Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine has generated both admiration and frustration, often in equal measure. Some read it as a manifesto against modern technology; others as a hopeless lament for a world already lost. But the book is best understood neither as a how-to guide nor as a call to retreat simpliciter, but as a philosophy of history.
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