Against civilization: readings and reflections

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.