Bring back the Institute for Workers’ Control
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 23 Number 4 (2015)
Bring back the Institute for Workers’ Control
Joe Guinan pages -
Abstract
McKenzie Wark, in Molecular Red, his recent book on theory for the Anthropocene, argues that we need new ancestors for our next civilisation. It’s an arresting suggestion, and one that stems from willed optimism in the face of mounting difficulties. The book opens with a parched vision of the Aral Sea in what used to be Soviet Central Asia, a stark signifier of our cataclysmic present. Its feeder river the Amu Darya diverted by Soviet engineers to irrigate a vast basin of mechanised cotton production following the Second World War, the Aral Sea has all but dried up, shrunk to a tenth of its former size, its fishing fleet grounded, one of the world’s worst environmental disasters, a man-made desert and monument to the Promethean productivity of industrial agriculture. […]
To cite this article
Joe Guinan (2015) Bring back the Institute for Workers’ Control, Renewal, 23(4), -