* New York Times bestseller* How a force that's hard to name but which we all feel is
reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine "furiously gifted" ( The
Washington Post ) novelist poet and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original-and
terrifying-account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into
the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine in
the name of progress has choked Western civilization is destroying the Earth itself and is
reshaping us in its image. 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. It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Here
Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power
connection to land nature and heritage and a deep attention to matters of the spirit.
Prophetic and poetic Against the Machine is a spiritual manual for dissidents in the
technological age.
