One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement

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Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9237 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000227 Openlibrary_edition In 2009, Paul launched, with Dougald Hine, the Dark Mountain Project – a call for a literary movement to respond to the ongoing collapse of the world’s ecological and economic certainties. What began as a self-published pamphlet has become a global network of writers, artists and thinkers. Paul is now the Project’s director and one of its editors.

But Buccmaster unravels, plagued by increasingly feverish visions; his ragtag rebels amount to little. At one point they are shown a new Norman castle under construction — a technological terror so dreadful that Buccmaster lets out a rare admission of hopelessness: “this is a thing from an other world from a blaec place from hel itself. Naht has there efer been in angland lic this naht efer in the world and stand there i feels we is lost all lost now for efer.” [4] The doubt passes though, and Buccmaster digs his heels into expelling the Normans. However, his men slowly lose hope, and the novel climaxes with an altercation between them and Buccmaster, just as Norman soldiers burst through the trees. Buccmaster flees, ranting and raving into the woods, forever a fugitive of the past. After travelling through Mexico, West Papua, Genoa in Italy, and Brazil, Kingsnorth wrote his first book in 2003, One No, Many Yeses. The book explored how globalisation played a role in destroying historic cultures around the world. [1] The book was not successful on initial printing, in part because it came in the first week of the Iraq war. [2] It was published in 6 languages in 13 countries. [ citation needed] Written in what the author describes as ‘a shadow tongue’ – a version of Old English – The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. Paul Kingsnorth explains: An interesting relatively un-spun read that takes the reader behind the smokescreen & media portrayal of the coalescent global political resistance dissident movement.

a b c d Wagner, Erica (30 June 2016). "The constant gardener". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 April 2020. Aris Roussinos (August 2019). "Sailing into a low-tech future". unHerd . Retrieved 13 September 2020.

Paul Kingsnorth's "..., Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement": 2 wds. Crossword Clue Katrin Bennhold; Alexandra Alter (23 July 2014). "In First, Americans Are Nominated for Booker Prize". The New York Times. The author uses his own first-hand experiences and witnessing movements on the inside - in such seminal areas as Chiapas and the Zapatistas, the infamous G8 protests in Genoa which ended in the death of Carlo Giuliani, Soweto township... - to actively put across his viewpoint there might be many different problems and acts of injustice, one answer (a resistant NO!) and many yeses (multiple different solutions). From the east I came, to this high place, to be broken, to be torn apart, beaten, cut into pieces. I came here to measure myself against the great emptiness… To be open, to be in fear, to be aching with nothingness, to be lonely as the cold subsoil in winter, lonely as the last whale in the ocean, singing in bewilderment and no other to answer for all of time. This darkness. This is the only life. [17] Paul Kingsnorth is the author of two non-fiction books, One No, Many Yeses (2003) and the highly acclaimed Real England (2008), as well as a collection of poetry, Kidland (2011). A former journalist and deputy editor of The Ecologist magazine, he has won several awards for his poetry and essays. In 2009, he co-founded the Dark Mountain Project, an international network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for troubled times. Much of his writing can be found online at www.paulkingsnorth.net. The Wake is his first novel.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-02-04 21:11:02 Boxid IA40055724 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Edward looks for whatever man is beneath the facile crust of modernity. His search is catalysed when he encounters a small country church and a huge, mysterious beast seen out of the corner of his eye. The juxtaposition of beast and church suggest that whatever Edward seeks, the dangerous mystery at the heart of things, unites the natural and the divine. But, like Buccmaster, Edward unravels. After a blow to the head, and a long time searching the moors, he turns feral. Kingsnorth again plays with language, as punctuation progressively drops out of Edward’s narration and his language regresses into something reminiscent of The Wake’s shadow-tongue. Other things undercut Buccmaster’s vision of Englishness. As a boy, his grandfather recounts to him how their ancestors arrived in the land: “anglsic folc cum here across the sea many years ago. wilde was this land wilde with ingengas [foreigners] with wealsc [Welsh] folc with aelfs and the wulf. cum we did in our scips our great carfan scips with the wyrms heafod [dragon’s head] and we macd good this land what had been weac and unkempt and was thus ours by right.” [8] The reader can easily draw the comparisons between the Anglo-Saxon settlement and the Norman invasion. Buccmaster’s grandfather also regails him with tales of the great English kings Æthelred, Alfred, and Athelstan — all Christians. [9] Buccmaster’s disdain for the supposedly corrosive, homogenising force of a foreign religion apparently becomes selective when it produces great rulers. Writer Paul Kingsnorth was baptized in the Romanian Orthodox Church". Orthodox Times . Retrieved 15 February 2021. In 1065, Buccmaster of Holland has it all. He is a free socman of England, [3] owner of three oxgangs — though he rues how England has forgotten the earthy, virile Old Gods of the Anglo-Saxons. But in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Buccmaster loses everything. Desolate, he flees into the woodland, soon gathering a band of waifs and strays who imagine themselves as ‘grene men’ — spirits of the forest who may be able to rescue England by striking against the invaders.

a b c d e Daniel Smith (20 April 2014). "It's the End of the World as We Know It and He Feels Fine". The New York Times. He has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Granta, The Ecologist, New Internationalist, The Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV, and Resonance FM. I saw it all finally crushed all the people flattened the glory of the end of it all. Skyscrapers falling oceans overcoming the defences the silence descending [11]Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer and thinker. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. He lives in the west of Ireland. Paul Kingsnorth (born 1972) is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. There's also some rather glaring omissions on the topics covered. For example, the book is about a global network of active resistance to state oppression and persecution yet there is no mention whatsoever of the burgeoning international BDS (Boycott, Diversity, Sanctions) movement which promotes boycotting Israel for it's barbaric treatment of Palestinians; a movement which is vividly active in Europe, South Africa and beyond yet isn't deemed worthy of mention in Kingsnorth's book. Whether it's omission is down to the big villain of the piece being a contentious state and not 'The global capitalist machine' or down to the author's own undisclosed personal political inclinations is not clear. He left the Ecologist in 2001 to write his first book One No, Many Yeses, a political travelogue which explored the growing anti-capitalist movement around the world. The book was published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster, in six languages across 13 countries. From the 2014 Man BookerPrizelonglisted author comes an impassioned journey to the heart of the Global Resistance Movement.

Lazily compliant, I am triple jabbed but have no strong opinions on this topic, nor does Paul Kingsnorth strike me as particularly extreme. Akin to tennis great Novak Djokovic he seems to want to uphold his personal bodily autonomy without being shunned or restricted. Both reject the pejorative of “anti-vaxxer.”In the early 2000s, having spent time with the tribal people of West Papua, who continue to be brutally colonised by the Indonesian government and military, Paul was instrumental in setting up the Free West Papua Campaign, which he also helped to run for a time. Paul Kingsnorth, “This economic collapse is a ‘crisis of bigness’”, The Guardian, September 25 2011, accessed April 26 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/crisis-bigness-leopold-kohr?view=mobile. This essay also appears as the first piece in Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist. ↑