{"product_id":"against-the-machine-on-the-unmaking-of-humanity","title":"Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, \"furiously gifted\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Writing in the tradition of Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil, 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, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Machine \u003c\/i\u003eis the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most powerful and important book I have read in years. This book should be required reading not only for politicians, technocrats, teachers and all who help shape our world, but for every still-living soul in this terrifying age of the Machine.\" --Iain McGilchrist, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Master and His Emissary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Something in our common life has long seemed bewildering, even ominous, and Paul Kingsnorth makes it finally clear what we're up against. The gears clanking around us are not working at random, but with increasingly inhuman intent. Now I see what I must do. Now I understand.\" --Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an eloquent and erudite critique of the perils of modern technology. But it's much more than that. It's a searching, moving meditation on the fate of humanity in a world where money and mechanism have displaced meaning.\" --Nicholas Carr, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuperbloom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shallows\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Thank God for Paul Kingsnorth! Serious, furious, and always consistent, this is a Christian thinker who does not sugarcoat his convictions.\" --Justin Smith-Ruiu, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Internet Is Not What You Think It Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Kingsnorth has done something extraordinary: he has captured the spiritual crisis of our time in language so compelling I could not put the book down. The vision he paints is a bleak one: a post-human, machinic future. But as long as our world still has space for voices this vivid, I dare hope we have not yet succumbed to the Machine.\"--Mary Harrington, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeminism Against Progress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Kingsnorth\u003c\/strong\u003e is an English writer and thinker living in the west of Ireland. He is the author of ten books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549866516666,"sku":"9780593850633","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_f7f01bd1-7dcb-4917-96bd-9f7962bca162.jpg?v=1769771401","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/against-the-machine-on-the-unmaking-of-humanity","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}