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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ailton Krenak, KRENAK, Alex Brostoff, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, a Krenak, A. Krenak
• Con la collaborazione di: Natalia Brizuela (Introduzione), Alex Brostoff (Traduzione), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Traduzione)
• Editore: Polity Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2023
• Categoria: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781509554058
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5405-8
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.8 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
• Categorie: Literaturwissenschaft, Anthropologie, Umweltforschung, Literature, Latin America, Brazil, Coronavirus, Resistance, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Covid-19, growth, Social & cultural anthropology, Activism, Indigenous, Greed, Postcolonial Theory, Consumerism, Civilization, Theorie der Postkolonialzeit, Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie, Spezialthemen Umweltforschung, Environmental Studies Special Topics