The Presence of the Absence (private library copy)

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This book takes the position that we currently occupy a collective field of enormous productivity, which is negatively impacting our earthly ecosystems at scale. 

The author envisages a near future, when we have lost interest, not only in consumerism but in producing things as we do in the current paradigm.

This is an open invitation to join the author in applying this vision, to the future of our designed and built world in newly imagined ways. 

 “The deep thinking, layered with lived experience and lots of personal anecdotes, gives this book a resonance that make it an inspirational read for any creative practitioner wondering about their place in the current environmental and cultural climate.

journalist and author, Heidi Dokulil

publishing date: October 2025

ISBN - 978-0-646-72654-0 

In keeping with the ideas in the book, this First Edition is only available through Public Libraries. Library copies are available via the Library's regular distribution – supplied by Books at Manic distribution in Melbourne

A copy can be requested at your local library by giving the name, author and isbn.

There are currently a limited number of copies available in the first edition for a small number of readers to purchase (other than the readers the author has spoken to about being a reader). These copies are intended to be purchased, read and passed on to someone who you think might read it also, and they are to pass it on etc. Of course you can oversee your private library copy however you see fit

Bookstores can make an enquiry on the bookstore-library model for the book at the email below

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