The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart Taylor Astra
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart Taylor Astra These days, everyone feels insecure. The status quo isn't working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. We are…
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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart Taylor Astra
These days, everyone feels insecure. The status quo isn't working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed.
From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.Mixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. What is going on?In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises--rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism--originate from a social order built on insecurity. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can