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Books

The Ahuman Manifesto by Patricia MacCormack

Stephen Alexander is against a work against humanity.

The full title of MacCormack’s book is The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. It may be about the end of the era of human beings, but according to the Preface, it is intended to be an optimistic work of joy and radical compassion, with ‘radical compassion’ being interpreted as a form of grace to be extended to all life on Earth. Its position is a counternihilism that affirms (amongst other things) queer feminism, atheist occultism, deep ecology, and human extinction. In other words, it’s ethics, Jim, but not as we know it.

MacCormack’s central argument is simple: “It is time for humans to stop being human.

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