Name: SOLD OUT Paul Kingsnorth AGAINST THE MACHINE with Rupert Read
Start: 2025-11-18T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-18T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Blackwell's Bookshop

How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human.
About this Event

Against the Machine

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original-and terrifying-account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With 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.It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Here 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 and poetic, Against the Machine is a spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.

Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.

Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction, notably the Buccmaster Trilogy, tends to be mythological and multi-layered.

Rupert Read

Emeritus Prof. Rupert Read, Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project (www.climatemajorityproject.com ) is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project.