Product Description
Machine-readable identity cards are issued to prisoners, workers,
and schoolchildren around the world. Tiny ID chips track every
car, shirt, and razor blade purchased from every corporate
manufacturer in America. Chips track--and control--humans and
other animals. Exoskeleton armor makes soldiers invincible;
mind-altering drugs make them incapable of remorse. Scientists
design swarms of nanoparticles as weapons to target specific
ethnic groups. Governments and multinational corporations gather
gigabytes of information on every citizen’s race, family
life, credit record, telephone conversations, employment history,
buying preferences, favorite TV shows.
Welcome to Western civilization, 2004.
In their new collaboration for the "Politics of the Living" series, Derrick Jensen and George Draffan reveal the modern culture of the machine, where corporate might makes technology right, government money feeds the greed for mad science, and absolute surveillance leads to absolute control--and corruption. Through meticulous research and fiercely personal narrative, Jensen and Draffan move beyond journalism and exposé to question our civilization’s very mode of existence. Welcome to the Machine defies our willingness to submit to the institutions and technologies built to rob us of all that makes us human--our connection to the land, our kinship with one another, our place in the living world.
Welcome to the Machine is part of the "Politics of the
Living" series, a collection of hard-hitting works by major
writers exposing the global governmental and corporate assault on
life.
About the Author
Derrick Jensen is the author of Walking on Water, The Culture of
Make Believe, A Language Older than Words, and Listening to the
Land. He is the coauthor of Strangely Like War and Railroads and
Clearcuts. The Culture of Make Believe was one of two finalists
for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.
George Draffan is a forest activist, public interest investigator, and corporate muckraker. He is the author of The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution and the coauthor of Strangely Like War and Railroads and Clearcuts. His work can be found at the Public Information Network Web site.
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