Waking to nature with Thoreau and Benjamin or, psychopolitical ecology

"What do two white men born in the 19th century have to say that could be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially on waking up and critiquing anti-woke ideology on the topics of nature, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, and industrial capitalism and its technologies. As Giblett shows, Henry David Thoreau - an inspiration for William Melvin Kelley's writing on 'staying woke' - and Walter Benjamin provide tools of critique for waking to sexism, racism and placism"--