"Ailton Krenak's ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book." -- Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene. From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society's flawed concept of "humanity" -- that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please. To stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of "dreaming" that allows us to regain our place within nature. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he shows us the way.&nbsp;

Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

Politics & Social Sciences

KRENAK, AILTON

Social Sciences

Anansi International

Life Is Not Useful

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.

Life Is Not Useful (Critical South)

Business & Money

Economics

Polity

Anthropology

Ancestral Future (Critical South)

In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact. Capitalism encroaches on every corner of the planet and orients us toward a future of promised progress, achievement and growth, but this future doesn't exist - we just imagine it.&nbsp; This orientation to the future also blinds us to what exists around us, to the plants and animals with which we share the Earth and to the rivers that flow through our lands.&nbsp; Rivers are not just resources to be exploited by us or channels to carry away our waste, they are beings that connect us with our past.&nbsp; If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral, since it is already present in the here and now and in that which exists around us, in the rivers and mountains and trees that are our kin. In a spoken language that has the mark of ancestral oral wisdom, Krenak offers a new perspective that challenges and disrupts some of the assumptions that underpin Western attitudes and mentalities.&nbsp; His work will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the climate crisis and the worsening plight of our planet.

A ideia de futuro por vezes nos assombra com cenários apocalípticos. Por outras, ela se apresenta como possibilidade de redenção, como se todos os problemas do presente pudessem ser magicamente resolvidos depois. Em ambos os casos, as ilusões nos afastam do que está ao nosso redor. Nesta nova coleção de textos, produzidos entre 2020 e 2021, Ailton Krenak nos provoca com a radicalidade de seu pensamento insurgente, que demove o senso comum e invoca o maravilhamento. Diz ele: “Os rios, esses seres que sempre habitaram os mundos em diferentes formas, são quem me sugerem que, se há futuro a ser cogitado, esse futuro é ancestral, porque já estava aqui.

Futuro ancestral (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Difel

Ailton Krenak - Encontros (Portuguese Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Oca Brazilian Culture LLC

Futuro ancestral

Taurus

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