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Life versus the Machine | Orion Mar 13. 2019
The Cross and the Machine | First Things Jun 2021
The Last Dregs of Christendom: An Interview with Paul Kingsnorth Aug 30, 2021
The Anti-Christ now rules us all: The age of progress has turned everything into machines and money | Unherd May 28, 2022
Paul Kingsnorth on environmentalism and concerns about technological authoritarianism | The Sacred — Transcript Sep 21, 2022
A Wild Christianity | First Things March 2023
Is there anything left to conserve? | Unherd May 22, 2023
Paul Kingsnorth portrait of a recovering environmentalist | VPRO Documentary Apr 26, 2019
A flush toilet is a good metaphor for the civilization we're living in. You crap into a pipe. You flush it away, and you never see it. You never have to deal with your own shit, and then you end up deep in it.
— Paul Kingsnorth
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Earth Talk: Five years on a mountain - Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine Jul 4, 2014
Earth Talk: Five years on a mountain 2015
Paul Kingsnorth, "Confessions Of Recovering Environmentalist", "Beast" Sep 10, 2017
Paul Kingsnorth and Martin Shaw Nov 15, 2020
A Conversation With Paul Kingsnorth Jul 2. 2021
Paul Kingsnorth: Beyond the Protest Jul 13, 2021
Theology of the Machine? Sep 10, 2021
Paul Kingsnorth- creativity, the education system and its dangers and capitalism Oct 12, 2021
Paul Kingsnorth: Why I changed sides in the vaccine wars Nov 30, 2021
Science doesn't have all the answers 2021
Paul Kingsnorth and Martin Shaw 2021
Rewild Your Words teaser 2021
Paul Kingsnorth: The Machine and the Christian Way Apr 11, 2022
Civilization and Control | with Paul Kingsnorth with Jonathan Pageau Apr 12, 2022
A Great Reset without the Conspiracy 2022
From Atheism to Buddhism to Paganism to Orthodoxy 2022
Paul Kingsnorth & Tom Holland: Myths, Saints, & History, the Bible & Life After Progress 2022
The War on Reality, Mary Harrington & Paul Kingsnorth 2022
Paul Kingsnorth on the shared roots of climate crisis, transhumanism, & immortality 2022
Theology of the Machine? 2022
Christianity, Covid & Transformation 2022
Nature, Loss and the Sacred Centre 2022
Beyond the Protest 2022
Pagan to Christian 2022
Paul Kingsnorth - Entering Into Orthodoxy - First Things Foundation Jun 7, 2022
Conversion, Culture, and the Cross Jun 2022
Entering Into Orthodoxy Jul 2022
The Machine and the Christian Way 2022
The Coming Transhuman Future - Live Talk with Author Paul Kingsnorth Sep 29, 2022
The Coming Transhuman Future Oct 2022
God, Identity, Idolatry, Taboos, Religion, Masculinity Oct 2022
The New Christians, Rewilding Christianity Nov 2022
Conference 2022: Paul Kingsnorth Nov 2022
Paul Kingsnorth on 'The Machine' and More! Feb 18, 2023
‘Trying to be creators' is taking us to a ‘sinister place’ Apr 9, 2023
The End of Anthropology? Apr 2023
Tom Holland Quizes Paul Kingsnorth on How He Slips the Moorings of this Quotidian World Apr 2023
Paul Kingsnorth: What is there left to conserve? May 21, 2023
Paul Kingsnorth: How to resist the machine Jun 11, 2023
The Abbey of Misrule
The Abbey of Misrule — Paul Kingsnorth on Substack
The Dream of the Rood - Who sits on the empty throne? May 12, 2021
Kill All The Heroes: The Culture of Inversion, part one Feb 23, 2022
Negative, immature, childish reactionary, tear everything down, no positive alternative
"We are going to have to learn to be adults again; to get our feet back on the ground, to rebuild families and communities, to learn again the meaning of worship and commitment, of limits and longing. We are, in short, going to have to grow up. This is long, hard work: intergenerational work. It is myth work. We don’t really want to begin, and we don’t really know how to. Does any child want to grow up? But there is nothing else for it; no other path is going to get us home."
Saturn's Children: The Culture of Inversion, part two Mar 15. 2022
Down The River: The Culture of Inversion, part three Apr 4, 2022
What Progress Wants May 24, 2022
The Basilisk Revisited Aug 15, 2022
The Nation and the Grid Sep 15, 2022
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Divining The Machine
Blanched Sun, Blinded Man (part one) May 26, 2021
A Monster that Grows in Deserts (part two) Jun 9, 2021
A Thousand Mozarts (part three) Jul 3, 2021
The Green Grace(part four) Jul 21, 2021
What we might call an ‘indigenous’ worldview is simply the ability to be at home in a living world - to be, as Simone Weil would have it, rooted - and to treat its denizens as fellow creatures rather than as robots to be dissected or as resources to be utilised. It’s my belief that this understanding is the default state of human beings at all times and in all cultures, and that the Machine is an external manifestation of modern humanity’s internal rebellion against it. That rebellion - the rebellion against nature, against life, against God - has not only made us homeless. It has also wrecked and ravaged the living Earth to the point of disaster, in pursuit of a universal human empire of calculation and control. ...
In clearing the ground for the triumph of Rational Man; in naming, numbering, dissecting and razing a living world as if it were an object just waiting to be transformed into dollar signs, we have cut away the ground from under our own feet.
Do What Thou Wilt (part five) Aug 5, 2021
The Great Wen (part six) Sep 1, 2021
Want is the Acid (part seven) Sep 15, 2021
Come the Black Ships (part eight) Oct 1, 2021
You Are Harvest (part nine) Oct 16, 2021
Intermission: The Scriptorium - by Paul Kingsnorth
Keep The Home Fires Burning - by Paul Kingsnorth
In This Free World The future's in the air, I can feel it everywhere
Kill All The Heroes The Culture of Inversion, part one
Saturn's Children The Culture of Inversion, part two
Down The River
The Culture of Inversion, part three
Following Christ in the Machine Age
Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth
In a world that’s coming apart, Christianity can’t afford to be a comfortable religion of empire [like it has been]. It can’t afford to be a comfortable faith that upholds the systems that are crumbling down. It has to go back to the margins again, which is where it came from. ...
What would happen if we did our liturgies outside in the woods... [W]hat would happen if you took all the icons and the altar into the woods and did it there, instead of into a building, sometimes? That would have a very different feel to it. I don’t know, it wouldn’t be better or worse, but it would be a part of the faith that isn’t there at the moment. ...
How serious are you about living well, in the way that you think you ought to live as a Christian, or just as a human in the world? And how far can you go, doing that? And it might not be as far as you’d like to go. But you could do something about it. If you feel that the Machine is as tragic as I do, then you have to resist it in some way. And that’s not necessarily a kind of head-on fight, but it is about living in a way that aligns you with God and aligns you with nature and with other humans, rather than aligning you with the Machine. ...
[Y]ou’re going to have to deal with being marginalized and exiled to some degree. But again, Christians ought to be good at that, you know? We’ve got a long history of being marginal and exiled. We’ve just forgotten it. We’re going to have to go back to that place where we live on the edges as the weirdoes in society and aren’t prepared to put up with what Rome is trying to do to us. ...
Limits is what it’s all going to come down to. And I like the idea of being a creative minority. I think it’s going to be really healthy for Christians not to be at the heart of society. ...This religion doesn’t exist to prop up empire, it doesn’t exist to prop up the Machine. It’s an antidote to it, actually. It’s an alternative to it. ...I think it will do us good as Christians to be pushed out to the margins and probably mocked and despised a bit like we were centuries ago rather than being the guys in the palaces with the emperors. It’s not a bad thing, because that’s where it comes from. That’s where Christ was. There’s something there about walking with bare feet out into the world with nowhere to lay your head.
And that’s how God chose to manifest on earth — not as an emperor, not as a king, not as a general, not as a businessman, but as an itinerant rabbi. ...It’s not a machine religion, Christianity, or it shouldn’t be, I think. ...
Again, maybe people are afraid of the past in the way that they’re afraid of God and afraid of nature, because it also sort of blows up the progressive mythos. If we can find things in the past that were good that have been lost, we can’t have that, because the story we have to tell ourselves is that things are always getting better and it used to be awful. And if that turns out not to be true, at least in every area, then the story of progress goes out of the window. ...
There’s a kind of terror at the heart of the whole mythology of modernity that actually it might not be true, and you can see that, in the more populist rebellions and ecological collapses you get, the more the ruling elite is getting obviously nervous about the possibility that this might not be working. And so it seems to me we’re getting so much propaganda in literature and filmmaking now because it’s like they want to just shove down our throats the story that we ought to be hearing, rather than having the confidence to actually tell stories. I mean, if you compare Hollywood today to Hollywood in the Seventies, when they used to make really great films, today absolutely everything they make is either a remake of a superhero franchise again, or it’s something that gives us a lot of progressive pieties, and, as you say, just set in whatever era, telling us all exactly the same things about race and gender that we all ought to be learning. There’s a kind of terror at the heart of the whole mythology of modernity that actually it might not be true, and you can see that, in the more populist rebellions and ecological collapses you get, the more the ruling elite is getting obviously nervous about the possibility that this might not be working. And so it seems to me we’re getting so much propaganda in literature and filmmaking now because it’s like they want to just shove down our throats the story that we ought to be hearing, rather than having the confidence to actually tell stories. I mean, if you compare Hollywood today to Hollywood in the Seventies, when they used to make really great films, today absolutely everything they make is either a remake of a superhero franchise again, or it’s something that gives us a lot of progressive pieties, and, as you say, just set in whatever era, telling us all exactly the same things about race and gender that we all ought to be learning. And like they’re just saying, This is how you need to think — we don’t even know how to tell stories anymore, we’re just going to tell you the opinions you should have through the mouths of these characters. ...
You have to experience the kind of life that Wendell Berry’s writing about.... And when you experience them, then you know what you’ve lost, which is painful, so it’s easy to avoid it sometimes than to deal with it, I suppose, because it’s hard to know how to get it back again.