New_Society_Fall-2016_Catalogue

NEW TITLES
Dark Age America
Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
John Michael Greer
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future
has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today’s industrial civilization
unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion. Dark Age
America seeks to map out in advance the history of collapse, giving us an idea of what
the next 500 years or so might look like as globalization ends and North American
civilization enters the stages of decline and fall.
Knowing where we’re headed collectively is a crucial step in responding constructively
and doing what we can now to help our descendants make the most of the world we’re
leaving them.
John Michael Greer is one of the most influential authors exploring the future
of industrial society. He has published more than thirty books including The Long
Descent (p. 25) and After Progress (p. 20). He lives in Cumberland, MD with his wife Sara.
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Resilience / 6 x 9” / 256 Pages / US/Can $18.95 / PB ISBN 978-0-86571-833-3 / Available September
Shrinking the Technosphere
Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit our Autonomy,
Self-sufficiency and Freedom
Dmitry Orlov
Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of
most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life with new,
technologically advanced, more efficient methods: if the new ways of doing things
are so much better, then we must all be leading relaxed, stress-free, enjoyable lives
with plenty of free time to devote to art and leisure activities. But a more careful
look at these changes shows us that many of these advances are not weighing
favourably in a harm/benefit comparison.
Shrinking the Technosphere guides readers through the process of bringing technology
down to a manageable number of carefully chosen and controllable elements. This
is critical reading for all who seek to get back to a point where technologies assist us
rather than control us.
Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees
in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics,
Internet commerce, network security, and advertising. He is the author of several previous books, including
Reinventing Collapse and The Five Stages of Collapse (p. 20).
Cultural critique / 6 x 9”/ 256 pages / US/Can $19.95 / PB ISBN 978-0-86571-838-8 / Available November
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