Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist, an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on sustainability rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change.Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorths thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls dark ecology, which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. Provocative and urgent, iconoclastic and fearless, this ultimately hopeful book - which includes the much-discussed Uncivilization manifesto - poses hard questions about how weve lived and how we should live.

The stunning new novel from the prize-winning author of The Wake.Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing.Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we dont yet know; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something that he begins to see in the margins of his vision ...Beast is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth. Shocking and exhilarating, it confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.

Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.TelegraphBeckett doing Beowulf.London Review of BooksOne thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earths only human survivors.But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria. A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorths new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buccmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorths prize-winning The Wake.

A small religious community is living in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world's last human survivors. Now, they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, a force intent on destroying everything they stand for.Set on the far side of the ecological apocalypse, Paul Kingsnorth's new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine versus man - of whether to put your faith in the present or the future.Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning The Wake.

Una reduïda comunitat d’homes i dones habiten els paratges pantanosos que temps enrere formaven Anglaterra. Són probablement els darrers supervivents de la civilització. Oculta entre els boscos, una

Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of BooksOne thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth's only human survivors.But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria.A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth's new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning The Wake.

From the 2014 Man BookerPrizelonglisted author comes an impassioned journey to the heart of the Global Resistance Movement. It could turn out to be the biggest political movement of the twenty-first century: a global coalition of millions, united in resisting an out-of-control global economy, and already building alternatives to it. It emerged in Mexico in 1994, when the Zapatista rebels rose up in defiance of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The West first noticed it in Seattle in 1999, when the World Trade Organisation was stopped in its tracks by 50,000 protesters. Since then, it has flowered all over the world, every month of every year. The anti-capitalist street protests we see in the media are only the tip of its iceberg. It aims to shake the foundations of the global economy, and change the course of history. But what exactly is it? Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? To find out, Paul Kingsnorth travelled across four continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement. In the process, he was tear-gassed on the streets of Genoa, painted anti-WTO puppets in Johannesburg, met a tribal guerrilla with supernatural powers, took a hot bath in Arizona with a pie-throwing anarchist and infiltrated the worlds biggest gold mine in New Guinea. Along the way, he found a new political movement and a new political idea. Not socialism, not capitalism, not any ism at all, it is united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it wants instead -- a politics of one no, many yeses. This movement may yet change the world. This book tells its story.

Un manifiesto, una investigación, un libro de viajes, una presentación de la nueva política de resistencia: la Antiglobalización.El movimiento Antiglobalización: ¿Qué, es exactamente? Paul Kingsnorth ha viajado a lo largo de cuatro continentes y a los epicentros del movimiento para intentar definir y mostrar la autentica envergadura, la vigencia, de esta rebeldia. Lo que encontro es un movimiento politico basado en una idea totalmente nueva, una politica de 'un no y muchos sies'.Podria ser el movimiento politico mas importante del siglo XXI; una coalicion de millones de personas, unidas para resistir una economia global fuera de control porque es controlada por muy pocos.

Paul Kingsnorth fue durante muchos años un activista comprometido con la lucha por el medio ambiente. A través de todo tipo de proyectos, acciones e intervenciones, se enfrentó al desarrollo industrial desenfrenado y a las depredaciones de un mundo empresarial empeñado en ignorar la crisis climática. Pero, con el paso de los años y al constatar que el movimiento ecologista comenzaba a centrarse en la idea de la «sostenibilidad» (en lugar de dedicarse a una auténtica defensa de la naturaleza salvaje), llegó el desencanto. Esto, unida a las incontrovertibles evidencias científicas relativas al cambio climático y la ausencia de reacción global entre la ciudadanía del primer mundo, le llevó a buscar un cambio de perspectiva radical que renueve la relación del ser humano con la naturaleza.

*New York Times bestseller*How a force thats hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, furiously gifted (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly originaland terrifyingaccount 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 the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long gameand how your very soul is at stake. It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Here Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic and poetic, Against the Machine is a spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.