I dream of free actors who live without fear. I imagine words that speak beyond comprehension. I imagine the same goals that I have expressed lived by people who care for one another, who laugh at the empty sociability of our era, who are the anarchy unleashed unto the world. I imagine connections to the world that I am not capable of. This impossible set of conditions and potentials is why a nihilist animism appeals to me at all. It names capabilities I don’t have in a world I can’t imagine living in. That’s all one can ask of oneself.
Category: anti-civilization
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
Ishi and The War Against Civilization by Chaht-Ima
Utilizing such pretexts as “progress,” “economic development,” and
“globalization,” civilization scours the earth like an all-devouring
conflagration-devastating forests, exterminating untold species,
extinguishing native cultures, covering and distorting the lands that
have fallen to its’ flames with the varnish of industrialism, and degrading the organic life that still survives to mere. commodity. To fuel this rage for extermination, the whole weight of technology has
been pressed into service and is converting the planet into one gigantic Beijing interspersed with agriculture. Doomsday is already a present actuality and, for the most part, docility reigns supreme as
the wretched sheeple deliriously busy themselves with the value of
stocks and bonds, attach themselves to the feverish diversions offered
by urban life and drown in a flood of banal information.
This pamphlet is about resistance to the outwardly murderous and
inwardly suicidal virus of civilization and provides readers with
something they can grab and swing on while the ground beneath
them crumbles. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in
Individualists Tending Toward The Wild (ITS) and Wild Reaction.
Primitive Toothcare by Rowan Walking Wolf
Psychotic? So They Thought!: Tirades Of The Barbarian
Anti-civ poetry zine put together by The Barbarian.
An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer by Simon the Simpler
Why Civilization?
A primer on anti-civilization anarchism.
Indwiloq: A Green Anarchist Creation Myth and Fable by Rowan Tree Walking Wolf
For my Mother,
for giving me a childhood rich in stories
And for those who keep the tradition of storytelling alive
Radical Mycology: An SLF Primer
Take What You Need & Compost The Rest: An Introduction to Post-Civilized Theory by Margaret Killjoy
We live, as much as we can, as though civilization were a blight that is behind us already. And this, more than any writing, will be our propaganda. Because yes, you can live this way. And yes, it is better. A meal means so much more when you grow or gather it yourself, and friends are so much closer when they’re treated as equals. Feral in a tailcoat, that’s us. When we look at the world around us, we take what we need and compost the rest.