Author Archives: enkidu

In 1997 my aunt and her partner were driving in their car a few miles from their home, when an oncoming driver hit them head on. My aunt sustained some moderate injuries, but her partner of nearly thirty years died … Continue reading →

“We all know when we wake up that this is all we get.” — YACHT, “Utopia” “Utopia” itself describes a tension. It is the good-place, but it is no-place. The term is a literary pun that has come to stand … Continue reading →

The first time i saw a URL was on a TV spot. I was transfixed by the strange string of characters. They were normal letters and punctuation, but their form was not that of “real” words – they had a … Continue reading →

Over the next few months i will be shifting the focus of this site. Since i started it i intended it as a source of information about practical actions anarchists can take to make our world at least a little … Continue reading →

The recent Kaczynski-style attacks aimed at Mexican nano-technology researchers has lead to another wave of anti-primitivist rhetoric on the internet. Condemning targeted bombings of scientists is one thing, but insulting a wide range of people holding techno-skeptical views is quite … Continue reading →

Leadership is a concept that anarchists shy away from, and rightly so. Most phenomena that fall under the term run counter to our principles. From the Left, no less than from the Right, leaders (usually self-appointed) have risen up to … Continue reading →

Well, my time as a member of the extremely exclusive Deep Green Resistance web community has come to an end. I’ve been officially banned from their forum. It was a fun run while it lasted. I gleaned a lot of … Continue reading →

Within the greater anti-civilization milieu, two major factions have been vocally distinguishing their approaches from one another: the anarcho-primitivists and the Deep Green Resistance movement. Occasionally this effort towards differentiation has been based on honest disagreement about theory and practice. … Continue reading →

I was surprised recently to discover that more than a few feminist theorists have been vociferously opposed to transsexuality. This first came to my attention regarding Lierre Keith’s advocacy of such an opinion. Keith is best known in anarchist circles … Continue reading →

Ants can be a bothersome pest for a number of reasons. Many species of ants feed upon seeds, and are therefore uninvited guests in gardens as well as picnics. In many locations the presence of introduced fire ants is not … Continue reading →

The scene: December 19, 2008, a Bureau of Land Management auction of drilling permissions in Salt Lake City, Utah. Representatives of numerous earth-rape companies crowd the hall as various tracts of land, claimed to be owned by the United States … Continue reading →

I created this collage for a high school art class assignment, years before I discovered the formal critiques of civilization. In retrospect, I suppose I had a sort of pre-rational grasp of the problem of civilization, especially as it has … Continue reading →

When i was a teenager i identified as a democratic socialist. I was decidedly anti-capitalist in outlook, and harbored suspicions of the functioning of the state, but was not yet critical of the state itself. My “socialism” was not really … Continue reading →

Think of the metaphor of the Earth a a mother, and the slogan, “Love your mother.” What does this mean? It might simply acknowledge that humans are created from matter that comes from the Earth. But so are Oldsmobiles, and … Continue reading →

Ecological Anarchy at the Brink of the Future For far too long the anti-authoritarian ecology movement has been limited to two snobbishly opposed groups: so called Green Anarchy, influenced by Deep Ecology and Zerzan primitivism, and Social Ecology, influenced by … Continue reading →

Much of French theory flies right over my head. I find the Situationists insightful, the post-structuralists interesting and Sartre and Beauvoir relevant, but when I read Tiqqun and the Invisible Committee I pass page after page without absorbing any information. … Continue reading →

Two of the most perceptive non-anarchist writers/ speakers I know of are Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen. Below is a conversation they had about resistance.
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Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of evidence that neanderthals had a broader diet than previously believed. Traces of legumes, grains, dates and even water lilies were found on neanderthal teeth from present day Belgium and Iraq. Also surprising is that … Continue reading →

I have recently been wondering about local sources of (free) clay. So I googled it. One recommendation was to go out to construction or street work sites to find exposed clay. Another said that clay can be found two feet … Continue reading →

Do yourself a favor and spend a half hour listening to these perceptive anarchafeminists from Bolivia and Mexico.