Derrick Jensen è un autore e attivista ambientale americano il cui lavoro interroga profondamente la società contemporanea e i suoi valori. Attraverso la sua scrittura, sfida le norme consolidate ed espone i loro impatti distruttivi sul mondo che ci circonda. Le sue opere servono come un invito a rivalutare il nostro rapporto con la natura e con noi stessi, concentrandosi sulla scoperta di strutture di potere nascoste e sulle conseguenze degli stili di vita consumistici. Lo stile di Jensen è penetrante e spinge i lettori a riflettere sui principi fondamentali su cui si basa la nostra civiltà.
In questo libro quindici autorevoli giornalisti propongono una visione critica del mercato mondiale. In questo panorama nulla sfugge alla vendita: dalla democrazia all'informazione, dalla natura alla guerra. Tutto ha un prezzo e tutto è merce.
In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore reminding us that our bodies are made of mountains, rivers, and sunlight; or Vine Deloria asserting that our dreams tell us more about the world than science ever can, the activists and philosophers interviewed in How Shall I Live My Life? each bravely present a few of the endless forms that resistance can and must take.
The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
Bright Green Lies systematically debunks many of the lies and distortions that characterize the discourse of those who argue that 'technology will stop global warming' or that 'technology will save the planet.
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes. Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined to fight for this planet—and win.
A Language Older than Words tells of the extraordinary journey of one man striving to save his own spirit and that of our planet. Comparing his physically and sexually abusive father's destruction of his family with mankind's systematic destruction of civilisation, Jensen uses his experiences as a teacher, environmentalist, beekeeper, abused child and survivor to investigate his own wounded psyche, as well as condemning a culture that fosters abuse.
Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution.
Současní přední myslitelé z oblasti ekofilosofie a kultury udržitelnosti – David Abram, Derrick Jensen, Freya Mathews, Andreas Weber a Hildegarda Kurt – uvažují o tom, jak by bylo možné naši současnou postindustriální civilizaci, která nás přivedla na samotný práh enviromentálního rozvratu, ekologicky transformovat. Kladou si otázku, jak se od dominujícího vzorce kontroly a ovládání posunout k modu vzájemnosti a synergie se světem. Respektive jak bychom se jako lidská společnost mohli znovu začlenit do přírody; jakými způsoby bychom naše touhy a přání mohli sjednotit s touhami a potřebami biosféry tak, aby podporovaly její další možnou regeneraci a rozkvět a nikoli její ničení. Všichni se přitom shodují v tom, že nejde jen o „udržení“ reality světa tak, jak ji dnes chápeme. Jde o její radikální znovuoživení, o nové porozumění tomu, co je to život a jakou roli v něm hrajeme. O znovuobjevování subjektivity a poetiky mimolidského světa, jinými slovy – o animistický či panpsychistický obrat v udržitelnosti.
Fortsetzung von "Endgame": hier die radikale gewaltlose Vernichtung der Zivilisation zur Rettung der Erde
