![]() ![]() Of the Robinson novels that I’ve now read, 2017’s New York 2140 ( NY2140) is a favourite. I slept on Robinson’s work until reading McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red – which features a chapter on Robinson’s novels as a resource for rethinking and remaking the world that climate change has wrought. ![]() His on-going fascination with the forces and impacts of environmental transformation has been in dramatised in novels that have used a range of different settings – from the centuries-long terraforming of Mars in the Mars trilogy, to near futures of climate change here on Earth in the Science in the Capital trilogy and his most recent novel Ministry for the Future. Trained by Frederic Jameson, Robinson writes novels that are like ‘cognitive maps’ which help us to critically interrogate our present, and to think through possible trajectories towards better futures. Since the 1980s, novelist Kim Stanley Robinson has been writing books addressing these urgent questions. ![]() How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political economy that puts people and planet before profit? Kim Stanley Robinson will deliver the 14th Annual Wheelwright Lecture (online) on Thursday 25 November 2021. ![]() Note: This post contains some spoilers about the novel New York 2140. ![]()
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