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Against the Machine On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paperback • 2025 • English

Against the Machine On the Unmaking of Humanity

By Paul Kingsnorth

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About the book

How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original--and terrifying--account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying t...Show more

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ISBN

9780241788400

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Published year

2025

Language

English

Original title

Against the Machine On the Unmaking of Humanity

Format

Paperback

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