[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted/nonfiction
- From: Lisa Cushman <crysania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:21:22 -0700
You submit great liberal/radical books. If I can get myself out of my SF
fantasy comfort zone, I will check one of them out.
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On Mar 24, 2013, at 4:47 PM, "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just submitted for proofing "Nature and Experience in the Culture of
> Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch With Reality" by David W. Kidner.
>
> It's been read and spell-checked. All headers stripped, page numbers/section
> titles present, fonts adjusted, footnotes formatted.
> 327 pages.
>
> Description:
> Industrialism has alienated us from nature, disconnected us from our own
> embodiment, and blinded us the character of the technological society we have
> ourselves produced. This book brings together ideas and research from both
> social and natural sciences to throw light on the hidden dimensions of
> industrial life, showing how the emerging global economic system has
> dissolved our embodied subjectivity into industrial processes. The symbolic
> abilities that have allowed us to dominate all other creatures have now
> entrapped us within systems that we do not understand and have little control
> over, making us as vulnerable to the extension of economic and technological
> ideologies as our ancestors were to the natural threats that surrounded them.
> If we are to regain our humanity and integrity, the essential first step,
> outlined in this book, is to recognise and challenge the sources of our own
> powerlessness.
>
> Deborah
>
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