When We Are Human by John Zerzan

When We Are Human

Notes From the Age of Pandemics

John Zerzan

Feral House · Print & ebook · July 23, 2021

These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis.

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Genres
Environmental Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology, Technology & Society
Published
Feral House, July 23, 2021

About this book

These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls for radically new thinking if there is to be any hope of renewal. When We Are Human offers thought at a necessary and primal level. All previous civilizations have failed, and now there's just one global civilization, which is starkly, grandly failing.

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To deny or avoid this fact is to remain in the sphere of the superficial, the irrelevant. The physical environment is reaching the catastrophe stage as the seas warm, rise, acidify, and fill with plastics. Icebergs ahead and floating past beachgoers idly watching the planet die. So much is failing, so much is interrelated in the technosphere of ever-greater dependence and estrangement. Social existence, now strangely isolated, is beset by mass shootings, rising suicide rates, slipping longevity, loneliness, anxiety, and the maddening stream of lies and concocted politics. Zerzan trains his passionate focus on several fields of discourse: anthropology, history, philosophy, technology, psychology, and the spiritual. Points of light that become a kaleidoscope refracting new insights and contributing an overall picture of late civilization.

Where it sits

Environmental Philosophy35%
Technology & Society31%
Cultural Anthropology29%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Philosophy Writing
  • Anarchism
  • Tech & Society
Authors
John Zerzan
Publisher
Feral House
Published
July 23, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Philosophy Writing