Fossil Capital is a groundbreaking work that uses that method to show climate change was not inevitable or the fault of "all mankind," but capitlism developed in 19th century Britain. Steam power was used to crush labor power, and that's how climate change started. He writes so well and clearly and his work is always very engaging. He has a new book coming out soon called How To Blow Up a Pipeline and I'm very excited to read it.
Late af but seconding this. Fossil Capital should honestly be considered essential theory, its a brilliant re-understanding of the history of climate change and the industrial revolution
Andreas Malm has to be in this conversation. He wrote a fantastic defense of historical materialism in the face of OOO (object oriented ontology) and postmodernist critiques when it comes to climate change. His Fossil Capital is a groundbreaking work that uses that method to show climate change was not inevitable or the fault of "all mankind," but capitlism developed in 19th century Britain. Steam power was used to crush labor power, and that's how climate change started. He writes so well and clearly and his work is always very engaging. He has a new book coming out soon called How To Blow Up a Pipeline and I'm very excited to read it.
Late af but seconding this. Fossil Capital should honestly be considered essential theory, its a brilliant re-understanding of the history of climate change and the industrial revolution