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Against civilization: readings and reflections
Publisher
Feral House
Publication Date
c2005
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English
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From the Book - Enl. ed.
Foreword / Chellis Glendinning
Introduction / John Zerzan
Preface / Kevin Tucker
Sect. I. Outside civilization
golden feast / Roy Walker
noble savage : a study in romantic naturalism / Hoxie Neale Fairchild
Discourse on the origins of inequality / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Excursions" / Henry David Thoreau
Against his-story, against Leviathan! / Fredy Perlman
Primitive man and his food / Arnold DeVries
"The original affluent society" / Marshall Sahlins
"Birds combat civilization" / Lynn Clive
"Wildflowers : a bouquet of theses" / John Landau
Minima moralia : reflections from damaged life / Theodor Adorno
Our kind / Marvin Harris
Spokane museum / Ramona Wilson
Sect. II. coming of civilization
earth as modified by human action / George P. Marsh
Beyond geography : the Western spirit against the wilderness / Frederick Turner
invasion within : the contest of cultures in colonial North America / James Axtell
Elements of refusal / John Zerzan
Nature and madness / Paul Shepard
Health and the rise of civilization / Mark Nathan Cohen
search for society / Robin Fox
My name is Chellis and I'm in recovery from Western civilization / Chellis Glendinning
Society against the state / Pierre Clastres
land of the naked people / Madhusree Mukerjee
Reading and writing / Robert Wolff
Sect. III. nature of civilization
On the aesthetic education of man / Friedrich Schiller
Theory of four movements and general destinies / Charles Fourier
Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud
"Civilization and the primitive" / John Landau
Eclipse of reason / Max Horkheimer
Dawn and decline / Max Horkheimer
"Was civilization a mistake?" / Richard Heinberg
Here : a small history of a mining town in the American Southwest : Warren/Bisbee Az / Barbara Mor
Toward a history of needs / Ivan Illich
Modernity and the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman
"Civilization is like a jetliner" / T. Fulano
"Industrial society and its future" / Unabomber
old way and civilization / Tamarack Song
Women/wilderness / Ursula K. LeGuin
Sect. IV. pathology of civilization
Conventional lies, or our civilization / Max Nordau
final empire : the collapse of civilization and the seed of the future / William H. Koetke
collapse of complex societies / Joseph A. Tainter
Where the wasteland ends : politics and transcendence in postindustrial society / Theodore Roszak
parable of the tribes : the problem of power in social evolution / Andrew Bard Schmookler
Critique of cynical reason / Peter Sloterdijk
seeds of time / Fredric Jameson
"The medium is the medium" / Labor of Ludd
"How nice to be civilized!" / Des Refractaires
"Civilization in bulk" / David Watson
Memories and visions of paradise / Richard Heinberg
"They're always telling me I'm too angry" / Chrystos
Man and technics : a contribution to a philosophy of life / Oswald Spengler
In search of noble ancestors / John Mohawk
Sect. V. resistance to civilization
Avoiding social and ecological disaster : the politics of world transformation / Rudolf Bahro
Future primitive / John Zerzan
News from nowhere / William Morris
"Feral revolution" / Feral Faun
"Don't eat your revolution! : make it!" / Anonymous
"The machine in our heads" / Glenn Parton
"Revolt of the bats" / Alon K. Raab
Rebels against the future : lessons from the Luddites / Kirkpatrick Sale
"Actions speak louder than words" / Derrick Jensen
"We have to dismantle all this" / Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous
Talking to the owls and butterflies / John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Anarcho-futurist manifesto / Group of Anarcho-Futurists
Woman and nature : the roaring inside her / Susan Griffin
"Why civilization?" / Communique #23 from Disorderly Conduct #6.
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9780922915989
9781932595703
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