Life Is Not Useful

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead. To awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming attuned to "the cosmic sense of life." He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called "human" lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Brostoff, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, KRENAK, a Krenak, A. Krenak, Ailton Krenak
• Assisted by: Natalia Brizuela (Introduction), Alex Brostoff (Translation), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781509554058
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5405-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Literaturwissenschaft, Anthropologie, Umweltforschung, Literature, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, Postcolonial Theory, Theorie der Postkolonialzeit, Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie, Spezialthemen Umweltforschung, Environmental Studies Special Topics