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ChaosAnarchy wrote

so what primitivist anarchist writers do I need to look out for ? Is https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/enrico-manicardi-free-from-civilization a great start to an-prim?

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subrosa wrote

Probably depends on what you're trying to get out of it.

Manicardi is basically Italian Zerzan. My intro were Green Anarchy issues, which I still find a bit more stimulating than the books they wrote. Featuring multiple voices, reports on anti-tech actions, reviews of new publications — it gives you a better idea of how primitivism functioned as a conversation/milieu within anarchism.

The Zerzan/Tucker/Manicardi type approach rings a bit hollow after a while, with its tendency to list the bad (THE TOTALITY: civilization, domestication, industrialization, progress, mass-society, technology, globalization, alienation, symbolic thought, ideology, the left, postmodernism, nihilism,...) only to once more lament the loss of good (nature, wildness, community, a true authentic full and human life). And a tendency to rely on citations and quotes to move an argument forward.

So maybe balance it out with the poets. Jesús Sepúlveda (The Garden of Peculiarities), Fredy Perlman (Against His-story, Against Leviathan), John Moore (Lived Poetry).

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