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Extinción inminente
Extinción inminente es la última novedad del lingüista, filósofo, politólogo Noam Chomsky, también uno de los activistas más influyentes del mundo. En esta ocasión, se trata de una recopilación de textos que nace de un llamado «Encuentro Chomsky» celebrado en Boston y dedicado a las amenazas a la supervivencia planetaria, cuyos tres temas fundamentales son la emergencia climática, la amenaza nuclear y el peligro que entraña el debilitamiento del sistema democrático en todo el mundo.
La solución pasa, según indica Chomsky en estas páginas reveladoras, por el activismo social e internacional: una serie de movimientos populares que ya se están organizando por todo el globo para forzar acuerdos inte rnacionales y afrontar este reto sin precedentes por la supervivencia de la civilización.
«No se puede pasar por alto la alarma de una «extinción inminente». Debería constituir un eje central firme de todo programa de concienciación, organización y activismo; figurar como trasfondo de cualquier forma de participación en todas las demás luchas# Y algo así presupone una sensibilidad más amplia hacia los problemas e injusticias que hostigan al mundo, una toma de conciencia más profunda, que sirva para inspirar un activismo comprometido, con un enfoque más penetrante sobre las raíces de tales asuntos y las interrelaciones que entre ellos se dan.»
La solución pasa, según indica Chomsky en estas páginas reveladoras, por el activismo social e internacional: una serie de movimientos populares que ya se están organizando por todo el globo para forzar acuerdos inte rnacionales y afrontar este reto sin precedentes por la supervivencia de la civilización.
«No se puede pasar por alto la alarma de una «extinción inminente». Debería constituir un eje central firme de todo programa de concienciación, organización y activismo; figurar como trasfondo de cualquier forma de participación en todas las demás luchas# Y algo así presupone una sensibilidad más amplia hacia los problemas e injusticias que hostigan al mundo, una toma de conciencia más profunda, que sirva para inspirar un activismo comprometido, con un enfoque más penetrante sobre las raíces de tales asuntos y las interrelaciones que entre ellos se dan.»
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Noam Chomsky
977 books17.4k followersAvram Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media.
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants (his father was William Chomsky) in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B.F. Skinner.
An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard M. Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. An anti-Zionist, Chomsky considers Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be worse than South African–style apartheid, and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.
Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mass media. Chomsky and his ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Since 2017, he has been Agnese Helms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants (his father was William Chomsky) in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B.F. Skinner.
An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard M. Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. An anti-Zionist, Chomsky considers Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be worse than South African–style apartheid, and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.
Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mass media. Chomsky and his ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Since 2017, he has been Agnese Helms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
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July 25, 2020
Noam says, “The urgency of ‘looming extinction’ cannot be overlooked.” “For 40% of the US population, these crucial issues of species survival are of little moment because Christ is returning to Earth within a couple of decades and then all will be settled, that’s 40% of the population” (Last sentence italicized by Noam). Wow. All Americans should be taught we are all alive on this planet because two Russians, Stanilav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov didn’t push the red button on nuclear tipped missiles when they both received messages to do so. Liberals obsess over false Russiagate and Bounty stories disproven by F.A.I.R. while learning nothing about Russia that would invalidate their unexamined hostile perception. Petrov and Arkhipov would today be heroes in the US, but for the mythical Cold War, and the vogue of Russia hating by liberals without even looking for evidence. Heck, neither conservative or liberal will tell you the patriotic story of US Air Force officer Leonard Perroots – he did the same thing Petrov and Arkhipov did but in the United States and never will the three be singled out to be thanked for saving the planet by avoiding nuclear war – real heroism and courage warrants three cases of historical amnesia meanwhile, Obama proposes a trillion-dollar upgrade of our nuclear arsenal, the opposite of lessening the nuclear threat, and his fans couldn’t love him more.
Washington recently put an $800 billion missile defense in Romania meant for non-existent Iranian missiles yet Russia and the world can easily see the threat these US missiles present just to Russia. Not very Golden Rule: the US would never tolerate Russian missiles being on our border. The world also knows that the US (Bush and Baker) also reneged on its verbal agreement for NATO to not move “one inch to the East”. As long as US conservatives and liberals don’t morally care about such deliberately provocative actions, or whether is the US is openly seen “the promise breaker”, no US non-progressive eyebrow will be raised. Neoliberalism keeps the poor focused on “short term problems of just getting by [which] displace fundamental questions about the fate of their children and grandchildren.” “It has become a very atomized society.” The title of this book is a nod to the fact that solutions must be done mutually, internationally. Neoliberalism and austerity has concentrated wealth and cast much of the population aside. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is the closest it has ever been in history now to Midnight. Their rationale was mentioned as 1. Increased threat from nuclear war 2. Increased threat from global warming, and, a new category 3. Increased threat from the undermining of democracy.” The problems of today’s state capitalism are: 1. Ignoring externalities 2. It’s drive for growth on a finite planet …until extinction. In 1981, Samuel Huntington spelled the Cold War myth out: “You may have to sell [intervention or other military action] in such a way as to create the misimpression that it is the Soviet Union you are fighting. That is what the United States has done ever since the Truman Doctrine in 1947”. The US reason for not decreasing the military budget at the Fall of the Soviet Union was the threat of “the technological sophistication of third-world powers.” A laughable no-evidence comment, which then disappeared in the media.
This book has a personal side for me, as it is the first book by Noam which I underwrote as fund advisor. This book has a cool official companion video piece you can find on YouTube that goes with that has the same title. If you can’t find that, Democracy Now has a less sharp version of Noam’s Boston speech on this title on YouTube.
Washington recently put an $800 billion missile defense in Romania meant for non-existent Iranian missiles yet Russia and the world can easily see the threat these US missiles present just to Russia. Not very Golden Rule: the US would never tolerate Russian missiles being on our border. The world also knows that the US (Bush and Baker) also reneged on its verbal agreement for NATO to not move “one inch to the East”. As long as US conservatives and liberals don’t morally care about such deliberately provocative actions, or whether is the US is openly seen “the promise breaker”, no US non-progressive eyebrow will be raised. Neoliberalism keeps the poor focused on “short term problems of just getting by [which] displace fundamental questions about the fate of their children and grandchildren.” “It has become a very atomized society.” The title of this book is a nod to the fact that solutions must be done mutually, internationally. Neoliberalism and austerity has concentrated wealth and cast much of the population aside. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is the closest it has ever been in history now to Midnight. Their rationale was mentioned as 1. Increased threat from nuclear war 2. Increased threat from global warming, and, a new category 3. Increased threat from the undermining of democracy.” The problems of today’s state capitalism are: 1. Ignoring externalities 2. It’s drive for growth on a finite planet …until extinction. In 1981, Samuel Huntington spelled the Cold War myth out: “You may have to sell [intervention or other military action] in such a way as to create the misimpression that it is the Soviet Union you are fighting. That is what the United States has done ever since the Truman Doctrine in 1947”. The US reason for not decreasing the military budget at the Fall of the Soviet Union was the threat of “the technological sophistication of third-world powers.” A laughable no-evidence comment, which then disappeared in the media.
This book has a personal side for me, as it is the first book by Noam which I underwrote as fund advisor. This book has a cool official companion video piece you can find on YouTube that goes with that has the same title. If you can’t find that, Democracy Now has a less sharp version of Noam’s Boston speech on this title on YouTube.
March 1, 2020
Longtime readers of Chomsky will find much familiar material in this slim volume, but the framework, laid out during the months before the 2016 election and going until about a year after the UN IPCC report on climate change, gives the topic even more urgency than it had before, and that’s saying something. The three major threats to the world—nuclear war, climate change and a general movement away from democratization—receive a careful, studied commentary here we apparently need to keep hearing until enough of us do what needs to be done. Chomsky makes many points worth considering, but for me, the most striking one—at least striking to me, since I hadn’t heard it articulated this way by him before—was the need for compassion and perspective. Our current president isn’t a reasonable candidate for such feelings, at least not to me, but his supporters may be. Why do Trump supporters cheer on policies that will wreck their lives? Why is the lifespan of Americans declining for the first time since WWI and why is midwestern American reeling under an opioid crisis?
It should be no surprise to anyone that Chomsky traces the reasons for these back to neoliberal policies embraced by both political parties, and argues that militancy and ridicule aren’t going to get us anywhere. He reminds us that progress happens through incremental measures, taken sustainedly, over long periods of time and with numerous setbacks and frustrations. But progress does happen. “(Austerity, the prioritization of militarization, and fossil fuel exploitation) have concentrated wealth and undermined functioning democracy, casting much of the population aside, leading to understandable resentment and anger, often taking pathological forms, and leaving people prey to demagogues,” he says. “These developments can only be countered by progressive social movements that offer credible answers to the often bitter exigencies of daily life and, even better, point the way to needed social and institutional change. That should be the basis for international solidarity, particularly in a globalized world where many face similar threats to decent existence and have opportunities for communication and interaction. These have been exploited effectively by international capital, but much less so by the victims of harsh policies. These [are] severe problems that have to be confronted and overcome.”
I saw Chomsky speak in October, 2016, right around when the first chapter in this book was delivered (in Boston, I think, mere days or weeks away from when I saw him in Chicago). The last excerpt took place in 2019. By all accounts, Chomsky is hale and cheerful, living in Arizona and still doing work, although he’s not likely to march or risk incarceration at the age of 90. But his lifetime of thinking and activism should serve as a gentle cajole to those who, like myself, view the whole mess and throw our hands up in frustration. “Despair is for those who see the end beyond all hope,” Gandalf says in The Lord of the Rings. “We do not.” Chomsky would echo this sentiment wholeheartedly, and if there’s a mantra to keep up on the wall during these trying times as we attempt to stave off what’s almost certainly our own destruction, that’s it.
It should be no surprise to anyone that Chomsky traces the reasons for these back to neoliberal policies embraced by both political parties, and argues that militancy and ridicule aren’t going to get us anywhere. He reminds us that progress happens through incremental measures, taken sustainedly, over long periods of time and with numerous setbacks and frustrations. But progress does happen. “(Austerity, the prioritization of militarization, and fossil fuel exploitation) have concentrated wealth and undermined functioning democracy, casting much of the population aside, leading to understandable resentment and anger, often taking pathological forms, and leaving people prey to demagogues,” he says. “These developments can only be countered by progressive social movements that offer credible answers to the often bitter exigencies of daily life and, even better, point the way to needed social and institutional change. That should be the basis for international solidarity, particularly in a globalized world where many face similar threats to decent existence and have opportunities for communication and interaction. These have been exploited effectively by international capital, but much less so by the victims of harsh policies. These [are] severe problems that have to be confronted and overcome.”
I saw Chomsky speak in October, 2016, right around when the first chapter in this book was delivered (in Boston, I think, mere days or weeks away from when I saw him in Chicago). The last excerpt took place in 2019. By all accounts, Chomsky is hale and cheerful, living in Arizona and still doing work, although he’s not likely to march or risk incarceration at the age of 90. But his lifetime of thinking and activism should serve as a gentle cajole to those who, like myself, view the whole mess and throw our hands up in frustration. “Despair is for those who see the end beyond all hope,” Gandalf says in The Lord of the Rings. “We do not.” Chomsky would echo this sentiment wholeheartedly, and if there’s a mantra to keep up on the wall during these trying times as we attempt to stave off what’s almost certainly our own destruction, that’s it.
October 15, 2020
Este é o primeiríssimo livro de Noam Chomsky que leio e, acredito que esteja longe também das suas principais contribuições para a ciência e ao pensamento humano, mas o tema da Pandemia está em voga e me chamou a atenção por isso. Simpatizei com a forma como Chomsky se coloca no debate mundial sobre facarmos no internacionalismo ou deixar-nos extinguir. Isso tem muito a ver com a atual situação do mundo que não tem visado a cooperação internacional, mas uma divisão, e isso pode desestabilizar os esforços contra o Cornoavírus. Enquanto muito autores que tratam da Pandemia são mais otimistas quanto à pós-Pandemia e os destinos da humanidade, Chomsky me pareceu mais apocalíptico, para ficar num termo do grande livro Apocalípticos e Integrados, de Umberto Eco, apesar de bastante consciente das agrugras que humanidade enfrenta e da devastação que já causou no Planeta. Enfim, como é um livro de entrevistas, muitas das colocações do autor são repetidas, sobrepostas, definitivamente não é a melhor forma de entender um pensador da contemporaneidade, mas talvez seja uma forma de começar a tatear o seu pensamento.
March 31, 2025
"No se puede pasar por alto la urgencia de una extinción inminente"
A pesar de no haber leído nada escrito por Chomsky, su fama como lingüista y activista le precede, por lo que me pareció interesante leer alguna obra suya. Este libro por una parte es como una conversación con él, y por la otra estás como espectador en una conversación que mantiene con otra persona de renombre. Aunque en general trata puntos muy interesantes, es posible que no sea la mejor opción para iniciar en la obra del autor.
Comparto gran parte de los puntos que trata Chomsky en sus charlas, además de parecerme importantes temas que deben debatirse y que siguen vigentes en la actualidad. A pesar de ello, en ocasiones se me queda un poco corto, tal vez porque desarrolle el tema en alguna de sus obras. También siento que no se mete lo suficiente en algunos temas relacionados con la desigualdad o el veganismo, muy relacionados con otros que trata en la obra.
En definitiva, es un libro interesante y que trata temas de gran relevancia por un autor al que es un placer leer. Si bien creo que no es el mejor libro para comenzar a leer a Chomsky, sí me ha dejado con ganas de conocer más obras suyas y seguir sus acciones.
Irbis.
A pesar de no haber leído nada escrito por Chomsky, su fama como lingüista y activista le precede, por lo que me pareció interesante leer alguna obra suya. Este libro por una parte es como una conversación con él, y por la otra estás como espectador en una conversación que mantiene con otra persona de renombre. Aunque en general trata puntos muy interesantes, es posible que no sea la mejor opción para iniciar en la obra del autor.
Comparto gran parte de los puntos que trata Chomsky en sus charlas, además de parecerme importantes temas que deben debatirse y que siguen vigentes en la actualidad. A pesar de ello, en ocasiones se me queda un poco corto, tal vez porque desarrolle el tema en alguna de sus obras. También siento que no se mete lo suficiente en algunos temas relacionados con la desigualdad o el veganismo, muy relacionados con otros que trata en la obra.
En definitiva, es un libro interesante y que trata temas de gran relevancia por un autor al que es un placer leer. Si bien creo que no es el mejor libro para comenzar a leer a Chomsky, sí me ha dejado con ganas de conocer más obras suyas y seguir sus acciones.
Irbis.
April 23, 2024
"…creo que hay pruebas evidentes de que los programas de austeridad neoliberales de la generación anterior han sido un factor sustancial, ya que han concentrado la riqueza y socavado la democracia operativa, dejando marginada a la mayor parte de la población e induciendo en ella un resentimiento y una rabia perfectamente comprensibles que a menudo adoptan formas patológicas y hacen de la gente una presa fácil para los demagogos. Se trata de procesos que sólo podrán confrontar aquellos movimientos sociales de corte progresista que puedan dar respuestas creíbles a las tan a menudo amargas exigencias de la vida diaria. Y, mejor aún, marcar las pautas para el cambio social e institucional que hace falta. Esa sería la base para la solidaridad internacional."
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
March 5, 2022
Ensayo de 160 páginas que recoge la conferencia que Chomsky dio en Boston en 2018 y que promueve el activismo social ante las amenazas de extinción a la que nos abocan los intereses privados y gobiernos como el estadounidense.
Como siempre, muy interesante la óptica y análisis del filósofo, de una lectura amena y sencilla, donde aporta significativos datos que nos invitan a plantearnos importantes problemas a los que se dirige la humanidad. Una lectura recomendada.
Como siempre, muy interesante la óptica y análisis del filósofo, de una lectura amena y sencilla, donde aporta significativos datos que nos invitan a plantearnos importantes problemas a los que se dirige la humanidad. Una lectura recomendada.
January 9, 2021
Nada muito novo no reino da Dinamarca. O mais interessante são as referências que ele cita, que depois você vai pesquisar na internet.
April 10, 2025
Simplemente leer esto un 10 de abril a 35°C al sol y después de un mes entero sin parar de llover................ qué deprimente
March 13, 2023
Aunque lo que presenta es familiar para les lectores de Chomsky, y aunque es muy básico en su brevedad, sigue siendo un buen resumen de un tema muy importante.
May 12, 2022
Érdekes könyv, a gondolatokkal nagyrészt tudtam azonosulni, a háború előtti gondolatait az orosz-ukrán helyzetről meg kifejezetten hátborzongató volt olvasni. Erősen az atomfenyegetésre fókuszál, ami tőlem távolabb álló téma, bár a demilitarizációt, fegyverek leszerelését stb. természetesen támogatandónak tartom. Azt furcsálltam, hogy amikor megkérdezik, hogy a klímaveszélyre adott pozitív megoldások közül mit emelne ki, akkor semmit sem emel ki, csak a "látjuk, hogy baj van, cselekedni kell" narratívát ismétli el - ezzel nem tudtam egyetérteni, mivel fontosnak tartom a pozitív példák üdvözlését is, és a fenyegetés nemigen hiszem, hogy átfordítaná az emberiséget a cselekvésbe.
February 6, 2022
Nesse pequeno livro baseado em uma palestra homônima de 2016, Chomsky fala sobre os 3 principais problemas que ameaçam a nossa existência na Terra: armas nucleares, mudança climática e mais recentemente as ameaças à democracia. Livro introdutório porém interessante e lúcido.
November 5, 2023
Un libro de extrema importancia… aunque la humanidad esté al borde de la extinción…
Increíble pensar que el 40% de la población en USA siga pensando que el calentamiento global se acabará por la llegada de jesucristo. Eso te habla del nivel cultural que tiene el país
Por otro lado llevamos más de setenta años viviendo a la sombra de amenazas nucleares, y es que USA sigue creándose guerras para seguir invirtiendo billones de dólares en armamento nuclear…
Solo falta mirar cómo ha armado a Israel y lo que los israelís están haciendo a los palestinos sin que ningún país intervenga en detener el genocidio ya que desataría una guerra nuclear y por tanto el exterminio de la humanidad..
Lectura obligada como todo lo que escribe Noam
Increíble pensar que el 40% de la población en USA siga pensando que el calentamiento global se acabará por la llegada de jesucristo. Eso te habla del nivel cultural que tiene el país
Por otro lado llevamos más de setenta años viviendo a la sombra de amenazas nucleares, y es que USA sigue creándose guerras para seguir invirtiendo billones de dólares en armamento nuclear…
Solo falta mirar cómo ha armado a Israel y lo que los israelís están haciendo a los palestinos sin que ningún país intervenga en detener el genocidio ya que desataría una guerra nuclear y por tanto el exterminio de la humanidad..
Lectura obligada como todo lo que escribe Noam
June 29, 2020
Chomsky presents the double threads of the current world (possible nuclear war and climate change), and how to combat them.
For long time Chonsky readers like me, this was a total waste of time. Chomsky has nothing new to tell.
But that in itself is not bad, because not everyone has read most of Chomsky's books. But this is just a small collection of his recent speeches that has phew citations. So the reader has to google most of things that Chomsky says and i hate that.
The internationalism part is very wage. I was expecting something more concrete than "international agreements" and "global progressive alliance"
For long time Chonsky readers like me, this was a total waste of time. Chomsky has nothing new to tell.
But that in itself is not bad, because not everyone has read most of Chomsky's books. But this is just a small collection of his recent speeches that has phew citations. So the reader has to google most of things that Chomsky says and i hate that.
The internationalism part is very wage. I was expecting something more concrete than "international agreements" and "global progressive alliance"
June 26, 2020
An astute -- if horrifying -- examination of expansive threats to the survival of civilization on Earth.
In INTERNATIONALISM OR EXTINCTION, Noam Chomsky conjures up linkages between two severe and imminent horrors -- the dawn of the Anthropocene and the threat of nuclear war -- amid the human-generated "sixth extinction," which is now underway.
The book is necessarily eerie and ominous both in substance and in scope. Nonetheless, Chomsky's effort to embrace the responsibility afforded to him as a public intellectual is indeed admirable in the age of the "alternative fact".
A fairly quick, but brilliant read.
In INTERNATIONALISM OR EXTINCTION, Noam Chomsky conjures up linkages between two severe and imminent horrors -- the dawn of the Anthropocene and the threat of nuclear war -- amid the human-generated "sixth extinction," which is now underway.
The book is necessarily eerie and ominous both in substance and in scope. Nonetheless, Chomsky's effort to embrace the responsibility afforded to him as a public intellectual is indeed admirable in the age of the "alternative fact".
A fairly quick, but brilliant read.
December 24, 2022
¡Qué libro tan importante, tan necesario! No sé si sea desalentador o completamente positivo, pero sí sé que vale la pena leerlo, incluso si eventualmente la especie resulta extinguiéndose.
March 9, 2021
Super important and short enough to read in a sitting or two. Loses a star as you can get the same thing off a youtube video/Chomsky is so good you have to give his work a grading curve.
August 8, 2021
"Humans are now facing the most critical questions that have ever arisen in their history. Questions that cannot be avoided or deferred, if there's to be any hope of preserving, let alone enhancing, organized human life on earth. We surely cannot expect systems of organized power, state or private systems, to take appropriate actions to address these crises, not unless they're compelled to do so by constant, dedicated, popular mobilization and activism."
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
January 21, 2022
Que livro sensacional! É um conjunto de diversas obras (transcrição de palestra, entrevista e seção de perguntas) com o intuito de te fazer pensar.
O mais interessante pra mim é que Chomsky é ativista desde a década de 30, então, ele já teve tempo para pensar sobre ativismo e maturar algumas ideias que eu, como ativista jovem, ainda não tinha conseguido entender.
Esse é desses livros completamente necessários para a vida moderna.
O mais interessante pra mim é que Chomsky é ativista desde a década de 30, então, ele já teve tempo para pensar sobre ativismo e maturar algumas ideias que eu, como ativista jovem, ainda não tinha conseguido entender.
Esse é desses livros completamente necessários para a vida moderna.
July 20, 2021
imagino que si nunca has reflexionado acerca del tema debe sonar innovador, pero aunque los ejemplos que cita me eran desconocidos, la gran mayoría del contenido es de sentido común. lo cual no quita su certeza, pero no sé, esperaba algo más viniendo de chomsky.
October 14, 2023
"Non basta vomitargli addosso il proprio sdegno; ci sono delle ragioni se ciò accade. Se osservate con attenzione le loro condizioni di vita, allora ne individuerete anche le cause, e solo così si potrà farvi fronte."
January 7, 2021
So basic, for myself a good book is one that make you learn something but this book doesn't and It is very short :/
September 23, 2021
Nada del otro mundo y nada que ningún Gobierno, Elite o Cristiano (acá ironizando) no sepa, mientras lo leía pensaba : que estoy haciendo si esto ya lo se, es lo que sale seguido en las noticias del mundo, es lo que leì, relaciono de muchas fuentes, es aquello que vemos que pasa en el mundo, nada que no te enteres si realmente escuchas las noticias de varias fuentes alrededor del mundo y "fundamentalmente" si a esas noticias las lees entre líneas.
Rescatar la palabra Intereses (desde el particular hasta el de grandes Estados u Gobiernos)
Algunos datos interesantes si a un lector de las cuestiones de la política yankee y enemigos les interesa o si es fan del pensador.
Me llamo poderosamente la atención cuando dice: Para el 40% de la población de los Estados Unidos, estos problemas cruciales de la supervivencia de las especies son de poca importancia porque Cristo regresará a la Tierra dentro de un par de décadas y luego todo estará resuelto..." ( ??¿¿ no sé si es ironía tremenda, el subconciente o si ese 40% todavía en el siglo XXI siguen creyendo en Santa claus o papa noel???)
En especifico el libro es de rápida lectura, ya que son apenas 142 pag con numerosas notas y citas que apoyan sus argumentos y ratifican los dichos y escritos....
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Nothing from the other world and nothing that no Government, Elite or Christian (here ironically) does not know, while I was reading it I thought: what am I doing if I already know this, it is what comes out often in the news of the world, is what I read, I relate from many sources, it is what we see happening in the world, nothing that you do not find out if you really listen to the news from various sources around the world and "fundamentally" if you read that news between the lines.
Rescue the word Interests (from the individual to that of large States or Governments)
Some interesting facts if a reader of the issues of Yankee politics and enemies is interested or if they are a fan of the thinker.
I am powerfully struck when he says: For 40% of the population of the United States, these crucial problems of species survival are of little importance because Christ will return to Earth in a couple of decades and then everything will be solved. ... "(?? I don't know if it is tremendous irony, the subconscious or if that 40% still in the 21st century still believe in Santa Claus or Santa Claus ???)
Specifically, the book is quick to read, since there are only 142 pages with numerous notes and quotes that support its arguments and ratify the sayings and writings ...
Rescatar la palabra Intereses (desde el particular hasta el de grandes Estados u Gobiernos)
Algunos datos interesantes si a un lector de las cuestiones de la política yankee y enemigos les interesa o si es fan del pensador.
Me llamo poderosamente la atención cuando dice: Para el 40% de la población de los Estados Unidos, estos problemas cruciales de la supervivencia de las especies son de poca importancia porque Cristo regresará a la Tierra dentro de un par de décadas y luego todo estará resuelto..." ( ??¿¿ no sé si es ironía tremenda, el subconciente o si ese 40% todavía en el siglo XXI siguen creyendo en Santa claus o papa noel???)
En especifico el libro es de rápida lectura, ya que son apenas 142 pag con numerosas notas y citas que apoyan sus argumentos y ratifican los dichos y escritos....
.........................
Nothing from the other world and nothing that no Government, Elite or Christian (here ironically) does not know, while I was reading it I thought: what am I doing if I already know this, it is what comes out often in the news of the world, is what I read, I relate from many sources, it is what we see happening in the world, nothing that you do not find out if you really listen to the news from various sources around the world and "fundamentally" if you read that news between the lines.
Rescue the word Interests (from the individual to that of large States or Governments)
Some interesting facts if a reader of the issues of Yankee politics and enemies is interested or if they are a fan of the thinker.
I am powerfully struck when he says: For 40% of the population of the United States, these crucial problems of species survival are of little importance because Christ will return to Earth in a couple of decades and then everything will be solved. ... "(?? I don't know if it is tremendous irony, the subconscious or if that 40% still in the 21st century still believe in Santa Claus or Santa Claus ???)
Specifically, the book is quick to read, since there are only 142 pages with numerous notes and quotes that support its arguments and ratify the sayings and writings ...
January 2, 2022
Este foi o meu primeiro contato com o autor que eu particularmente não conhecia antes.
O início do livro me deixou um pouco incomodado e com a impressão que ele seria bastante tendencioso para um espectro político e não fosse apresentar dados e fatos para confirmar seu ponto de vista. Ao longo da leitura essa impressão foi, aos poucos, diminuindo.
O livro é baseado em uma palestra que o autor deu em um determinado momento e depois apresenta algumas entrevistas com perguntas e respostas ainda sobre o que foi apresentado na palestra. Dessa maneira, a leitura fluiu de uma maneira bem fácil, sendo possível ler em um único dia, como foi meu caso.
Chomsky apresenta reflexões sobre o que considera as principais ameaças à existência humana e dá algumas ideias sobre o que e como podemos fazer para não chegarmos na extinção total.
Fiquei curioso para ver a palestra e ler outras coisas do autor, mas também fiquei um pouco com vontade de ler sobre o "outro lado" para ter uma visão mais ampla (e talvez, assim, tirar a minha impressão inicial do livro).
O início do livro me deixou um pouco incomodado e com a impressão que ele seria bastante tendencioso para um espectro político e não fosse apresentar dados e fatos para confirmar seu ponto de vista. Ao longo da leitura essa impressão foi, aos poucos, diminuindo.
O livro é baseado em uma palestra que o autor deu em um determinado momento e depois apresenta algumas entrevistas com perguntas e respostas ainda sobre o que foi apresentado na palestra. Dessa maneira, a leitura fluiu de uma maneira bem fácil, sendo possível ler em um único dia, como foi meu caso.
Chomsky apresenta reflexões sobre o que considera as principais ameaças à existência humana e dá algumas ideias sobre o que e como podemos fazer para não chegarmos na extinção total.
Fiquei curioso para ver a palestra e ler outras coisas do autor, mas também fiquei um pouco com vontade de ler sobre o "outro lado" para ter uma visão mais ampla (e talvez, assim, tirar a minha impressão inicial do livro).
March 14, 2024
Livro que fala sobre a necessidade de uma cooperação a nível global para, essencialmente, evitar a nossa extinção enquanto espécie. A nossa e outras.
Assim, Chomsky revela sua preocupação com o enfraquecimento das democracias, a ameaça cada vez mais real de uma guerra nuclear e o aquecimento global que não pára de crescer.
Esperava mais porque já tinha visto vários elogios que colocavam o autor nos píncaros. A mim, pareceu-me que disse o óbvio. Não que não seja necessário, mas de um intelectual tão renomado esperava ler algo que já não se soubesse.
Noam não esconde seu ativismo, suas preferências políticas e sua parcialidade. Parece, por vezes, um pouco ingênuo. É uma pena que, como todos, não tenha abordado a solução óbvia de curto/médio prazo para a pobreza, miséria, capitalismo selvagem, aquecimento global e outras tragédias humanas...
Assim, Chomsky revela sua preocupação com o enfraquecimento das democracias, a ameaça cada vez mais real de uma guerra nuclear e o aquecimento global que não pára de crescer.
Esperava mais porque já tinha visto vários elogios que colocavam o autor nos píncaros. A mim, pareceu-me que disse o óbvio. Não que não seja necessário, mas de um intelectual tão renomado esperava ler algo que já não se soubesse.
Noam não esconde seu ativismo, suas preferências políticas e sua parcialidade. Parece, por vezes, um pouco ingênuo. É uma pena que, como todos, não tenha abordado a solução óbvia de curto/médio prazo para a pobreza, miséria, capitalismo selvagem, aquecimento global e outras tragédias humanas...
December 8, 2020
Um livro sucinto e importante para nos atentar sobre ameaças reais da atualidade. Contudo, senti falta de mais fontes científicas e estudos que corroborem o pensamento de Chomsky, embora os fatos que ele apresenta sejam interessantes.
O livro é baseado em uma palestra dada pelo autor e por isso talvez não haja um aprofundamento maior.
Apesar das críticas, acho um livro válido tendo em vista a linguagem acessível para todos os públicos e justamente pela falta de informações técnicas, que torna o conteúdo mais palatável para o leigo em geral.
O livro é baseado em uma palestra dada pelo autor e por isso talvez não haja um aprofundamento maior.
Apesar das críticas, acho um livro válido tendo em vista a linguagem acessível para todos os públicos e justamente pela falta de informações técnicas, que torna o conteúdo mais palatável para o leigo em geral.
March 9, 2021
Chomsky define y aborda tres de las amenazas más graves a las que nos enfrentamos actualmente (nuclear, climática y democrática). Es libro es una llamada urgente a pasar a la acción.
A modo de curiosidad, recuerda el momento que él mismo se interesó por primera vez por la política: fue tras la caída de Barcelona en la Guerra Civil Española. Chomsky rememora las librerías de segunda mano y los locales anarcosindicalistas que abrieron los refugiados españoles que acabaron en NYC y cómo este descubrimiento a nuevas ideas fue determinante en su juventud.
A modo de curiosidad, recuerda el momento que él mismo se interesó por primera vez por la política: fue tras la caída de Barcelona en la Guerra Civil Española. Chomsky rememora las librerías de segunda mano y los locales anarcosindicalistas que abrieron los refugiados españoles que acabaron en NYC y cómo este descubrimiento a nuevas ideas fue determinante en su juventud.
June 6, 2021
Una lectura de un día, sobre un foco principal que es la preocupación por el armamento nuclear en el mundo, entrelazado por la preocupación del calentamiento global, argumentado desde la política de diferentes países pero con gran enfasis el gobierno de Estados Unidos.
Es chévere saber de esto, pero es algo que digamos que sabemos todos y no encuentro grandes alternativas en su opinión aparte de hablar de un activismo.
Es chévere saber de esto, pero es algo que digamos que sabemos todos y no encuentro grandes alternativas en su opinión aparte de hablar de un activismo.
July 1, 2024
2.5 se redondea a 2 finjamos q si pq tampoco quiero ponerle 3
me parece bastante puntual sus argumentos, claro armas nucleares malas, hacen a la gente miserable, etc etc pero muy general, muy simplista todo, son temas que por supuesto necesitan expandirse conjunto a los demás factores y fenómenos con los q se relacionan y entiendo que en el libro desea ser breve pero al final no me provoca mucho you know (me vine con demasiadas expectativas)
me parece bastante puntual sus argumentos, claro armas nucleares malas, hacen a la gente miserable, etc etc pero muy general, muy simplista todo, son temas que por supuesto necesitan expandirse conjunto a los demás factores y fenómenos con los q se relacionan y entiendo que en el libro desea ser breve pero al final no me provoca mucho you know (me vine con demasiadas expectativas)
January 7, 2021
Es innegable que como humanidad nos enfrentamos quizás a las mayores amenazas a la existencia : la crisis ambiental, la amenaza nuclear y el debilitamiento de los valores de la ilustración.
Me deja perplejo la idea de que haya un movimiento de ilustración oscura que propenda por detener los avances que hemos logrado en los dos últimos siglos.
Me deja perplejo la idea de que haya un movimiento de ilustración oscura que propenda por detener los avances que hemos logrado en los dos últimos siglos.
January 29, 2022
O cavaleiro do Apocalipse...
O livro é a transcrição de falas/palestras/entrevistas, com isso já se perde um tanto da beleza da leitura.
De qualquer maneira, traz um ponto de vista com o qual é importante ter contato. Para mim, as informações se somaram ao meu repertório e atingiram o objetivo do autor de trazer à consciência o assunto da extinção humana.
O livro é a transcrição de falas/palestras/entrevistas, com isso já se perde um tanto da beleza da leitura.
De qualquer maneira, traz um ponto de vista com o qual é importante ter contato. Para mim, as informações se somaram ao meu repertório e atingiram o objetivo do autor de trazer à consciência o assunto da extinção humana.
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