![]() ![]() Using extreme-but far from impossible-projections from current climate science, Robinson posits that the melting icecaps in Antarctica and Greenland have caused sea levels to rise by 50 to 60 feet. The difference is that much of the city is underwater. New York 2140 imagines a future for this city that is very different from its present in one way, and very much the same in another. Robinson is both a Marxist a great writer of speculative fiction. Since we're here to consider a work of art dealing with the financial crisis, I thought I'd talk a bit about one of the best works of financial crisis art, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. He would therefore be disappointed to find that he and his ideas had still not been rendered irrelevant. I am of the camp that believes that Marx concluded, in his mature thought, that the theoretical system he had developed was suitable and necessary for understanding the capitalist mode of production, and for no other historical period or type of society. Marx would probably be amused and a bit distressed to have pride of place here. ![]() Thank you for coming, and to Kathy for inviting me. The unveiling of the photo, Susanne Slavick at left, artist Alberto Jaar at right ![]()
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