Questioning Technology: Tool, Toy or Tyrant

Politics & Social Sciences

Zerzan, John

Social Sciences

New Society Pub

Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology

Carnes, Alice

Left Bank Books

Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization

Literature & Fiction

Feral House

Elements Of Refusal

A new hardcover edition of Zerzan's first collection of essays, exploring alienation, and the resistance it has engendered.

Elements of Refusal

Philosophy

Questioning technology: tool, toy or tyrant?

New Society Publishers

The infamous eco-anarchist John Zerzan whose books have resulted in recent interviews by Vice and Believer magazines, checks in with further provocative articles about the chaotic results of civilization and technology.
Says novelist Lang Gore in his introduction:
"The present collection of essays continues the overarching thrust of John's scholarship, unveiling the post-apocalyptic nature of our times by noting the apocalypse was yesterday, several thousand years ago, to be precise, and that nothing produced by civilization can ever redeem the systematic attempt it has undertaken these (very) few millennia to destroy or alienate any human connection with the earth.
"In fact, when civilized Europeans imposed themselves everywhere on Earth, they created a terminal crisis for themselves by their very contact with indigenous societies. Suddenly, those with eyes to see and ears to hear could recognize that patriarchy, property and authority, and certainly slavery, were neither necessary nor desirable, let alone determined by 'human nature.'"

Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization

The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought, and the concept of time.
This book includes sixteen essays ranging from the beginning of civilization to today’s general crisis. Zerzan provides a critical perspective about civilization.
A People’s History of Civilization includes chapters about: Patriarchy The City and its Inmates War Enters the Picture The Bronze Age The Axial Age The Crisis of Late Antiquity Revolt and Heresy Modernity Takes Charge Who Killed Ned Ludd Cultural Luddism Industrialism and Resistance Decadence WWI Civilization’s Pathological Endgame
In recent years, John Zerzan, co-editor of Black and Green Review, has successfully toured Europe to speak from his primitivist perspective regarding contemporary civilization. Zerzan calls Eugene, Oregon home.

A People's History of Civilization

History

World

These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilisational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls for radically new thinking if there is to be any hope of renewal. Social existence, now strangely isolated, is beset by mass shootings, rising suicide rates, slipping longevity, loneliness, anxiety, and the maddening stream of lies and concocted politics. Zerzan trains his passionate focus on several fields of discourse: anthropology, history, philosophy, technology, psychology, and the spiritual. Points of light that become a kaleidoscope refracting new insights and contributing an overall picture of late civilisation.

When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics

A new edition of Zerzan's first collection of essays, exploring alienation, and the resistance it has engendered.

Essays & Correspondence

Columbia Alternative Library

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