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Kirkpatrick Sale 01-19-96 Air date
Kirkpatrick Sale (Ithaca, New York 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about...
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Kirkpatrick Sale 01-19-96 Air date
Kirkpatrick Sale (Ithaca, New York 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about environmentalism, technology and political decentralism. He has been described as "a leader of the Neo-Luddites"[1] and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."[2]
Life and work
Sale graduated from Cornell University, majoring in history, in 1958.[3][4] He served as editor of the student-owned and managed newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Sale was one of the leaders of the May 23, 1958 protest against university policies forbidding male and female students fraternizing and its "in loco parentis" policy. Sale and his friend and roommate Richard Farina, and three others, were charged by Cornell. The protest was described in Farina's 1966 novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.[2]
Upon graduation, Sale married Faith Apfelbaum (in Cornell, 1958) who later worked as an editor with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Amy Tan. She died in 1999.[5]
Sale worked initially in journalism for the leftist journal New Leader and the New York Times Magazine, before becoming a freelance journalist. He spent time in Ghana and wrote his first book about it. His second book, SDS, was about the radical 1960s group Students for a Democratic Society. Subsequent books explored radical decentralism, bioregionalism, environmentalism, the Luddites and similar themes.[4] He has continued to write for publications like The Nation, CounterPunch, The New York Review of Books, Utne Reader and Mother Jones.
[edit] Secessionist activism
Books
•After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8223-3938-0
•The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream, Free Press, 2001.
•Why the Sea Is Salt: Poems of Love and Loss, iuniverse, 2001.
•Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age, Addison Wesley, 1995.
•The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992, Hill and Wang, 1993.
•The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, Knopf, 1990.
•Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985. ISBN 0-87156-847-0
•Human Scale. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980. ISBN 0-698-11013-7
•Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. New York: Random House, 1975.
•SDS, Random House, 1973. Vintage Books edition (paperback) 1974. ISBN 0394478894
•The Land and People of Ghana, Lippincott, 1963, 1972.
[edit] Writings on-line
•links Sale articles as updated at Middlebury Institute, including "Breakdown of Nations," "Small Is Powerful," "Lessons of 9/11," "Things Fall Apart," "Seeing Red - and Seeing Blue," "The Case for American Secession," as well as videos featuring Sale.
•Sale contribution in The American Conservative magazine to the topic What is Left? What is Right? Does it matter?, August 28, 2006.
•Blue State Secession, The Nation, December 13, 2005.
•Imperial Entropy: Collapse of the American Empire, Counterpunch, February 22, 2005.
•An End to the Israeli Experiment? Unmaking a Grievous Error, Counterpunch, March 3, 2003.
•the Fire of His Genius, Robert Fulton and the American Dream, summary and first chapter of Sales book.
•Unabomber's Secret Treatise: Is There Method In His Madness?, printed at Electronic Frontier Foundation web site.
•The Imposition of Technology
•Five Facets of a Myth
•An Overview of Decentralism, Keynote Remarks at E. F. Schumacher Society Decentralist Conference, June 28-30, 1996.
•The Columbian Legacy and the Ecosterian Response, E. F. Schumacher Society Third Annual Lecture, October 1990.
•Mother of All: An Introduction to Bioregionalism, E. F. Schumacher Society Third Annual Lecture, October 1983.
[edit] Interviews
•Interview on Luddism at primitivism.com
•Luddism in the New Millennium, David Kupfer interview
•Kevin Kelly interview (WiReD), 2004.
•The Bioregionalist Vision, Julie A. Wortman interview
•Apostle of Catosptrophe, Derek Turner interview, Quarterly Review, 2007 (PDF).
•A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S., Peter Applebaum interview, New York Times, 2007.
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