Bunker: Building for the End Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Bradley Garrett (Author), Adam Sims (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere.

In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus.

The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.

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10 hours and 29 minutes
Author

Bradley Garrett
Narrator

Adam Sims
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4 August 2020
Language

English
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Penguin Audio
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B086DX95MQ
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	10 hours and 29 minutes
Author	Bradley Garrett
Narrator	Adam Sims
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Audible.com.au Release Date	04 August 2020
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B086DX95MQ
Best Sellers Rank	48,109 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 58 in Future Studies 107 in Architectural History 319 in Political Philosophy (Books)

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Robert J. Morris

Fascinating and relevant

Reviewed in Australia on 14 August 2020

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Bunker is a fascinating read; well-researched, thought-provoking and relevant. I’ve never felt so drawn to the idea of self-sufficiency.

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Cameo Roll

Exhaustive Study

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2020

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An exhaustive (not exhausting!) study of bunkers and bunker building for survival. Not of course the bunkers of World War II but bunkers specifically intended to be used to survive an apocalypse such as Nuclear War, Pandemic etc.
Extremely readable - I read through it in about 5 days - which is a bit of a record for the adult me! Enjoyable and well constructed and extraordinarily well researched. You get the feeling that Bradley has become a sort of junior "prepper" by the end of it!

Just one bone I have to pick and therefore just the one criticism - at page 18 in the Introduction he states that "All preppers....were driven by.....a desire to create secretive, defensive and dread resistant spaces that are ultimately dread-resistant". In other words he maintains that all preppers are seeking a refuge like a bunker. In fact this is not true. Many preppers (including myself) have no desire whatsoever to be holed up in a bunker. We would rather be out and about in the country, isolating from danger and from potentially infected persons (PIPS).

In the event of a Nuclear War and a blanket of radiation - then we are SNAFU (strangely not referred to in the Acronym Glossary!)

Good luck with the book, Bradley - it deserves a wide readership - even if you didn't refer to my own book - Pandemic Survival Preppers Mash-up.

Cheers and when SHTF have a long cold beer!

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Mark Curtis

looking forward to this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 August 2020

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Havent read this yet, but Bradley wrote such an intensly interesting book in 'Explore Everything' , i know I will be taken to the four corners of the planet on an adventure deep into the chasms of our minds

John

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2020

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Great book. Very interesting

Rex Mundi

Too much conspiracy theory from someone who disdains conspiracy theories.

Reviewed in the United States on 7 September 2020

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I enjoyed his description of the various doomsday/prepper bunkers and communities around the world. I also appreciated him shedding light on the various survival compounds and construction entities such as Vivos and Hardened Structures. What I really got tired of was the low key Trump bashing and the regurgitation of the debunked Russian Collusion conspiracy. Pick it up at the library, don't waste your money.

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Ron

Exquisite analysis of a poorly understood modern phenomenon

Reviewed in the United States on 9 August 2020

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Part deconstruction, part existential philosophy, part exploration, part journalism, all deftly woven into a cohesive analysis and entertaining cultural explorative narrative, Garrett takes you inside the prepper world and explores the genre inside and out.

He explores the sociological and philosophical backdrops of the prepping phenomenon, framing the narrative using references to Kierkegaard, Foucault, and others. The exploration reveals the interconnectedness of prepping with government and state power (and the failures there of).

I think he misses a great opportunity to explore the underlying neo feudalist backdrop against which this prepper movement exists in western countries, i.e. hyper capitalism, neo liberalism, statism, etc. and their effects on society, vis a vis the underlying wealth inequality and societal imbalances, the widespread winner take all dog eat dog cultural landscape, which leaves in it's wake an increase in societal narcissistic (and psychopathic) epidemics. These underlying problems have been explicitly delineated by Richard Wolff, Anand Giridharadas, Piketty, Twenge and Campbell, and Zizek. That is to say the many self destructive and innate incongruities of capitalism which have been propagandized away as Marxist rhetoric, and the failure of the masses to see behind the capitalist propaganda and ideology.

Against such dire political and economic landscapes, is it any wonder that entire segments of western society become despondent and seek real community and connection with other like-minded folks? Is it any surprise that those same communities sometimes seek to make the state irrelevant through self sufficiency, and why the state reacts violently against these movements?

Neverthess the book is unique and distinct in every regard, presenting the subject in a compelling way, with clear and concise writing, the author's prose and breadth is truly appreciated.

Definitely unique, it earns a spot as both a reference, and a compelling cultural analysis, up there at the top of my collection.

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