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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor with Mayor Katie Wilson
About the event
Has it ever felt like the planet is burning, shared reality is melting, and a new iteration of the extreme is on the march? In their new book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor help readers not only understand this development, but how to resist it.
Offering a scathing assessment of the contemporary scene, Klein and Taylor explore how religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists make up an apocalyptic alliance that share more than one might think: they are united in the belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of messianic prophecy, the rampages of artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration and cultural replacement. Klein and Taylor contend that rather than avoiding this conflagration, this group welcomes it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other side.
“End Times Fascism” is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fallout — whether by retreating to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many internal conflicts, contradictions, and nihilistic inability to envision a shared future leave them vulnerable to a new kind of politics — rooted in reverence for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must protect.
