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Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make
Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his
powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an
exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between
the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's
death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of
the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is
a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with
conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.
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.
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A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane, acting out a
misogynist script from the dark heart of this culture. Across town,
a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the
reasons--political, psychological, spiritual--for the sadism of
modern civilization. And through the grim nights, Nika, a
trafficked woman, tries to survive the grinding violence of
prostitution. Their lives, and the forces propelling them, are
about to collide. Derrick's current project is a book called
Possession, which asks the ontological question of who is
responsible for the culture of domination that's destroying the
earth. Who actually benefits from a dead planet, the endgame that's
fast approaching? What if the answer is something way bigger than
humans? Meanwhile, with motivations opposite to Derrick's, the
serial killer is asking much the same question of the women he
kidnaps as his final act of possession--and Nika is next. Derrick's
metaphysical explorations suddenly take on more urgency as visions
both terrifying and sacred begin to intrude, and past and future
collapse without warning. All Derrick knows is Nika's name and her
impending death. The only person who believes him is his partner
Allison, a woman with both strengths and scars, whose past has led
her to a commitment to justice no matter what the cost. As the
visions intensify and the killer draws nearer, Derrick and Allison
are compelled to act, making themselves the next targets. Derrick
must learn to negotiate a world of spirits and demons, living and
dead, before it's too late. And what hangs in the balance is not
just their lives, but also the fate of life on earth. With Songs of
the Dead, Derrick Jensen has written more than a thriller. This is
a story lush with rage and tenderness on its way to being a weapon.
'Deep Green Resistance' starts where the environmental movement
leaves off: industrial civilisation is incompatible with life. To
save this planet, a serious resistance movement is needed, one that
can bring down the industrial economy.
Derrick Jensen has spent years on the front lines resisting
environmental devastation with one acclaimed work after another.
Now, newcomers and die-hard fans alike can find his most
electrifying writings in this single volume that spans his
celebrated career.
Putting corporate disregard for ecology on trial, this novel
follows Vexcorp, a wealthy corporation that, at a safe distance,
counts both the lives of others and the health of the environment
as expenses on a balance sheet--but that distance is about to
collapse. Malia is an activist who has lost faith in systemic
reform, and Dujuan is a street thug torn by grief at his younger
sister's death. When Dujuan mugs Malia, she compares him to
Vexcorp, triggering a storm inside him. That storm only clears when
he identifies the real agent of his pain: Larry Gordon, Vexcorp's
CEO. Injury requires justice, so Dujuan kidnaps Gordon and presents
him to Malia for judgment. As bystanders become involved and time
runs out, Malia is forced to make grueling moral decisions between
survival and loyalty, safety and courage, and agency and
despair.
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