Wolf-Meyer's Theory for the World to Come is certainly dark in many ways, emphasizing as it does the ways the human species has created the conditions of its own destruction. But that darkness acts as an imperative to confront our failures of imagination, and Theory for the World to Come's strategy of connecting personal experience to pressing socio-political concerns and then turning to speculative fiction for ways to reimagine the future achieves that goal. 

Read the whole review in journal issue 30.2.