People, Place, Prayer, Past

Key points

• Bruce Menzies revisits Paul Kingsnorth’s book Against the Machine, exploring themes of modernity, environmental activism, and the loss of cultural roots. Kingsnorth, an award-winning novelist and environmental activist, relocated from London to Ireland and writes about the tension between imagination and the 'metastasising machine' of modern life.
• Menzies highlights Kingsnorth’s critique of progress and his call to resist and subvert the machine.
• The book is available at New Edition in Fremantle.