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Title: Life Is Not Useful
Condition: New
EAN: 9781509554058
ISBN: 9781509554058
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/03/2023
Description:

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.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 139mm
Item Width: 8mm
Item Weight: 142g
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math
Author: Ailton Krenak
Translator: Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Alex Brostoff
Contributor: Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Translated by), Alex Brostoff (Translated by)
Release Year: 2023

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