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Bolygótudat, bioszferikus kormányzás, klímaigazságosság
Planetary consciousness, biospherical governance, climatic rightfulness

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future

Author(s): Ottó Beke, Anna Kiss
Subject(s): Social development, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Debreceni Egyetem Politikatudományi és Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: Kim Stanley Robinson; The Ministry for the Future; climate change; capitalism

Summary/Abstract: Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future was published in 2020. The novel is the sequel to the New York 2140 science fiction dystopian novel. The conceptual continuation presents a vision of unsustainable capitalism that functions via endless expansion. The Ministry for the Future brings into focus the outcome of externalities of capitalism: climate change and its effects on societies and individuals. The study emphasis on critique of capitalism, of mass production and mass consumption, at the same time it points at the techno-optimism in The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. The analysis of appearance of climate change in the novel is interdisciplinary, the study’s approach is scientific and empirical.

  • Issue Year: 12/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-28
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian
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