AGAINST THE MACHINE

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Against the Machine is the vivid and thought infecting documentary based on the acclaimed book by Paul Kingsnorth. An odyssey about the terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix that envelopes all of us.

From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.  The film reveals the effort it takes to remain truly human in the age of the Machine.

What People Say about AGAINST THE MACHINE

“No one can read this refreshingly subversive book and emerge with their world-view intact.” John Gray, New Statesman

“Almost the highest compliment that I can pay this book is that I approached it with wariness and put it down wishing I had written it … Yet higher still is my hope for the people I care most about—family, friends, and even intellectual adversaries and ideologists fumbling about in the dark, trying to find their way—that they too will read this beautiful, extraordinary book and see the light.” First Things

“Truly Allen Ginsberg updated for the internet age - and rightly so, for Ginsberg was a howling prophet.” Times Literary Supplement

“One of the most insightful works on culture, technology, and the environment published in some time ... Against the Machine is more than a warning about the dangers of technology. The book is a much-needed reminder that it is still possible for humans, at least as individuals, to say, ‘Enough.’” The Atlantic

“Paul Kingsnorth … is in many ways the anti-Thiel. He’s a mix between Frodo Baggins and Ted Kaczynski and politically unclassifiable … Against the Machine is forceful and gracefully argued.” The Spectator

“A book whose tone is ultimately and justifiably hopeful. We may need to rage against the Machine now and then, but we’d better be able to do more than that. Thanks to Paul Kingsnorth for reminding us that it’s past time to stake out our ground against the humanity-destroying technologies and desires that are destroying us and the next generation.” Front Porch Republic

“Kingsnorth is a gifted stylist and a syncretic thinker … his insights are sharp and layered. He is an astute critic of the fashionable nonsense that passes for contemporary politics.” City Journal

“Against the Machine is a trenchant and terrifying account of what modern people have sacrificed in exchange for technology’s promise of power and autonomy.” Christianity Today

“This is the most powerful and important book I have read in years. It is simply brilliant. The writing is searingly vivid, and it is a compulsive read.  Kingsnorth is unflinching in his keen-eyed gaze, and the message is chilling: but he is also inspiring in his determination that we must survive, and he points the way to what ultimately matters.  This book should be required reading not only for politicians, technocrats, teachers and all who help shape our world, but for every still-living soul in this terrifying age of the Machine.” Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master And His Emissary and The Matter With Things

“Kingsnorth has done something extraordinary: he has captured the spiritual crisis of our time in language so compelling I could not put the book down. The vision he paints is a bleak one: a post-human, machinic future. But as long as our world still has space for voices this vivid, I dare hope we have not yet succumbed to the Machine.” Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress

“Against the Machine is an eloquent and erudite critique of the perils of modern technology. But it’s much more than that. It’s a searching, moving meditation on the fate of humanity in a world where money and mechanism have displaced meaning.” Nicholas Carr, author of Superbloom and The Shallows

“Something in our common life has long seemed bewildering, even ominous, and Paul Kingsnorth makes it finally clear what we're up against. The gears clanking around us are not working at random, but with increasingly inhuman intent. Now I see what I must do. Now I understand.” Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of The Illumined Heart and Sign of the Cross

“Thank God for Paul Kingsnorth! Serious, furious, and always consistent, this is a Christian thinker who does not sugar-coat his convictions.” Justin Smith-Riui, author of The Internet Is Not What You Think