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Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California. He has published several books questioning contemporary society and values, including The Culture of Make Believe and A Language Older Than Words, and many essays. He has also taught creative writing at Pelican Bay State Prison and Eastern Washington University. This work is copyrighted. ...
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Aerial view of Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
Like Ward Churchill, Chellis Glendinning, Inga Muscio, Terry Tempest Williams, and John Zerzan, Jensen argues that industrial culture is hopelessly destructive. He regularly calls upon his audiences on college campuses to help bring an end to industrial civilization and what he sees as the unsustainable promotion of economic growth at the expense of the natural environment and indigenous peoples. Photo of Ward Churchill from University of Colorado faculty web page Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, political activist, and academic. ...
Inga Muscio is a third wave feminist writer and public speaker. ...
Terry Tempest Williams is the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. ...
John Zerzan John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. ...
Industrialisation (or industrialization) or an industrial revolution (in general, with lowercase letters) is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state . ...
He is often labeled an anarcho-primitivist, by which is meant he believes that civilization is inherently unsustainable and based on violence. A Language Older Than Words uses the lens of domestic violence to look at the larger violence of the culture. The Culture of Make Believe begins by exploring racism and misogyny and moves to examine how this culture’s economic system leads inevitably to hatred and atrocity. Strangely Like War is about deforestation. Walking on Water is about education (It begins: "As is true for most people I know, I’ve always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?"). Welcome to the Machine is about surveillance, and more broadly about science and this culture’s obsession with control. This article is about anarcho-primitivism. ...
His latest work, Endgame, is about what he describes as the inherent unsustainability of civilization. In that book he asks: "Do you believe that this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?" Nearly everyone he talks to says no. His next question is: "how would this understanding—that this culture will not voluntarily stop destroying the natural world, eliminating indigenous cultures, exploiting the poor, and killing those who resist—shift our strategy and tactics? The answer? Nobody knows, because we never talk about it: we’re too busy pretending the culture will undergo a magical transformation." Endgame, he says, is "about that shift in strategy, and in tactics." Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance Endgame is a two-volume work by Derrick Jensen, published in 2006, which argues that civilization is inherently unsustainable and addresses the resulting normative question of what to do about it. ...
Jensen's writing uses the first-person and interweaves personal experiences with cited facts to construct the arguments. His books are written like narratives, lacking a linear, hierarchical structure. They are not divided into distinct sections devoted to an individual argument. Instead, his writing is conversational, leaving one line of thought incomplete to move on to another and returning to it later on. Jensen uses this creative non-fiction style to combine his artistic voice with logical argument. ...
Creative nonfiction is a genre of literature, also known as literary journalism and narrative journalism, which uses literary skills in the writing of nonfiction. ...
Jensen's work catalogues what he perceives as the pervasiveness of abuse, hatred, rape, environmental destruction and other social problems, and the role of dishonesty in maintaining systematic oppression. He concludes that the pervasiveness of these behaviours indicates that they are diagnostic symptoms of the greater problem of civilization itself. Accordingly, he argues that there is an urgent need to bring down civilization. Social issues are matters that can be explained only by factors outside an individual’s control and immediate environment. ...
Jensen proposes that a different, harmonious way of life is possible, and that it can be seen in many past societies including many Native American or other indigenous cultures. He claims that many indigenous peoples perceive a primary difference between Western and indigenous perspectives: even the most open-minded Westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world works. Furthermore, these indigenous peoples understand the world as consisting of other beings with whom we can enter into relationship; this stands opposed to the more Western belief that the world consists of objects or resources to be exploited or used.
Related authors include Jack Forbes (Columbus and Other Cannibals), Dave Edwards, Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, The Man Who Grew Young), John Zerzan (Against Civilization: A Reader and Elements of Refusal), Neil Evernden (The Natural Alien), Stanley Diamond (In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization) and Lewis Mumford (Technics and Human Development and The Pentagon of Power). Christopher Columbus (1451?-1506) was a navigator and maritime explorer credited as the discoverer of the Americas. ...
Daniel Quinn (born 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a United States writer. ...
Ishmael is a novel by Daniel Quinn. ...
John Zerzan John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. ...
Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science, also noted for his study of cities. ...
Partial list of published works
- Derrick Jensen, Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros, 1995, 2002
- ----, George Draffan, and John Osborn, Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress's 1864 Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grant, Spokane: Inland Empire Public Lands Council, 1995
- ---- A Language Older Than Words, 2000
- ---- The Culture of Make Believe, New York: Context Books, 2002, ISBN 1-893956-28-8, LoC HT1523.J46 2002
- ---- and George Draffan, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests, 2003
- ---- Standup Tragedy (live CD)
- ---- The Other Side of Darkness (live CD), 2004
- ---- Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution, 2004
- ---- and George Draffan, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control, 2004
- ---- Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization, 2006
- ---- Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance, 2006
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Northern Pacific Railway Categories: Stub | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | Idaho railroads | Minnesota railroads | Montana railroads | North Dakota railroads | Oregon railroads | Washington railroads | Wisconsin railroads ...
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance Endgame is a two-volume work by Derrick Jensen, published in 2006, which argues that civilization is inherently unsustainable and addresses the resulting normative question of what to do about it. ...
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance Endgame is a two-volume work by Derrick Jensen, published in 2006, which argues that civilization is inherently unsustainable and addresses the resulting normative question of what to do about it. ...
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