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This totw was absolutely not intended as a snipe at JZ, despite the current bad blood between him and anews. I actually find a lot of his work (especially the Origins stuff) really stimulating, even where I don't agree with some of his conclusions. I've met JZ, and I've found him to be a smart, and kind individual and really fun to talk to one on one.
That said, I'm not a primitivist, as I see it as prescriptive in nature, and increasingly ideological. My intention in writing this was to explore how AP as a tendency has influenced anarchist thinking and praxis, because it certainly had a large influence on me. For myself, it largely comes down to questioning all the technics that make up civilization, so as to (hopefully) be able to critically look at how and what we reject in our lives, and how we engage with things that are realistically not going away soon, but are sources of domination or social control (language, number, etc).