Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771864305)

Vendor: Mark Abley
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Format: Paperback
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Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm

$16.95

Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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We are exhausted. We are overwhelmed. Worse, we are numb. No matter what screen you're getting your news and information from, the barrage is constant, horrific and always urgent: Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo, climate change, ecological devastation, economic collapse...and of course Donald Trump and all he represents. Authoritarian leaders and genocidal regimes have always found numbness a desirable goal, as it narrows the possibilities for revolt. Shocked and awed into submission, we are at the mercy of tyrants, like captive animals in a zoo. What we see in zoo animals today may be a ghostly image of ourselves. In this lucid, trenchant book, Mark Abley explores the idea of numbness in today's political context.

Author: Mark Abley
ISBN-10: 1771864303
ISBN-13: 9781771864305
Publisher: Baraka Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2026
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
By Mark Abley
By Mark Abley
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Mark Abley is a nonfiction writer, journalist, editor and poet. His most recent books are Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail and an updated edition of the ground-breaking Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott. One of his earlier books, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montré al; it has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese and Latvian. A long-time Montrealer, Abley now lives in Ontario

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