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	A Primitivist Primer: what is anarcho-primitivism?
		At best, then, anarcho-primitivism is a convenient label used to characterise diverse individuals with a common project: the abolition of all power relations - e.g., structures of control, coercion, domination, and exploitation - and the creation of a form of community that excludes all such relations.
		In 1986, the circle around the Detroit paper Fifth Estate indicated that they were engaged in developing a 'critical analysis of the technological structure of western civilization[,] combined with a reappraisal of the indigenous world and the character of primitive and original communities.
		In this sense we are primitivists...' The Fifth Estate group sought to complement a critique of civilization as a project of control with a reappraisal of the primitive, which they regarded as a source of renewal and anti-authoritarian inspiration.
	www.eco-action.org /dt/primer.html (3039 words)

	Making it explicit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A primitivist or non-reductive theory of content is one that makes use of semantic vocabulary in its ultimate specification of what it is for an item to be an instance of some semantic kind, for example, in its account of what it is for an item to have a propositional content.
		Primitivist inferentialism satisfies methodological pragmatism’s second component by holding that from its propositional content, together with certain non-semantic facts, the normative significance of the use of an expression may be derived.
		The name “primitivist inferentialism” is intended to mark that the theory it labels is a non-reductive counterpart to Brandom’s reductive inferentialism.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/phil/faculty/dowell/BBtalk.htm (7987 words)

	Civilisation, Primitivism and anarchism \| Anarchist news dot org
		Most primitivists evade the question of what level of technology they wish to return to by hiding behind the claim that they are not arguing for a return to anything, on the contrary they want to go forward.
		Primitivists are not the only ones to use the rhetoric of catastrophe to panic people into accepting their political proposals.
		The primitivist critique (and that of anti-civilization generally) of certain schools of thought in anarchism is not necessarily that "liberty" and "mass society" are irreconcilable, except in broadening "liberty" to mean the right for all life to experience the integrity and continuity of their ecosystem.
	anarchistnews.org /?q=node/200 (7029 words)

	John Zerzan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As many other primitivist writers, he too thinks that, in a global mass society such as ours, mass communication and long distance travel technologies are necessary (or at the very least, useful) for propagating new ideas to such an extent that they might impose change in society.
		Among the speculations for the reason of this, it is said by some that industrialized, agricultural civilization has desecrated the wilderness to such an extent that no suitable wilderness areas can be found to reside in, or that what little remains has become the residence of dangerous fugitives from justice.
		Still, such criticims could rightly be considered ad hominems, in that they attack the Zerzan and other primitivists themselves and not the positions of primitivism in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Zerzan (2019 words)

	Civilization and its latest discontents
		Although primitivists see capital as a social relation, they seem to have lost the sense that it is a process of class struggle, not just an imposition by a powerful oppressor.
		Primitives very likely were not conscious of their way of life as a possibility or choice in the way the modern primitivist is, and therefore would not have valued it in the same way that we might, and may not necessarily have resisted the development of the productive forces.
		Primitivists' conception of the essential ontological opposition as being between history (civilization) and an abstract human nature, instead of between two historically-contingent sets of interests (capital versus the proletariat), means that their critique tends to be merely a moral one.
	www.geocities.com /aufheben2/auf_4_perlman.html (5751 words)

	Insurgent Desire - Anarchist Epistemology
		A Primitivist Primer by John Moore calls anarcho-primitivism a shorthand term for a radical current that critiques the totality of civilization from an anarchist perspective, yet they mostly place themselves firmly within Western scientific discourse with their reliance on anthropological data.
		Indeed, the entire primitivist project is saddled with the unfortunate onus of a purist theory that is riddled with impurities it does not even seek to address.
		Primitivists have hitched their wagon to a star, and it would behoove them to look at the trajectory of that star if they want to see where they are headed.
	www.insurgentdesire.org.uk /anarchistepistemology.htm (1796 words)

	Question Everything
		I'm not a primitivist, but there are some significant flaws in Civilisation, Primitivism and anarchism by Andrew Flood.
		Second, every primitivist I've met who believes population reduction is necessary (this is not universal among primitivists, especially the pro-agriculture type) believes it should be done gradually over a long multi-generational timespan as the result of lower birthrates.
		Primitivist theory, however, is more helpful in thinking about technology because it's based on a social analysis while most technophilia is based on platitudes.
	question-everything.mahost.org /blogarchives/2005_01_01_blogarchive.html (1896 words)

	circlealpha dot comm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The development of contemporary primitivist theories (and especially anarcho-primitivism) might thus seem to be an easy, logical and inevitable step from these foundations, although this would be to overlook other alternatives equally rooted in resistance culture.
		Primitivist strands There are several strands of development which seem to have more or less coalesced to form the current primitivist mélange of theories and practices, at least within North America (I'm not as familiar with British primitivism).
		Unfortunately, for most primitivists an idealized, hypostatized vision of primal societies tends to irresistibly displace the essential centrality of critical self-theory, whatever their occasional protestations to the contrary.
	www.circlealpha.com /library/primitivism1.html (3474 words)

	IRRATIONALISM-STEVE BOOTH AGAINST "THE MACHINE" from Black Flag Mag 215
		The problem for contemporary primitivists is not whether such societies were "better" than our own, but how their legacy can be incorporated in a politics of the here and now.
		With no rational agent for primitivist change, GA are left with the Utopian babble of "One day soon, very soon, the whole system will perish in flames, and where will your designer clothes and Mercedes 450SLs be then?" and the Aum and the Oklahoma fascists as vehicles for "the absolute physical destruction of the machine".
		It is our contention that the nature of the primitivist project is such that the "irrationalisms" of Steve Booth are, within the context of GA's project, perfectly rational; that the GA project results in, faced with the age old choice of socialism or barbarism, the election of barbarism as the chosen alternative.
	www.stewarthomesociety.org /ga/bf.htm (1631 words)

	from the interview >> by adrienne eisen >> *spark-online.com >> version 16.0, january 2001
		Though the term 'primitivist artist' is sometimes automatically associated with 'outsider artist,' the two are distinct categories that only partially intersect, in an infinitely diverse set of wider permutations and possibilities.
		Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee were primitivist in orientation for much of their careers, emulating 'primitive' tribal art (post-Gauguin in the South Seas) and attempting to create spontaneously like children.
		Jean Dubuffet, a primitivist artist himself and an intellectually-sophisticated outsider, coined the term Art Brut around 1945 to encapsulate the art of genuine outsiders and untrained artists.
	www.spark-online.com /january01/miscing/podstolski.html (1285 words)

	A Primitivist Primer by John Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One group of individuals, known as Primitivists, have argued that it was technology, not the organization of technology, that was responsible for the ills of Capitalism.
		Your hands are used to mold the natural world around you, your legs are used to transport the rest of your body, and your arms are used in carrying, self-defense, and throwing.
		Food that was grown may not have come from agribusiness, but it did come from fields that were given fertilizer and they were harvested with advanced tools that came from flsmiths.
	www.punkerslut.com /color/primitivistx.html (3127 words)

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		In this chronology, the relation between original and copy seems finally replaced by a series of simulations, like so many smutty postcards carried between metropolitan centre and colonial margin, in which all productions are restagings, marked by a sense of their belatedness and inauthenticity.
		We might pause to consider that Gauguin's painting records what Foster would call "primitivist ambivalence" with all the efficiency of a stereoscope--it is technically able to present two images as one.34 Manao Tupapau conflates the native and the sodomitically perverse, it stages an interference between European regression and indigenous truth in an inescapably formalist register.
		If, in its representation of a primitivist scopic field, it revises the space of observation and structures a gaze that invades the seamlessness of looking, if it unsettles vision--and hermeneutics--with hesitations and anxieties, with ambivalent doublings, it also suggests the impossibility of ever falling outside that scene.
	www.genders.org /g28/g28_gauguin.txt (7321 words)

	primitivist- Sepola Search 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Primitivist and post-left 'anarchism' It has been said that anarchism has a broad back and its certainly true that many odd ideologies from free market capitalism through to fascism have tried to climb up there at one time or another.
		This primitivist critique of anarchism is based around the claim to have...
		Moore was a ruralist, traditionalist, primitivist and surrealist champion of man's heroism...
	www.sepola.com /primitivist.html (1248 words)

	Body
		As primitivists, we look to Green Anarchist's origins to understand what Green Anarchist is. As anti-ideologues, we know that quoting others as to what Green Anarchist was in no way proves they knew what was best for Green Anarchist then, now or in future.
		In rejecting 'Progress' in favour of the small, self-sufficient communities of the Stone Age as his model of the future, Hunt was a primitivist, whether he chose to call himself that or not (the term didn't even exist as such in the mid-1970s).
		Far from arguing for social inclusion--including into a phoney 'national' community--the new editors argued that, having nothing to lose, the marginalised were in the best position to survive without Civilisation and had most to gain by trashing the highly specialised (and therefore potentially vulnerable) repressive infrastructure that keeps us all in line.
	website.lineone.net /~grandlaf/PRIMITIVISM.htm (1338 words)

	Zhuangzi
		This understanding is made explicit by the Primitivists; indeed, the inherent spontaneous activity of the individual becomes one of the cornerstones of their unique concept of human nature.
		In contrast to the Yangists, the Primitivists maintain that the natural tendency of the senses is not merely to desire sense-objects, but, rather, to perceive them clearly.
		Throughout their writings the Primitivists harken back to an earlier Utopian age when people lived in selfless harmony with one another and with all things in the world and when the Way and Inner Power were fully realized.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/zhuangzi (8176 words)

	artnet.com Magazine News
		The overall effect is "dramatic and mysterious," as the museum says, though that has nothing in particular to do with Brazilian art.
		(As for the silly primitivist notion of a "union of body and soul" -- well, this is show biz, after all.)
		Installed in the center of the space is the monumental 44-foot-tall, carved and gilded Baroque altarpiece, an impressive sight despite being only partly completed by the time of the exhibition opening.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/news/artnetnews/artnetnews10-23-01.asp (308 words)

	Intellectual Impoverishment--A Response to Ken Knabb's "The Poverty of Primitivism" by John Filiss
		Black, who is not a primitivist, gave attention to insights from both a primitivist and high-tech perspective in seeing through the possibility of his utopian goals.
		The ludicrous pretension that “primitivist thought” is “deepening the critique” masks the fact that primitivism has actually retreated from serious social critique, substituting an exotic idyll for any strategical analysis of present possibilities.
		What is funnier is your claim that primitivists 'in most cases know nothing about capitalism,' considering that your understanding of economics is in line with your grasp of technology, anthropology, and health.
	www.primitivism.com /impoverishment.htm (11412 words)

	XSilent - Moore, Primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this sense we are primitivists...' The Fifth Estate group sought to complement a critique of civilization as a project of control with a reappraisal of the primitive, which they regarded as a source of renewal and anti-authoritarian inspiration.
		Politics, 'the art and science of government,' is not part of the primitivist project; only a politics of desire, pleasure, mutuality and radical freedom.
		The question of what medicine might consist of in an anarcho- primitivist future depends, as in the Fifth Estate comment on technology above, on what is possible and what people desire, without compromising the lifeways of free individuals in ecologically-centred free communities.
	www3.telus.net /arktos/xsilent/primer.html (3038 words)

	Lorenzo Komboa Ervin: Refusing The "Syndicalist v. Primitivist" Debate
		Hell, that's no different than what the Bolsheviks did in Russia, tried to make the capitalist economy/western civilization serve the people in a new "workers state." I do know that we want to do away with a society based on racial slavery, economic exploitation, political domination and all forms of social oppression.
		It will definitely be different from previous versions, but don't think it will be a primitivist treatise, but you think about it for yourself.
		A world war is raging, there is an international capitalist economic crisis, millions are imprisoned, starving or being murdered by governments, and all you have time to do is wonder about such nonsense.
	lemming.mahost.org /abr/refusing.htm (891 words)

	Body
		For anarcho primitivists, civilization is the over arching context within which the multiplicity of power relations develop.
		Some basic power relations are present in primitive societies - and this is one reason why anarcho primitivists do not seek to replicate these societies - but it is in civilization that power relations become pervasive and entrenched in practically all aspects of human life and human relations with the biosphere.
		Anarcho primitivists are thus opposed to technology, but there is some debate over how central technology is to domination in civilization.
	website.lineone.net /~grandlaf/Priprima.htm (3032 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Tropical Rear Window: Gauguin's Manao Tupapau and Primitivist Ambivalence
		There is, in short, a darker side to primitivist desire, one implicated in fantasies of imaginary knowledge, power and rape; and these fantasies, moreover, are sometimes underpinned by real power, by real rape.
		In a way [it was a] longing to rape," we are on the border between the acceptable myth of the primitivist artist as sexual outlaw, and the relations of violence and domination that provide its historic and its psychic armature.
		We could say that Gauguin's career was often reduced to the serial indignity of the repeated restart, but the multiple arrivals and departures required by the primitivist agenda are such that it becomes hard to keep relations of priority and precedence stable.
	www.genders.org /g28/g28_gauguin.html (8963 words)

	New Gaia - (Lambda Aurigae IV)
		New Gaia (or simply Gaia, as the world was later known as) was colonised by the Green Alliance, a first Federation environmentalist movement of mostly rianth and nearbaseline race, disillusioned with the decline of ecological standards and the rise of corporate influence that were emerging in the early 1200s.
		New Gaia remains strongly polarised between the luddite primitivist society under the rulership of the Mothers, and the techno-ecologists, both of whom claim to represent the true ecological ideal of the Pioneers and of the great Ecologists of the past.
		The air is relatively thin (the primitivist ideology has meant no optimising or terraforming), and humans often feel the need to rest.
	www.orionsarm.com /worlds/New_Gaia.html (4266 words)

	Powelton Village - Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Members of MOVE live by a bizarre medley of philosophies that translates to the outside world as foul-smelling, unsanitary and violent.
		Difficult to label, they have been described variously as a radical primitivist or back-to-nature sect and as armed anarchists and revolutionaries.
		The little group was founded in 1972 by handyman Vincent Leaphart, a fl third-grade dropout, and Donald Glassey, a white college teacher with a master's degree in social work.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/profiles/move_1.html (767 words)

	Diary for badvogato
		The Primitivist wrtoe after the destruction of the state of Ch'i in 221 B.C. which completed the Ch'in reunification, and the time of disunion in which he wrties can only be the brief interregnum of 209 -202B.C. between the fall of the Ch'in dynasty and the final vitory of the Han.
		The Primitivist's great fear is that the Legalist tyranny of Ch'in has gone only to be replaced by the moralistic tyranny of Confucians or Mohists.
		The Primitivist's furious attacks on sagehood, wisdom and knowledge may seem to make him an exception to our generalisation that even Taoists value not the spontaneous as such, but the reaction with a clear vision of the object.
	www.advogato.org /person/badvogato/diary.html?start=151 (1345 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economy of Ancient Greece
		Neither primitivists nor modernists could conceive of the existence of extensive trade and the use of money unless the ancient Greek economy was organized according to market principles.
		Traditional ancient historians who relied on philology and archaeology tended to side with the modernist interpretation, whereas historians who employed new methods drawn from sociology and anthropology tended to hold to the primitivist view.
		For example, Michael Rostovtzeff assembled a wealth of archaeological data to argue that the scale of the ancient Greek economy in the Hellenistic period was so great that it could not be considered primitive.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=engen.greece (13030 words)

	AAS 2002 \| Hagop Sarkissian: Utopia and Violence in the Primitivist Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The conventional pairing of the Laozi and the Primitivist documents from the Zhuangzi at first seems reasonable.
		Not only is the Primitivist uninterested in a mystical Dao or cosmological speculation, he has also lost faith in remedying the problems of society through reformation of proper rulership.
		His move towards radicalism itself is a censure against the Laozi: the fear underlying that text has turned into rancour, while its aphoristic appeals to moderate desires and to scorn luxurious objects have been replaced with ideological calls for the destruction of the socio-cultural order and the elimination of noxious intellectuals.
	www.umass.edu /wsp/conferences/aas/2002/jwangdz/utopia.html (270 words)

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