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Samuel Alexander

Born

in Australia

January 06, 1975

Website

http://simplicityinstitute.org/

Genre

Philosophy, Sustainability

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Dr. Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute, is a lecturer at the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called ‘Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ into the Masters of Environment. He is also a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. He is author of Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) and Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013), and editor of Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009) and co-editor of Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014).

As well as his academic work, in recent years Sam has been working on a ‘simpler w ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 531 ratings · 77 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation 3.93 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeteri Kadarsa Çoktur - Thoreau’nun Alternatif İktisadı by Samuel Alexander, Işıl Şeremet (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 110 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary by Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voluntary Simplicity: The poetic alternative to consumer culture by Samuel Alexander (Editor), Mark A. Burch (Contributor), Jerome M. Segal (Contributor) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parayı Tahrif Et - Diyojen’in Kayıp Diyalogları by Samuel Alexander, Onur İşçi (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prosperous Descent 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death for Gaia: Ecocide and the Righteous Assassins by Samuel Alexander, Peter Burdon (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future: Life Beyond this Brief Anomaly by Samuel Alexander, Joshua Floyd 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time is the Mind of Space.”
― Samuel Alexander, Space, Time and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow Part One

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“Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation

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“While not everyone can be expected to be an ‘expert’ in all matters of governance, we know that any of us might one day be called upon to serve on the People’s Council,”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation

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