Life Is Not Useful Krenak Hardback Polity Press 9781509554041

Life Is Not Useful\nby Ailton Krenak\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ailton Krenak\nTitle: Life Is Not Useful\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology: family and relationships\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9781509554041\nISBN-10: 1509554041\nRRP: \u00A340.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead. To awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming att.