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Titre:
Life is not useful

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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.

Titre:
Ancestral future

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In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact. In a spoken language that has the mark of ancestral oral wisdom, Krenak offers a new perspective that challenges and disrupts some of the assumptions that underpin Western attitudes and mentalities. His work will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the climate crisis and the worsening plight of our planet.

Titre:
Idées pour retarder la fin du monde

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Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Sud ont connu une forme de fin du monde au XVIe siècle après l'invasion de leurs terres par les Européens. Dans ce petit livre Ailton Krenak, figure éminente des luttes autochtones du Brésil, se demande en quoi cet héritage ne pourrait pas fournir un regard averti pour affronter les conséquences du nouveau régime climatique de l'Anthropocène. Cette parole, véritable anthropologie inversée, se situe au lieu d'un renversement de perspectives : avec la mutation en cours des conditions du maintien de la vie sur Terre, ne serait-ce pas l'humanité organisée sur les fondements de la modernité dont il serait plus à craindre qu'elle soit démunie des facultés d'adaptation requises ? Tout compte fait, ne serait-ce pas plutôt les peuples autochtones, par leurs ancestrales stratégies de résistance, qui pourraient indiquer une voie susceptible de retarder l'avancée « du désert et de la dévastation » engendrée par le surdéveloppement technocapitaliste ?

Titre:
Ideas to postpone the end of the world

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Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” — that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please. To stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of “dreaming” that allows us to regain our place within nature. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he shows us the way