DERRICK JENSEN on ‘Civilization as Pathology: Collapse, Resilience and Resistance’
OPIRG-Carleton Presents:
DERRICK JENSEN on ‘Civilization as Pathology: Collapse, Resilience and Resistance’
January 30th, 2008 @ 7:00pm
Carleton University – 301 Azrieli Theatre
Map: http://www2.carleton.ca/campus/
Tickets: $5 – $20 (sliding scale, with no one denied a ticket for
financial reasons)
Tickets Available at:
OPIRG-Carleton (326 Unicentre, Carleton University) and Exile Infoshop
(256 Bank St., Suite 203)
TICKETS ON SALE *NOW*
Activist, small farmer, teacher, and philosopher Derrick Jensen seamlessly
weaves together the threads that connect different forms of oppression and
domination, from racial and class domination, to technology and
surveillance, to domestic violence and abuse, to ecological devastation
and global climate change, to form a cohesive narrative about the inherent
destructiveness of the cultural forms we know as “civilization.” Therein,
Jensen sees the roots of the current global ecological crisis, and the
possibilities for determined and effective resistance to it.
In Jensen’s book Endgame he asks: “Do you believe that this culture will
undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of
living?” Nearly everyone he talks to says no. His next question is: “How
would this understanding — that this culture will not voluntarily stop
destroying the natural world, eliminating indigenous cultures, exploiting
the poor, and killing those who resist — shift our strategy and tactics?
The answer? Nobody knows, because we never talk about it: we’re too busy
pretending the culture will undergo a magical transformation.” Endgame, he
says, is “about that shift in strategy, and in tactics. And this talk will
also focus on that, and the possibilities for the birth and rebirth of
different ways of perceiving and being in the world.