Michael Harris & J.B. MacKinnon ~ Building the Life We Cannot Buy | Banyen Books Event

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@BanyenBooksSoundVancouverjoins Michael Harris and J.B. MacKinnon for the virtual launch of 'All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy'. https://www.banyen.com/item/fL1Fm1B4rfHuhA4P8z5F0Q

Our culture of endless consumption is untenable. A climate emergency and shifting priorities are re-organizing our future. So, what comes next? Michael Harris' new book, 'All We Want', predicts a paradigm shift: to thrive in the 21st century we'll measure our lives not through shopping and endless growth, but through Craft, the Sublime, and Care. Harris reveals the origin of consumer culture – from the early ad men who learned to foment desire, to the politicians that promised endless material growth. He then reveals powerful alternatives to the consumer story. Called "this generation's McLuhan" (The Province), Harris offers us a profound book for this moment of societal reassessment.

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Michael Harris is the national bestselling author of 'Solitude' and 'The End of Absence', which are both available in a dozen languages. He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award and his books have been nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize, and the CBC Bookie Award. Harris also writes the tech podcast Command Line Heroes, which has been downloaded millions of times and was honoured at both the Webby Awards and the Shorty Awards. His essays on media, the arts, and civil liberties, appear in Esquire, The Washington Post, Wired, Salon, and The Globe & Mail.

J.B. MacKinnon is the author or coauthor of five books of nonfiction. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, National Geographic, and the Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. His latest book, 'The Day the World Stops Shopping', imagines what would happen if we committed to consuming far fewer of the Earth’s resources. Previous works are 'The Once and Future World', a bestseller about rewilding; 'The 100-Mile Diet' (with Alisa Smith), widely recognized as a catalyst of the local foods movement; 'I Live Here', and 'Dead Man in Paradise', which won Canada’s highest prize for literary nonfiction.

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