Anarcho-primitivism

ANARCHY RADIO 01-02-2024

Klee Benally RIP. A more nuanced account? of trans/TERF. Sports in shambles, one more sign of collapsing civ. More mainstream notice of anti-domestication (e.g. Never Alone author on NPR Jan. 1) Huge drop in time spent with friends. Children killing children. 42.9% rise in obesity, almost 10% morbidly obese. Failure of "cool streets." Firebomb's swan song, Action news, one call.

ANARCHY RADIO 12-26-2023

Gaza bludgeoned and starved, no functioning hospitals. Crazed global weather. Online slander. From microplastics to nanoplastics. Deaths due to smartphones. Homelessness, "Deaths from despair" thesis. All of us Strangers. JVL Rewilding book now available. Ellul discussion. "How Else Is It Possible" poem. Action briefs. One call.

Uncivilized Podcast 36 with Bjørn Olson

From YouTube (Spotify and other services in ~month!)

Today, Artxmis is joined by Bjørn Olson, a self-described neoprimitivist. Bjørn discusses his videography project, his experience with the paleo-diet / ancestral diet, a critique of veganism, and more!

Thumbnail is by Bjørn Olson.

Plant Anarchy

Plant Anarchy

New book available now. A fuller, much expanded treatment of the iteration/repetition/deixis framework that Sascha Engel first introduced in his Breaking The Alphabet, expanding it to analyses of - and techniques against - institutionalized domestication in everyday life, the state, machinery and computation (including of the "AI" variety).

Anarchy Radio 07-19-2022

R.A.t.M. fan holds a copy of "Breaking the Alphabet" by Sascha Engel. (c. 2022, colorized)

World is burning, civilization dying. Bizarre disease eruptions. 988 suicide line - texting as human life-line?? New anarchist books, music, actions. Conversation with James Van Lanen on CHAGS, food autonomy in Italy. (two calls)

Case Revisited - Kaczynski's Lingering Influence in 2021

Kelley and I discuss the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and his life. We discuss how his anti-technology beliefs and extreme outlook resonate with events and radical, anti-government movements in this current day and age. And finally we explore what lessons can be learned by looking at this case in hindsight.

See the full video and transcript below. I edited the text slightly for clarity’s sake, just to remove filler words and put anything I forgot to say in.

Fifth Estate by request on Immediatism podcast

Fifth Estate by request on Immediatism podcast

Here are five episodes of articles from Fifth Estate, by listener request. Immediatism intends to feature still-relevant articles from back-issues of both AJODA and Fifth Estate as regular programming from now on, right along with the books from Little Black Cart and other publishers/distros, and -- of course!-- listener requests.

An (incomplete) Affirmation of My Relationship With Primitivist Thought

from Eco-Revolt by Julian Langer

My relationship with the school of thought that is primitivism is very split between intense affirmation and intense differentiation. And that is essentially all I wish to communicate through this piece.

Topic of the Week: Anarcho-primitivism

"Not long ago, Primitivism was a significant strand of North American Anarchy. During the period of the WTO protests… and through the Green Scare repression of environmentalists, John Zerzan's ideas about the dangers of technology were undeniably important to many on the left."
-Towards an Anthropology as Science Fiction
Dominique Ganawaabi, Black Seed #7

AnPrim On Fire: Human Supremacy Within Anarcho-Primitivist Narrative

From Vegan Primitivist

Within anarcho-primitivism plays an ongoing dialectic pinpointing origins of the problem of civilization. Impugning only capitalism or the industrial age is seen as much too timid. From the left, radical environmental activist leader and author Derrick Jensen notably impugns the point people exceed their capacity for self-sufficiency, the dawn of cities. In Ishmael and The Story of B novelist and civilization critic Daniel Quinn renders agriculture as human’s dichotomizing choice to be Givers or Takers. Couple cities with agriculture and you’ve hit the anprim sweet spot.

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