MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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INDRA DONFRANCESCO applauds a persuasive argument that community-based economies offer a realistic strategy to reclaim political agency
CORPORATE DICTAT: Little concern for food safety, nutrition or health
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ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
Breaking Together
Jem Bendell, Good Works, £16.99
WHILE mainstream green narratives seem to be stuck on “time is running out,” they skip over details like “time for whom to do what, or else what.” In that light, a new book from a sociology professor is a welcome contribution to our political imagination — blazing a new trail in “post-doom” politics and activism.
The first half of Breaking Together offers powerful arguments, if you need them, that our civilisation has passed its peak.
Summarising the scholarship on food, energy, ecology, and debt, Jem Bendell shows that these systems are already undergoing a process of collapse. Many of us might wish that this crisis can be fixed by the “people in charge.” But Bendell invites us to drop such fanciful ideas.
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