The beginning comes after the end : notes on a world of change
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2026.
Physical Description
147 pages ; 19 cm
Summary
"Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world." --
Contents
- Swimming upstream
- Winged seeds
- Varieties of invisibility
- A single garment of destiny
- Shadows of the past
- The disconnectors
- Honey and the hive
- The river widens
- Otherwise
- Acknowledgments
- Notes.