My latest work:
AS THE WORLD BURNS: 50 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO STAY IN DENIAL
A graphic novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan
Two of America’s most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn’t by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.
"We think our simple solutions to the Earth's problems are helping, but As The World Burns shows that they're just distracting us from the terrifying truth. Jensen and McMillan unflinchingly confront these pressing issues, and their book is really funny, too....To a wild future!" --Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy
"Visionary and honest, As the World Burns offers a compelling yet brutal assessment of the state of the planet--and the state of mind of its most destructive tenants. It is a great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order." -- Ted Rall, Silk Road to Ruin
"We are drowning in phony green this and sustainable that nonsense. Liberals, avoid Jensen and McMillan! It may simply destroy your illusions and avoidance! Delicious and severely needed - not for those of delicate, ostrich-like constitutions." -- John Zerzan, Against Civilization, Running on Emptiness
ENDGAME
Volume One: The Problem of Civilization
Volume Two: Resistance
"Having long laid waste our own sanity, and having long forgotten what it feels like to be free, most of us too have no idea what it’s like to live in the real world. Seeing four salmon spawn causes me to burst into tears. I have never seen a river full of fish. I have never seen a sky darkened for days by a single flock of birds.
(I have, however, seen skies perpetually darkened by smog.)As with freedom, so too the extraordinary beauty and fecundity of the world itself: It’s hard to love something you’ve never known. It’s hard to convince yourself to fight for something you may not believe has ever existed."
Endgame is the long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen’s immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
Author, teacher, activist, small farmer, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, Derrick Jensen regularly stirs auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. jensen holds a degree in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, a degree in mineral engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines, and has taught at Eastern Washington University and Pelican Bay State Prison. For more information visit www.derrickjensen.org and www.sevenstories.com.
Derrick Jensen's MySpace site is operated by Seven Stories Press, publisher of Endgame.
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Talk to Derrick by telephone or webcam
So many people have written to Derrick to ask if he can come to talk to their group in Valdosta, Georgia or Vancouver, British Columbia, or many other places across the United States, Canada, and the rest of the world. Many of these groups can't afford to pay his fees and expenses to fly all the way there and back, and he normally can't afford the time and expense to do it for free (he, too, has to pay rent).
So he's trying something new, which is that he's now available at a greatly reduced rate to talk by telephone or webcam with your book club, activist group, or other organization. It's a great way to meet like-minded people in your area, to ask questions, to explore, without the time (for him) and expense (for you) of flying him in for a lecture. He's also available for similar discussions at public venues like local/anarchist cafes, locally-owned, progressive restaurants or coffee houses, or other community spaces.
The fee for this is $100/hour, no matter the group size. If you're interested, send Derrick a note at [email protected] and the two of you can discuss details like when you'd like for this to happen and how it would work.