This is not Topsoil (AAP, 2024) by Sara Bissen – 2024 July 3
This book follows the publication, ten years ago, of “Topsoil,” an essay about dispossession of soil and the reproduction of capitalistic value, focusing on the rural condition—the basis of the pyramid on which the megamachine is founded. The book shows the destructive erosion of such a basis as evidence of the folly of the system and its mechanism of the division of consciousness, society, nature and body. Ten years later, This is not Topsoil reproduces and sacrifices “Topsoil” by adding a discussion about the absence of soil in our society as the end of a much needed common language.