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	Dark Age Ahead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in the U.S. and Canada.
		She argues that this decay threatens to create a dark age unless the trends are reversed.
		Jacobs characterizes a dark age as a "mass amnesia"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_Age_Ahead (553 words)

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		Dark Age Ahead shows that without an underlying theoretical grasp, even the most brilliant authors with the most brilliant insights, such as those evinced in Life and Death of Great American Cities, are likely to falter.
		Jacobs defines a Dark Age to be a state of cultural amnesia, a “horrible ordeal” where a previous way of life slides into “an abyss of forgetfulness” (pp.6-7).
		Jacobs’s definition of a Dark Age as cultural forgetting implies that 18th century American culture is in a Dark Age of cultural forgetting because the techniques of slave driving, horse-drawn carriage driving, and blood letting as a medical cure have been forgotten.
	www.democracy-project.com /archives/002093.html (995 words)

	Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs (kottke.org)
		Dark Age Ahead is ultimately another in the this-world-is-going-to-hell genre of media, but Jacobs makes it seem OK somehow.
		Not that the examples she cites aren't eventually relevant (after all, a dark age pretty much affects everything in a culture), but they don't go directly to her main points.
		Dark Age Ahead is one of the 40 books written about on kottke.org.
	www.kottke.org /04/06/dark-age-ahead (546 words)

	Dark Age Ahead Books
		The Dark Age is predictable from history, which shows that each major collapse of civilization was followed by a disturbing social transformation.
		A Dark Age for her is a society-wide forgetting of more advanced knowledge and practice due to some sort of external or internal factor, like a severe environmental event or injurious political mechanizations.
		While Dark Age Ahead, may be a bit disjointed or hard to read in spots it will reward the patient reader with a number of insightful nuggets that might one day prevent the death of great cultures or at the least...
	www.supermantv.net /1400062322/Dark_Age_Ahead.html (802 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Her bluster-free writing style, respect for the most mundane facts and minutiae, and architect's appreciation of the symbiotic complexity of large-scale structures ("Everything is connected with everything else") have been a powerful inspiration in a world being superhighwayed and stripmalled out of existence.
		Dark Age Ahead is her latest attempt to tackle real-world problems in a hard-headed, pragmatic manner.
		But taken as a whole, Dark Age Ahead is an illustration of Karl Kraus' dictum that the value of education is best displayed when educated people speak on a subject that lies outside their field of expertise.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=10354 (966 words)

	What Are They Reading?
		Dark Age Ahead is a survey of the current American cultural and professional landscape, in which Jacobs critiques North American culture for losing not just its most valued traditions but even the memories of them.
		This essentially is the definition of a dark age, like the one that followed the fall of Rome, to which the title refers.
		In predicting the coming dark age, she unsurprisingly differs from the conservative commentators who finger Hollywood or the music industry as the culprits in the decline of collective morality: "Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities," she declares.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040816/reading (650 words)

	Learning Centre - Learning Community - Online Workshops - Jane Jacobs
		Jane Jacobs was interviewed onstage by the KW Record’s Terry Pender about her book, Dark Age Ahead, and Tamarack was delighted to be able to capture this event on tape.
		In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation and government; and self-policing by learned professions.
		The decay of these pillars, Jacobs contends, is behind such ills as environmental crisis, racism and the growing gulf between rich and poor; their continued degradation could lead us into a new Dark Age, a period of cultural collapse in which all that keeps a society alive and vibrant is forgotten.
	www.tamarackcommunity.ca /g3s43c.html (794 words)

	Review article: Dark Age Ahead
		Sometimes a dark age comes from without, as when invasion and conquest all but obliterated the cultures of the Western Hemisphere.
		The consequence was not adaptation but enforced stagnation and retreat: six centuries later, at the nadir of the Dark Ages, impoverished European peasants had lost even the memory of Roman technology and agriculture along with the civilization that had supported them.
		Dark Age Patterns — Paradigms of civilization have succeeded one another.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue104/darkage.html (2566 words)

	Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs \| Straight.com Vancouver
		Nor is that Dark Age, which set Europe back for centuries, the only precedent that should alarm us.
		Dark Age Ahead describes five pillars of western civilization--community and family, higher education, science and technology, accountable government, and self-policing professions--whose collapse is leading us to extinction, unless they can be shored up: "A culture is unsalvageable if stabilizing forces themselves become ruined and irrelevant.
		Dark Age is a brief book, a heartfelt and urgent distress signal.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=2715 (349 words)

	Why the West is riding for a fall \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Dark Age Ahead (Random House, New York), was written by Jane Jacobs.
		And his dissection of decline, along with the warnings contained in Dark Age Ahead, are far from unusual among American scholars.
		In her study of the decline of civilisations, Jacobs found that significant population flux was a byproduct of decline.
	www.energybulletin.net /4023.html (2078 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs, Paperback
		Her latest salvo, Dark Age Ahead, is, despite the pessimism of many of its conclusions, also positive, less a jeremiad than a firm but helpful reminder of just how much is at stake.
		Jacobs does not believe a North American dark age inevitable, leavening her ominous predictions with practical solutions and mordant humor.
		The only good point that she made in the book was how almost every technologically advance country failed at one point in time but after that she pretty much blames are morals on why our country is failing.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=1400076706&itm=3 (1462 words)

	The Dark Age Blog :: The Black Books of Dark Age. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And I concur with this thesis that Dark Age has something to do with "thought in general" -- that is, as a disease of mind and consciousness.
		The sickness of Dark Age has its roots in the collapse of the dialogical principle and the resurgence of the monological.
		But the really interesting part of this essay is how he maps the history of Dark Ages to reveal that the birth of a new and significant consciousness has always been preceded by a Dark Age -- the tomb, in other words, is the womb.
	www.darkage.ca /blog/_archives/2005/1/7/233962.html (1623 words)

	Common Ground - October 2004 - Jane Jakobs's Dark Age Ahead by Geoff Olson
		In popular imagination, the Dark Ages are a historical pothole, albeit a big one, along Western civilization’s ascending road.
		The author suggests a Dark Age isn’t a one-shot deal for any given place and time, but rather a strange attractor in the chaos of history.
		Dark Age Ahead is a sobering read, but not necessarily a fatalistic one.
	commonground.ca /iss/0410159/cg159_Jacobs.shtml (1043 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Age Ahead: Books: Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Her latest salvo, Dark Age Ahead, is, despite the pessimism of many of its conclusions, also positive, less a jeremiad than a firm but helpful reminder of just how much is at stake.
		Dark Age Ahead is witty and damning, but it is also rambling and finally rather vague.
		But if you are at all open to the dark age notion, or think it is feasible (as I have for a number of years),then the book may be a nice aid in helping you to organize your reading and thinking to better build a case for this haunting premise.
	www.amazon.com /Dark-Age-Ahead-Jane-Jacobs/dp/1400062322 (2660 words)

	Dark Age Ahead -- Jane Jacobs' Last Warning
		Her arguments were controversial, and some were doubtlessly unworkable, but she had firm ideas about the danger posed by the breakdown of community within cities torn apart by giant concrete structures and elevated freeways.
		In her last book, Dark Age Ahead, she issued an even more ominous warning -- suggesting that the civilization was now at risk precisely because genuine community was fast disappearing.
		Cities are the forum in which this all happens, the place in which intellectual and economic cross-pollination occurs.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=632 (335 words)

	Book Review: Dark Age Ahead @ Blogcritics.org
		For many, the idea of a "dark age" is restricted to the vision of medieval Europe, fractured and spent in the wake of Rome's collapse, with ancient wisdom and knowledge spiraling out of common parlance and into the hands of a few scribes and monks who managed to keep the spark of civilization alive.
		To Jacobs, the idea of a "dark age" is embodied by the principle "Use it or lose it"; a culture which is disregarded or discarded in such a fashion that a formerly vital culture becomes lost.
		Dark Ages are instructive, precisely because they are extreme examples of cultural collaspe and thus more clear-cut and vivid than gradual decay.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/09/04/164918.php (1336 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dark Age Ahead: Books: Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		While Dark Age Ahead discusses issues of extreme gravity, and Jacobs displays an enviable ability to synthesise the big historical picture with microscopic snapshots of modern life, the book is deeply flawed.
		Jacobs advances the position that a Dark Age is subjective, and that when a society loses touch with its traditions, to the point of rendering these practices a distant memory at best, it can be said to have experienced a Dark Age.
		When Mycenaean civilization reached its end, in part because of the Dorian invasion, the Dark Age that ensued brought with it population decline, a loss of urban centres, a low standard of living, the breakdown of specialized labour, and the disappearance of writing- Mumford’s urban revolution in reverse.
	www.amazon.ca /Dark-Age-Ahead-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0679313109 (4150 words)

	Searching For Dragons
		The book, Dark Age Ahead, is the last book written by Jane Jacobs before her recent passing.
		She’ll be greatly missed… In this, her final book Jane talks about the signs that become visible as a civilization begins heads towards a Dark Age.
		The further south I travel, the more I come across my own signs that a Dark Age may be coming, but at the same time I am also coming across signs of hope, change, and the power of creating new possibilities.
	windpathfilms.com /blog/2006/10/magic-of-family-dark-age-ahead.html (999 words)

	REVIEW: Dark Age Ahead
		Dark Age Ahead starts brightly, in part thanks to a ten-page rehashing of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel.
		You’re thinking, “What does this have to do with sustainable farming?” Just this: the Dark Age ahead is the hubris-laden and technology-based future that comes (or some would argue, has already arrived) after agrarianism.
		In the architecture of Dark Age Ahead, the gaps are too large and irregular, and the resulting structure is unwieldy.
	www.newfarm.org /books/reviews/2005/feb05/dark.shtml (892 words)

	Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs \| Books \| Random House
		Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation, and government; and the self-regulation of the learned professions.
		Drawing on her vast frame of reference–from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to Ireland’s cultural rebirth–Jacobs suggests how the cycles of decay can be arrested and our way of life renewed.
		Invigorating and accessible, Dark Age Ahead is not only the crowning achievement of Jane Jacobs’ career, but one of the most important works of our time.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076703 (238 words)

	The twilight of civilization \| csmonitor.com
		DARK AGE AHEAD By Jane Jacobs Random House 241 pp., $23.95
		In a spirited opening essay called "The Hazard," Jacobs whets the readers' appetites with references to great ages followed by dark ones, but then too abruptly segues into a quick consideration of modern times, and then to an outline of her thesis.
		"Dark Age Ahead" is written in an idiosyncratic style that is pure Jacobsian: a mix of anecdote (often quite personal), analysis, hard facts, and thoughtful conjecture.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0518/p14s01-bogn.html (830 words)

	Meridian Magazine :: Who Was On Watch As the Dark Age Approached?
		We are not immune to the natural laws that govern the formation and dissolution of human communities: When the civilization no longer provides the benefits that lead to success, then, unsurprisingly, the civilization is likely to fail.
		Dark Age Ahead gives us a series of concrete examples of exactly that process.
		And a rational claim can be made for the idea that the 1950s represent the peak from which we have deliberately and unnecessarily fled, heading irrationally downward into darkness.
	www.ldsmag.com /ideas/040826darkage.html (2718 words)

	Ted Leung on the air : Dark Age Ahead
		She's looking for the factors that lead to dark ages -- times of cultural obliteration, with an occasional comment on the possibility that North American culture might be headed for such a time.
		Her thesis is that dark ages ensue "When stabilizing forces become ruined and irrelevant".
		In spite of that, if the goal was to make the case that we are drifting in the direction of a Dark Age, the book falls short.
	www.sauria.com /blog/2004/08/26 (1376 words)

	Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
		Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and most recently, Dark Age Ahead, was 89.
		Her most recent book, Dark Age Ahead is "a grave warning to a society losing its memory," jurists said in awarding her the $15,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2005.
		Dark Age Ahead finds comparisons between our current North American culture and European culture before the fall of the Roman Empire and the subsequent Dark Ages.
	www.biketraffic.org /content.php?id=805_0_16_0_C (433 words)

	Jane Jacobs Jars Our Memories :: Views :: thetyee.ca
		Many Canadians already live in a dark age: the First Nations, struggling to regain scraps of their ancient cultures, and second-generation immigrants who can’t even speak their grandparents’ language.
		Furthermore,what Jacobs is referring to is an intellectual dark age, which is certainly what the Neocons have been trying to impose upon us these past 20 years or so..
		The city states passed and had their day for very good reasons, and even more so now, in an age when advances, and I do think they are advances, are moulding and shaping the emergence of a truly "global community".
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/01/05/JaneJacobsJars (7272 words)

	CreativeClass.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In both her new book, "Dark Age Ahead," and her public talks (for both I had the honor of interviewing her onstage because an eye ailment makes it difficult for Jacobs to read notes), Jacobs sounded what she called "a warning" about her North American culture's faltering future.
		In fact, she considers her 1969 book "The Economy of Cities" to be her best, and the distinction she pioneered in it, between economic "expansion" and "development," to be her -most historically important intellectual contribution.
		The new book, "Dark Age Ahead," is something of a retrospective of Jacobs' theories and travels, anchored in specific examples from her years of observation and activism, first in Manhattan and in her home of the past 36 years, Toronto.
	www.creativeclass.org /gragg_053004.shtml (1731 words)

	Dark Ages Encroaching - Tom Hull
		I just read an interview in the February 2005 issue of the WIRE that Brian Morton did with Anthony Braxton in which Braxton comments that we are headed into a "new Dark Ages" as a global community.
		In a time period in which almost every aspect of humanity is increasingly defined by its potential connection to a given marketplace, the contributions of these artists has never seemed more vital to me.
		The third of Jacobs' five major signs is the loss or rejection of science as a way of trying to understand the world.
	www.tomhull.com /blog/archives/79-Dark-Ages-Encroaching.html (658 words)

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