Here's an interview about the book... and the subsequent Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism [ManTowNHuman] on Little Atoms with Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy.
http://www.littleatoms.com/sounds/austinwilliams.mp3
"Enemies of Progress" has been set up to argue for development without prefixes. One of the most important tasks today, is to undermine the fear-generating perception that human agency, modernity, growth, materialism, want, development, experimentation, technology, infrastructure, political debate and critical engagement - in a word, progress, is a problem.