Critics of Progress

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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,962 ratings
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Technological Slavery: The collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"
Technological Slavery: The collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber" 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Twilight of the Machines
Twilight of the Machines 3.76 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Technological Society
The Technological Society 4.31 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings
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Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond 3.59 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Future Primitive Revisited
Future Primitive Revisited 3.83 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections 3.85 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,113 ratings
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Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,559 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 4.11 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology
Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes 4.27 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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Lines & Lenses
Lines & Lenses 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
by: John Gray
3.91 avg rating — 189 ratings
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McDonaldization Society
McDonaldization Society
by: Ian Tinny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics 4.37 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism 4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress
Eclipse of Man: Human Extinction and the Meaning of Progress 3.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
by: John Gray
3.90 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
by: Lin Xun
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 4.24 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Liberalism: A Counter-History 4.39 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics
A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
by: John Gray
3.93 avg rating — 4,888 ratings
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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World 3.78 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World 4.52 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth
Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth 3.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance 4.14 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Anthropology and Modern Life
Anthropology and Modern Life 3.97 avg rating — 234 ratings
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A Short History of Progress
A Short History of Progress 4.10 avg rating — 5,391 ratings
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Can Life Prevail?
Can Life Prevail? 3.77 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World
Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World 4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World 4.23 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues 4.10 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru
Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
by: Cal Flyn
4.20 avg rating — 5,636 ratings
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The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North
The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature 4.17 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
by: Alva Noë
3.68 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine
The Future of Nature: Writing on Human Ecology from Orion Magazine 4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings
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War and Peace in the Global Village
War and Peace in the Global Village 3.93 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce 4.27 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Portable James Joyce
The Portable James Joyce 4.12 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America 3.97 avg rating — 122 ratings
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This Lightning, This Madness: Understanding Alan Moore's Miracleman, Book One
This Lightning, This Madness: Understanding Alan Moore's Miracleman, Book One 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings