Ostertag - Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century (Kairos)

With deep intelligence and an acute and off-center sensibility, Bob Ostertag gives us a riveting and highly personalized view of globalization, from the soaring skyscapes of Shanghai to the darkened alleys of Yogyakarta.

Frances Fox Piven, coauthor of Regulating the Poorand Poor Peoples Movements

If you want an insightful, witty panorama of this brave new world we are making, follow Ostertag around it for a yearor read this book.

Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!and Common Preservation

This is global reporting at its besta pointillistic portrait of the troubles of our time rendered in riotous detail. It reads like a riff, not a sermon.

Richard Manning, author of If It Sounds Good, It Is Good

Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampattakes us through the grim dystopic world that we live in, but somehow we also witness the resilience of the human spirit, including its queer dimension. A joyful read.

Dd Oetomo, Indonesian gay activist and scholar

A horrifying, exhilarating, hilarious and jaw-dropping glimpse of our present and futureas Ostertag details how even the most remote desert islands on our planet are becoming rapidly infected and influenced by the consumerism, technology, and plastic garbage that the rest of us have long ago surrendered to.

George Brant, author of Grounded, ElephantsGraveyard, and other plays

In ancient Greek philosophy, kairossignifies the right time or the moment of transition. We believe that we live in such a transitional period. The most important task of social science in time of transformation is to transform itself into a force of liberation. Kairos, an editorial imprint of the Anthropology and Social Change department housed in the California Institute of Integral Studies, publishes groundbreaking works in critical social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, geography, theory of education, political ecology, political theory, and history.

Series editor: Andrej Grubai

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Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century

Bob Ostertag

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