ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers some general theoretical considerations about, the "production of nature" thesis within Marxist geography so as to point to some possible future directions for Marxist thinking about produced nature. He argues that Marxist geography needs to undertake a partial "reinvention" of its conceptualization of nature, that is, a rethinking of what is captured and entailed by that loaded term. The author's review of the aphasias of Marxism concerning the materiality of nature might be considered typical — at least by many greens — of Marxism's anthropocentric, even Promethean inflections. Marxism has, in its various forms, long contested traditional epistemological realisms by offering a theory of knowledge production grounded in the dialectical relation between the theorist and society and nature. Cultural studies of scientific knowledge offer a powerful vehicle through which people can discern nature in theoretical discourse.
