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Life Is Not Useful
Indigenous 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 attuned to “the cosmic sense of life.” He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called “human” lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.
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Ancestral Future
In response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact. Capitalism encroaches on every corner of the planet and orients us toward a future of promised progress, achievement and growth, but this future doesn’t exist – we just imagine it. This orientation to the future also blinds us to what exists around us, to the plants and animals with which we share the Earth and to the rivers that flow through our lands. Rivers are not just resources to be exploited by us or channels to carry away our ...
Ailton Krenak - Encontros
Ailton Krenak is one of the greatest political and intellectual leaders intellectual leaders who emerged during the great awakening of the the great awakening of the indigenous peoples in Brazil, which took place 1970s. His work has been fundamental in the struggle for indigenous rights struggle for indigenous rights and the creation of initiatives such as the such as the Union of Indigenous Nations and the Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest. Ailton is an accurate and original thinker about the the relationship between Amerindian cultures and Brazilian society society, creating provocative and far-reaching reflections such as those presented in the interviews and statements contained in t...
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
“Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers Indigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene. From Brazil comes Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist and leader, who demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity” — that human beings are superior to other forms of nature and are justified in exploiting it as we please. To stop environmental disaster, Krenak argues that we must reject the homogenizing effect of this perspective and embrace a new form of “dreaming” that allows us to regain our place within nature. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he shows us the way.
Futuro ancestral
Nesta nova coleção de textos, Ailton Krenak nos provoca com a radicalidade de seu pensamento insurgente, que demove o senso comum e invoca o maravilhamento. A ideia de futuro por vezes nos assombra com cenários apocalípticos. Por outras, ela se apresenta como possibilidade de redenção, como se todos os problemas do presente pudessem ser magicamente resolvidos depois. Em ambos os casos, as ilusões nos afastam do que está ao nosso redor. Nesta nova coleção de textos, produzidos entre 2020 e 2021, Ailton Krenak nos provoca com a radicalidade de seu pensamento insurgente, que demove o senso comum e invoca o maravilhamento. Diz ele: "Os rios, esses seres que sempre habitaram os mundos em diferentes formas, são quem me sugerem que, se há futuro a ser cogitado, esse futuro é ancestral, porque já estava aqui." "Ailton Krenak é um filósofo originário: desentranha do pensamento indígena uma forma que os ocidentais se habituaram a reconhecer como 'filosofia' e a confronta, à medida que também a aproxima, com os modos especulativos europeus e outras cosmovisões tradicionais." — Muniz Sodré
A vida não é útil
Em reflexões provocadas pela pandemia de covid-19, o pensador e líder indígena Ailton Krenak volta a apontar as tendências destrutivas da chamada "civilização": consumismo desenfreado, devastação ambiental e uma visão estreita e excludente do que é a humanidade. Um dos mais influentes pensadores da atualidade, Ailton Krenak vem trazendo contribuições fundamentais para lidarmos com os principais desafios que se apresentam hoje no mundo: a terrível evolução de uma pandemia, a ascensão de governos de extrema-direita e os danos causados pelo aquecimento global. Crítico mordaz à ideia de que a economia não pode parar, Krenak provoca: "Nós poderíamos colocar todos os dirigente...
Krenak
A obra conta a história de Ailton Krenak, nascido em território do povo Krenak, na região do vale do Rio Doce, tornou-se um dos maiores líderes políticos e intelectuais surgidos durante o grande despertar dos povos indígenas ocorrido no Brasil a partir do final dos anos 1970.
