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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead. To awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming attuned to “the cosmic sense of life.” He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called “human” lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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Table of Contents
Cover
Series Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
About this Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Natalia Brizuela
The cosmic sense of life
Awakening
Listening with the collective-constellation
Notes
You Can’t Eat Money
Notes
Dreams to Postpone the End of the World
Notes
The Thing-Making Machine
Notes
Tomorrow is Not for Sale
Notes
Life is Not Useful
Notes
References
Books and articles
Poems and songs
Film and video
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
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Series Title
Critical South
The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Series editors: Natalia Brizuela, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, and Leticia Sabsay
Leonor Arfuch,
Memory and Autobiography
Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia,
Seven Essays on Populism
Aimé Césaire,
Resolutely Black
Bolívar Echeverría,
Modernity and “Whiteness”
Diego Falconí Trávez,
From Ashes to Text
Celso Furtado,
The Myth of Economic Development
Eduardo Grüner,
The Haitian Revolution
Ailton Krenak,
Life is Not Useful
Premesh Lalu,
Undoing Apartheid
Karima Lazali,
Colonia Trauma
María Pia López,
Not One Less
Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr,
The Politics of Time
Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr,
To Write the Africa World
Valentin Y. Mudimbe,
The Scent of the Father
Pablo Oyarzun,
Doing Justice
Néstor Perlongher,
Plebeian Prose
Bento Prado Jr.,
Error, Illusion, Madness
Nelly Richard,
Eruptions of Memory
Suely Rolnik,
Spheres of Insurrection
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui,
Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Tendayi Sithole,
The Black Register
Maboula Soumahoro,
Black is the Journey, Africana the Name
Dénètem Touam Bona
, Fugitive, Where Are You Running?
Life is Not Useful
Ailton Krenak
Translated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex Brostoff
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Copyright Page
First published in Portuguese as A vida não é útil © 2020, Ailton Krenak
Published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo International Rights Management: Susanna Lea Associates
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About the Author
Ailton Krenak was born in 1953 in the Doce River valley region, a territory of the Krenak people and a place whose ecology has been severely impacted by mining. An activist in the socio-environmental movement and in defense of Indigenous rights, he organized the Aliança dos Povos da Floresta (Alliance of Forest Peoples), which unites riverine and Indigenous communities in the Amazon. He is one of the most prominent leaders of the movement that emerged from the Indigenous Awakening in the 1970s in Brazil, and he also contributed to the creation of the Union of Indigenous Nations (UNI). He has done extensive educational and environmental work as a journalist and in video and television programs. His struggles in the 1970s and 1980s were decisive for the inclusion of the chapter on Indigenous rights in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, which guaranteed Indigenous rights to ancestral homelands and culture, at least on paper. He is the co-author of the UNESCO proposal that created the Serra do Espinhaço Biosphere Reserve in 2005 and is a member of its managing committee. He was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit of the Presidency of the Republic in 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais in 2016, and in 2022 he was a recipient of the Prince Claus Impact Award. He is also the author of Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (House of Anansi Press, 2020).
