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Greer John Michael |
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After progress : reason and religion at the end of the industrial age / / John Michael Greer |
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Gabriola Island, British Columbia : , : New Society Publishers, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index. |
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The noise of the gravediggers -- The shape of time -- The rock by Lake Silvaplana -- A peculiar absence of bellybones -- The god with the monkeywrench -- The far side of progress -- Life preservers for mermaids -- Religion resurgent -- At the closing of an age. |
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Progress is the God of the modern world. What happens once God is dead?Our society's worship of the idea of progress constitutes a formidable roadblock to successful adaptation to what our climate-changed, resource-depleted future has in store. John Michael Greer doesn't just identify that roadblockhe dynamites and bulldozes it, using his characteristically sharp wit and expansive knowledge of cultural history.---Richard Heinberg, author, The End of Growth an excellent introduction to Greer's insightful big-picture thinking grounded in an all-too-rare knowledge of history, ecology, and econo |
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UNINA9910686498703321 |
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Rickels Laurence A. |
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Critique of Fantasy . Volume 2 / / Laurence A. Rickels |
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Brooklyn, New York : , : Punctum Books, , 2020 |
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1 online resource (235 pages) |
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Fantasy literature |
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Science fiction |
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In the "Introduction; or, How Star Wars Became Our Oldest Cultural Memory" of the first volume of Critique of Fantasy, the gambit of a contest between science fiction and fantasy was already sketched out. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis aimed to separate the fantasy from the techno-science foregrounded in works by H.G. Wells, for example, and raise the fantasy or fairy-story to the power of an alternate adult literary genre. My study of the contest between the B-genres for ownership of the evolution of the social relation of art out of the condemned site of day dreaming required in the first place a reading apparatus, which the first volume derived from psychoanalytic theories of daydreaming's relationship to conscious thought, the unconscious, and artistic production as well as from their prehistory, the philosophies of dreams, ghosts, willing and wishing. |
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