| International Standard Book Number |
9780374621384
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374621381
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
236.9
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| Personal Name |
Klein, Naomi, 1970- author.
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| Title Statement |
End times fascism : and the fight for the living world / Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
x, 369 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Gated cities at the end of the world -- Messianic dreams. The spiral of history : From colonial genocide to antifascist resistance -- Rapture ready : Praying for a bunker in the sky -- Real crises and false prophets : How symptoms become "signs" -- Escape to the cloud. Big tech summons its digital god--or demon : Betting it all on a synthetic future -- Musk in Memphis : From "I AM A MAN" to I am alive -- Prepper nation. The bunkered state : Fortressing the border as the world burns -- For-profit escapism : Cracks appear in the Armageddon-industrial complex -- Let's stay. Hereness : A neighborly uprising -- The leavers vs. the stayers : Zohran Mamdani and the antithesis of fascism -- A new disarmament movement : The fierce urgency of ending impunity.
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| Summary, Etc. |
As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous development, and what resources can we draw on to resist it? In their scathing assessment of the contemporary scene, the celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explore how the religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of messianic prophecy, the rampages of a resource-and job-consuming artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration and cultural replacement. Rather than avoiding this conflagration, they welcome it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other side. "End times fascism" is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show in End Times Fascism via original reporting and analysis, the many internal conflicts and contradictions and the nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for ostensible allies, leave these survivalists vulnerable to a new kind of "pro-life" politics rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
End of the world.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fascism.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Evangelicalism.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Taylor, Astra, author.
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