Between Earth And Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community

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Between Earth and Empire focuses on the crucial position of humanity at the present moment in Earth History. We have left the Cenozoic, the 'new period of life,' and are now in the midst of the Necrocene, a period of mass extinction and reversal.The book presents a vision of hope for social and ecological regeneration through the rebirth of a liber

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"Whether in Rojava, where women are fighting for their people's survival, or in the loss and terror of New Orleans after the Katrina flood, Clark finds models of communality, care, and hope. Finely reasoned and integrative, tracing the dialectical play of institution and ethos, ideology and imaginary, this book will speak to philosophers and activists alike."
--Ariel Salleh, author of Ecofeminism as Politics

"Clark presents very sophisticated philosophical concepts in a style that is quite comprehensible to the general public. Each page sheds new light on our age of planetary turbulence and demolishes all pseudo-truths about it."
--Ronald Creagh, author of American Utopias

"John Clark's book is a measured manifesto. It is a must read for any activist or scholar concerned with the alternatives to capitalism's ongoing war on nature."
--Andrej Grubaic, coauthor of Living at the Edges of Capitalism

"John Clark's Between Earth and Empire is a guide to that which is obvious yet confoundingly obscure--namely, that models of social organization based in care and cooperation are infinitely more constructive and mutually beneficial than those based in competition and conquest."
--Alyce Santoro, conceptual/sound artist and activist

"This book is a compass, polarized in the superlative subtropiques of the Gulf Coast, orienting cardinal points in the landscapes of the Zapatistas, the Black Panther Party, the Kurdish freedom movement, and West Papua. The diamantine dialectics of freedom breathing through the pages of this book will be a decisive factor in the final battles between earth and empire, between evolution and extinction. Which side are you on"
--Quincy Saul, cofounder of Ecosocialist Horizons, and editor of Maroon Comix

Author Bio

John P. Clark is a philosopher, activist, and educator. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, and he is the author or editor of many books, including The Anarchist Moment; Anarchy, Geography, Modernity; and The Impossible Community. Peter Marshall is a historian, philosopher, travel writer, and poet. He has written 16 books, including Demanding the Impossible, William Godwin, and The Philosopher's Stone.