Life is not useful / Ailton Krenak ; edited by Rita Carelli ; translated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex Brostoff.

Main entry:

Krenak, Ailton, author.

Title & Author:

Life is not useful / Ailton Krenak ; edited by Rita Carelli ; translated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex Brostoff.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

xxix, 64 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Critical South

Notes:
Collection of five texts adapted from lectures and interviews held between November 2017 and June 2020.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [62]-64).
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.
Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

"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"-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

150955405X (paperback)
9781509554058 (paperback)
9781509554041 (hardcover)
1509554041 (hardcover)
(ePub ebook)
9781509554065

Subject:

Philosophical anthropology.
COVID-19 (Disease)
Civilization, Modern 21st century.
Environmental degradation History 21st century.
Anthropologie philosophique.
COVID-19.
Civilisation 21e siècle.
Environnement Dégradation Histoire 21e siècle.
philosophical anthropology.
Civilization, Modern
Environmental degradation
environmental degradation.
Philosophy.

Added entries:

Carelli, Rita, 1984- editor.
Pinheiro-Dias, Jamille, translator.
Brostoff, Alex, translator.
Critical South.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318387
Call No.: 318387
Copy: 1
Status: External loan

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