Against the machine : on the unmaking of humanity / Paul Kingsnorth.
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, novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original--and terrifying--account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful 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 game--and how your very soul is at stake. It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. ...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, poetic, and erudite, "Against the Machine" is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593850633
- ISBN: 0593850637
- Physical Description: xix, 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Thesis, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: Caught in the Web of Its Song -- Part One: The Western Deviation -- The Dream of the Rood -- The Great Unsettling -- The Faustian Fire -- Part Two: Divining the Machine -- Blanched Sun, Blinded Man -- A Monster That Grows in Deserts -- A Thousand Mozarts -- Do What Thou Wilt -- The Great Wen -- Want Is the Acid -- Come the Black Ships -- You Are Harvest -- Part Three: The Hollowing. Exodus -- Kill All the Heroes -- Down the River -- In the Desert of the Real -- The Abolition of Man (and Woman) -- Keep the Home Fires Burning -- The Nation and the Grid -- The Fourth Revolution -- What Progress Wants -- God in the Age of Iron -- The Universal -- Part Four: The Savage Reservation -- The West Must Die -- Against Progress -- The Jellyfish Tribe -- The Neon God -- The Raindance.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 303.483 KIN (Text) | 36015002706600 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/10/2026 |
| Albemarle Main Library | 303.483 Kin (Text) | 31010000911794 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
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| Harold D. Cooley Library | 303.48 KIN (Text) | 20100000028262 | Adult New Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | 303.483 Kingsnorth (Text) | 33115007736613 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 303.483 K (Text) | 33258010505598 | Adult New Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| High Point Library | 303.483 Kingsnorth (Text) | 30519010980681 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
| Jackson County Public Library | 303.483 K (Text) | 39493109550543 | Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Leland Library | 303.483 KIN (Text) | 31423621427316 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/25/2026 |
