Book Launch: ‘Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’

Book Launch: ‘Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with author Adam Greenfield and Leo Hollis

Wednesday 24th July
Talk starts at 7pm.
Free entry.
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross, N1 9DX
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Autonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.

Adam, a longtime volunteer with self-organized initiatives from ACT/UP Philadelphia and the Berkeley Free Clinic in the 1990s to Occupy Sandy more recently, is also a writer and urbanist with some five books under his belt. His previous effort for Verso was 2017’s widely-acclaimed “Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life.

In his new book, he recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.

Leo Hollis is the author of the acclaimed Inheritance, and the international bestseller, Cities are Good for You. He lives in London.

Reviews
“Mixing clear-eyed, unwavering analysis with deep compassion, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction”
Jenny Odell, author of Saving Time

“When three emergencies — climate, political and social – build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than AG. Lifehouse constructs a much needed, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning.”
Eyal Weizman, author of Hollowland

“A succinct, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us, and a nuanced, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate, local, collective direct action.”
Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid

More on the author
Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics, he previously taught in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Urban Design program of the Bartlett, University College London. His books include Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous ComputingUrban Computing and Its Discontents, and the bestsellers Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life.

Venue:
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London, N1 9DX
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