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Lifehouse
- Author
- Adam Greenfield
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 9 July 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?
Using examples from the Black Panthers' "survival programs," the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns to the large-scale, self-organized polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, Greenfield argues for rethinking local power as a bulwark against despair—a way to discover and develop the individual and collective capacities that have gone underutilized during all the long years of late capitalism, and a means for thriving in the face of impending catastrophe.
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 3.0
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5.0 3.0
Fascinating and thought-provoking content.
It's probably just me but I found the narrator's tone tended somewhat monotonous.Claire Duc 2025-06-03
Details
- Author
- Adam Greenfield
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Duration
- 8 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 July 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855525021
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Political activism, Social theory
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 3.0(1 review)
Synopsis
How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisisWe are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?Using examples from the Black Panthers' "survival programs," the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns to the large-scale, self-organized polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, Greenfield argues for rethinking local power as a bulwark against despair—a way to discover and develop the individual and collective capacities that have gone underutilized during all the long years of late capitalism, and a means for thriving in the face of impending catastrophe.
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