{"product_id":"life-is-not-useful-by-ailton-krenak-9781509554058","title":"Life Is Not Useful","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our entire existence, leaving us only very partially alive, and, in fact, almost dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo awaken from the coma of modernity is, for Krenak, to awaken to the possibility of becoming attuned to “the cosmic sense of life.” He points out that the COVID-19 pandemic affects all so-called “human” lives and that the time is ripe for us all to reflect on and undo the exclusivity and distinction that have characterized the concept of humanity throughout Western modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife Is Not Useful\u003c\/em\u003e challenges readers to reconsider these ingrained notions and invites us to envision a more interconnected and meaningful existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596764397804,"sku":"9781509554058","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3e5b590bf727818279efe17d784283db.jpg?v=1777956270","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/life-is-not-useful-by-ailton-krenak-9781509554058","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}