Life Is Not Useful

Informationen zum Autor Ailton Krenak was born in the Doce River valley region (a territory of the Krenak people) in Brazil, and is an educational and environmental activist. He is a prominent leader in the movement for Indigenous rights. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the author About this book Acknowledgements Introduction - Natalia Brizuela You Can't Eat Money Dreams to Postpone the End of the World The Thing-Making Machine Tomorrow is Not for Sale Life is Not Useful

Product details

• Authors: KRENAK, a Krenak, Ailton Krenak
• Assisted by: Natalia Brizuela (Introduction), Alex Brostoff (Translation), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781509554041
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5404-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; 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