In a world careening towards climate chaos nature is dead It can no longer be separated from society Everything is a blur of hybrids where humans possess no exceptional agency that sets them apart from dead matter But is it really so? In this blistering polemic & theoretical manifesto Andreas Malm develops a contrary argument in a warming world nature comes roaring back & it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural & the social Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable Deflating several prominent currents in contemporary theory-constructionism hybridism new materialism posthumanism-and submitting the influential work of Bruno Latour to particularly biting critique Malm shows that action against fossil fuels is best served by a theory that takes nature society & the dialectics between them very seriously indeed