From Richard Seymour, one of the UK’s leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world.
A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that is also a sleep-walking, unsteadily weaving between history, earth science, psychoanalysis, evolution, biology, art and politics. A search for transcendence, beyond the illusory eternal present.
These essays chronicle the kindling of ecological consciousness in a confessed ignoramus. They track the first enchantment of the author, his striving to comprehend the coming catastrophe, and his attempt to formulate a new global sensibility in which we value anew what unconditionally matters.
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In Conversation with Richard Seymour
https://jacobin.com/2022/04/richard-seymour-disenchanted-earth-book-review-climate-crisis/
" - Tank Magazine
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Six New Books for Activists
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ecosocialist-bookshelf-april-2022
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Review - The Collapse of Our Natural World Won’t Be Like a Hollywood Disaster Movie
‘This is a persuasive call for a new, radical understanding.’
https://jacobin.com/2022/04/richard-seymour-disenchanted-earth-book-review-climate-crisis/
" - Jacobin
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An ecological awakening - A collection of essays by a leading Marxist thinker moves Russell Warfield
'Richard remains one of the sharpest thinkers and most stylish writers on the contemporary Marxist left...never less that interesting and insightful.'
https://twitter.com/PressIndigoThe/status/1562400612498767872?s=20&t=HgMDLOmULR890sydOrjSNg
" - Resurgaence and Ecologist magazine
