Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture is an important collection of in-depth interviews that prolific author Derrick Jensen conducted with a handful of radical thinkers you should become more familiar with if you’re not already.
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AK Press Working Classics Series
May 12, 2011
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Anyone looking to educate themselves on the history and principles of anarchism should look no further for a starting place than the books in AK Press’s Working Classics series. The series as a whole represents some of the finest writings on anarchist theory and practice ever published
Lives Less Valuable
December 15, 2010
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Using art as a medium, or platform, for ideological proselytizing has always been a difficult process for the artist. Will the political content outweigh and compromise the aesthetics, or will the artist’s style dilute and deflate the message? Derrick Jensen walks a fine line in his fiction; as a radical political thinker and primitivist evangelist, he is peerless.
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
October 15, 2010
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It’s no secret that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have designed their environmental policy to fit a full-speed-ahead exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands. It’s important, therefore, to have an understanding of the industry’s environmental impact.
Generation A and The Year of the Flood
October 10, 2010
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Information is important, but stories are essential. While scientists can tell us about the extinction of species and the loss of Arctic sea ice, we need stories to help us make sense of these events.
Songs of the Dead
September 22, 2010
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Derrick Jensen is particularly skilled in finding new ways to say the same old thing: this guy has been hammering away at industrial civilization in print for years now, and he always finds a new approach, a different tack, for each of his books.
Resistance Against Empire
July 21, 2010
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Derrick Jensen just won’t quit, that’s for sure. The word “prolific” doesn’t really do Jensen’s output justice; this guy is like an anarcho-primitivist version of Stephen King. And much like Stephen King, he’s constantly finding new ways to evoke a feeling of terror in his readers.



October 21, 2011
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