There's an expression in academia: publish or perish. Faculty must keep publishing new material in order to succeed in an academic career, and that leads to a lot of shoddy work being put out. This book is one of them. This is basically a collection of random musings jotted down and published. Connolly has written three essays in this book about climate change and the link to fascism. Along the way, he has time to talk about various philosophers and writers, drawing links between people like Mary Shelley, Sophocles, and Deleuze. He reshapes their narratives, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, into allegories for climate change. Now, all this is perfectly fine, except for the fact that he does it terribly. The flow between the various names that he drops is awful. Just because one can say assemblage this, assemblage that, doesn't make one a good Deleuzian.

The most offensive thing, though, was the third essay, which imagines a dialogue between Michel Foucault and Alfred Whitehead. Oh, how he massacred the two! In this dialogue, Whitehead begins rambling about the character of Kirsten Dunst in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Foucault says nonsense like "I doubt that we would become drinking buddies if we found our way back into the world today. But I appreciate the exploratory, adventurous, creative, and caring persona you cultivate as well as your sense that to come to terms with a new world we need to fold the bumpy trajectories of multiple planetary processes more actively into philosophy, the humanities, the human sciences, and cross-regional citizen activism." Connolly's mock dialogue is a mock dialogue indeed, for it mocks the intellect of the two intellectuals.