A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein).In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos. While popular media has reduced the issue of faith to a talking-heads debate between atheists and believ...

Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon’s production and maintenance. The contributors explore how, where, why, and by whom canons are formed; how they ...

Jensen's perspective from within the conservative halls of a southern state university names the United States as an empire driven by the desire to create puppet governments in key areas around the world. He reminds us that every empire in the history of the world has been destroyed, usually in a burst of brutality. Jensen invites each of us to take steps to dismantle this empire, but he also tells us how we can do it in a nonviolent way.

Jensen is a regular lecturer/writer/guest on radio and TV on issues of politics, race and gender. Citizens of the Empire (2004) was very successful and created a high level of visibility for Jensen, who will follow up on that success with another tour and roster of speaking engagements. Much like Citizens, this is a plain-spoken, practical and personal approach to a very complex set of issues, one which will help both students and adults think through issues of race and racism.

There was nothing out of the ordinary about Jim Koplin. He was just your typical central Minnesota gay farm boy with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology who developed anarchist-influenced, radical-feminist, and anti-imperialist politics, while never losing touch with his rural roots. But perhaps the most important thing about Jim is that throughout his life, almost literally to his dying breath, he spent some part of every day on the most important work we have: tending the garden.

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting match that precludes any meaningful discussion.It's also a time of anxiety, as we're faced with economic and ecological crises on a global scale, with stakes that seem higher than ever before. I...

In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. But Jackson’s contribution to contemporary intellectual and political life goes well beyond plant breeding. Ever since he created one of the first university environmental studies programs in the early 1970s, Jackson has been exploring the human predicaments around susta...

In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was in...

This program includes an introduction read by the author.The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead.You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world’s largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9...

This book tells the story of my career in the American penal system as a Correctional Officer, Juvenile Correctional Officer, Transport Officer, and Jailer. Section One enumerates some of the stories of working in a federal prison with 2,200 Inmates. This section tells the story of what happens with officers in a prison. Section Two describes the problems inmates have - usually problems caused by other inmates. Section Three deals with inmate – transportation problems. I transported inmate...

We all have secrets hidden somewhere in our past. Many are of little value, while others may be sources of embarrassment. What if your secrets could hurt or harm those closest to you?Captain Mark Styler is blamed by his daughter and extended family for his wife Katherine's death. Chantal, the Android and her secret fugitive past, and Sara, the ship's computer, will cause trouble for all those who know her.These three individuals live and work on the Marvel, a priva...

The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead.You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world's largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurri...