NAOMI KLEIN
Contents
Key statements
Titles in Chronological Order
Books in Chronological Order with Publisher’s Review
Klein, No
Is Not Enough. “…the culture
of maximum extraction, of endless grabbing and disposing, has reached some kind
of breaking point. Clearly, it is the
culture itself that must be confronted now, and not policy by policy, but at
the root” (262).
Klein, This
Changes Everything. “The “real
reason we are failing to rise to the climate moment is because the actions
required directly challenge our reigning economic paradigm. Only when we identify these chains do we have
a chance of breaking free” (63).
Her five books in chronological order
No
Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, 1999 (rev. 2009)
Fences
and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization
Debate, 2002
Shock
Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 2007
This
Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, 2014
No Is
Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, 2017
And a DVD: Disaster Capitalism
KLEIN’S FIVE BOOKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER EACH ACCOMPANIED
BY A BRIEF PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
Altogether her five books press upon us a large-scale
condemnation of US “neo-liberal” (unregulated) capitalism and offer a vision of
a sustainable world.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. 1999. 10th Anniversary Edition with a New
Introduction by the Author by Naomi Klein. 2nd
ed. 2009. 544pp. NO LOGO was an international
bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times).
In
the last decade, No Logo has become an international
phenomenon and a cultural manifesto for the critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide.
As America faces a second economic depression, Klein's analysis of our
corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever.
Equal parts cultural
analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, No
Logo is the first book to put the new resistance into pop-historical
and clear economic perspective. Naomi Klein tells a story of rebellion and
self-determination in the face of our new branded world.
FENCES
AND WINDOWS: Dispatches
from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. Macmillan, Picador, 2002.
304 Pages
Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in
2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be "probably the most
influential person under the age of 35 in the world," in Fences
and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an
activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement
from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September
11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein
once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether
she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food;
"free trade;" or the development of the movement itself and its
future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant
activists and thinkers for a new generation.
Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2007.
In this groundbreaking
alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton
Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular
myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq
today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed
terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray
wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that
really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is
one of those books."
The
Rise of Disaster Capitalism (DVD) This riveting hour-long lecture and interview
explains the ideas and research behind Naomi Klein's book that exposed the
popular myth of the free market economy's peaceful global victory. Sale price: $9.98
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the
Climate. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Observer Book
of the Year,
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year
Forget
everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not
about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize
this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build
something radically better.
In her most
provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The
Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound
threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against
life on earth.
Klein exposes the
myths that are clouding the climate debate.
We have been told the market will save us,
when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every
day. We have been told it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we
know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the
“free-market” playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies,
and reclaiming our democracies.
We have also been told
that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all
around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless
extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring.
Climate change, Klein
argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the
language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer
about changing the light bulbs. It’s about changing the world—before the world
changes so drastically that no one is safe.
Either we leap—or we sink.
Once a decade, Naomi
Klein writes a book that redefines its era. No Logo did so for
globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think
about austerity. This Changes Everything is about to upend the
debate about the stormy era already upon us.
(I sent you my analysis of this book when we discussed it. –Dick)
No Is Not Enough: Resisting
Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need. Haymarket, 2017.
“This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this
surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how,
under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And
it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to
flip the script and arrive at a radically better future.”
–From the Introduction
Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous
escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a
corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating
and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a
fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the
economy, national security, and the environment.
Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling
author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks,
climate change, and “brand bullies.” From this unique perspective, she
argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the
worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the
very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of
white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to
merely resist, to say “no.” Our historical moment demands more: a credible
and inspiring “yes,” a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from
those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the
fair and caring world we want and need.
This timely, urgent book from one of our most influential
thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, helping us understand
just how we got here, and how we can, collectively, come together and
heal.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist,
syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine,
and most recently This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the
Climate. In 2017 she joined The Intercept as
Senior Correspondent.
OMNI AND NAOMI KLEIN
For a decade
OMNI’s Climate Book Forum has studied the causes and consequences of CO2
warming. Generally we have followed a
policy of modest understatement, which I think all of us thought appropriate to
the complexity of issues for (mainly) non-scientists. The result is, we have taken time to prepare
to be a public voice. Now that voice is
needed. For during that time, climatic
and environmental conditions have worsened dramatically, and the worst
imaginable person has gained presidential power. I trust you will join me in choosing to
ratchet up our voice and to make our Book Forum known and felt in our
community.
Our publicity
has improved. We are discussing our
books more deeply. We are preparing to
give Joe Romm’s introduction to warming special
public attention as an addition to our Forum. We are connecting these scholarly books to each other and to
politics better. (I return again and again to Hansen’s Storms of my Grandchildren, which was
crucially important to me for revealing in one narrative both the science and
the repressive politics of warming under President Bush. The impeachment of President Trump is being
discussed at all levels.) In many ways
we are making our voice heard.
Naomi
Klein offers her voice as megaphone. She
has written five books, each of which is significant on its own but which
together provide a potent analysis of the US economic system. (I have not read Fences and Windows but I assume it affirms her other books.)
No Logo and Shock Doctrine analyze two major aspects
of US capitalism: expansion of growth for profit by advertising, and opportunities
for profit provided by imperial and natural disasters.
In This Changes Everything, at the end of
chapter one, she presents her radical
central thesis: “…the real reason we are
failing to rise to the climate moment is because the actions required directly
challenge our reigning economic paradigm …, the stories on which Western
cultures are founded…, as well as many of the activities that form our
identities and define our communities. . . .They also spell extinction for the
richest and most powerful industry the world has ever known—the oil and gas
industry….In short, we have not responded to this challenge because we are locked
in—politically, physically, and culturally.
Only when we identify these chains do we have a chance of breaking free”
(63).
From her
perspective of two decades of studying “ecocidal capitalism”-- the “brand
bullies” of advertising, the bullet bullies of empire, and the corporatism that
drives them--, in No Is Not Enough Klein
perceives Donald Trump as their inevitable extension, “a logical conclusion…of
pretty much all the worst trends of the past half century” (9). But our knowledge of this dark reality is
the rock on which we can stand and resist, a foundation for an alternative
economic system and world, condensed into “The Leap Manifesto” printed in full
at the end.
Let us publicize
Naomi Klein and her five books (and many essays unmentioned above) as an
authoritative guidebook to resisting the chaos of extreme weather through her system
of values and methods.
Dick
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