Briarpatch Magazine » hypocricy http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en “It’s tremendous fun to fight back”: An interview with Derrick Jensen http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:20 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/?p=674 Derrick Jensen

By Dave Oswald Mitchell Briarpatch Magazine August 2008

"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? . . . what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

Franz Kafka

Derrick Jensen has been called the philosopher poet of the ecological movement. His books include The Culture of Make Believe, the two-volume Endgame, and most recently How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization. Common to all his work is a fierce commitment to expose the roots of the violence and destruction that underpin the comforts and privileges of civilization. ]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/07/21/its-tremendous-fun-to-fight-back-an-interview-with-derrick-jensen/feed/