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Astra Taylor: The Age of Insecurity (2023, House of Anansi Press)

Writer, filmmaker, and organizer Astra Taylor takes a curious, critical, and ultimately hopeful look at …

insecurity as the tie that binds

The thesis - that the modern state and capitalism has brought us to crisis by manufacturing and maintaining insecurity across classes - is articulately threaded with considerations of roots - in language, history, myth, and rights - of care, securitization, commons, insurance, obligation, and possibility.