Extracting the Future:The Socialist Anthropocene through Artists’ Eyes

Fowkes, Maja and Fowkes, Reuben (2025) Extracting the Future:The Socialist Anthropocene through Artists’ Eyes. In: Anti-Atlas. UCL Press, pp. 167-172. ISBN 9781800087811

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Abstract

What was the relationship between actually-existing socialism and nature? Did socialism ‘destroy’ nature? Did it seek maniacal ‘mastery’ over nature? Or was there in fact a lived, practised (and centrally planned) ecological, even proto-anthropocenic, sensibility to the socialist project, even in its most seemingly vicious Lysenkoite phases? This entry by Maja and Reuben Fowkes – gathering its ‘data’ from an analysis of socialist realist artworks – profiles the ‘socialist Anthropocene’ as a fluid but discrete spatial terrain; a continent on which the high modern project of conquering and accommodating nature ran a corollary but distinct course from that of the Western capitalist world.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Related URLs:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.17102166... https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2025 15:30
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2025 01:01
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100798
DOI:	10.14324/111.9781800087811

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