FE Author: George Bradford (David Watson)

In response to a letter from Jeffrey Vega, Tech Examined FE #315, Winter 1984. Is it too much to ask that our critics take the time to read at least some of the voluminous material on the technology question rather …

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In response to John Zerzan, “Language: Origin & Meaning” FE #315, Winter 1984. Despite his acute desire to break with all of the fictions of the modern world, John Zerzan makes the unfortunate mistake of taking its ideological justifications at …

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“Subjection of nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a …

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Staff note: George Bradford was a pseudonym used by David Watson in these pages. 1. Autopsy of a Petrochemical Disaster Remember the Exxon Valdez? The ship was the source of the worst oil spill to date in U.S. history, spilling …

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INTRODUCTION “Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his …

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  excerpted from FE #321, Indian Summer, 1985 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our friend and comrade, Fredy Perlman, who died while undergoing heart surgery in Detroit on July 26, 1985.

Somehow, the giant organizations which produce and disseminate all of this junk employ our very fear of technology to further its “unprecedented control” over our lives.

Where, then, are the roots of revolt, how can the machine be halted?