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 masterful 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. Writing in
the tradition of Wendell Berry Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil 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 poetic and erudite
Against the Machine is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.
