a review of Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropologists Fail by James M. Van Lanen. Birch Top Hill Press, 2024 Recently, there has been somewhat surprising interest from mainstream media in topics of domestication and rewilding. On January …
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Anarchy in Eugene
by Brenton Gicker, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
The “Whiteaker” is Eugene, Oregon’s oldest and poorest neighborhood. Over the past few years some significant anarchy-type situations have developed in Eugene, especially in Whiteaker.
Zerzan Replies
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Bob Brubaker’s defense of agriculture [this issue, FE #330, Winter, 1988-89] seems to have two main components, one in which agriculture itself recedes in favor of “symbolic exchange.” Here it is argued that “symbolism, not agriculture, was the sun around …
Agriculture: Essence of Civilization
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 329, Summer, 1988
Introduction Almost all John Zerzan essays feature accompanying introductions in which the word most frequently used to describe his method and conclusions is “provocative,” (see, for instance, Anarchy, Summer 1987). Some may think this only an ugly little term meant …
The Case against Art
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 324, Fall, 1986
Art is always about “something hidden.” But does it help us connect with that hidden something? I think it moves us away from it.
Anarchy in the Age of Reagan
by Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
Renew the Earthly Paradise Present Day Banalities The two essays printed here were written in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Italian anarchist magazine, Rivista anarchica, investigating the present situation for North American anarchist and libertarian groups and …
Death & the Zeitgeist
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
We are in mass society’s Age of Pandemics. At this stage of civilization nothing is stable or secure. The Age of Pandemics is also the Age of Extinction, as in no longer existing. Death as an existential, ontological matter. Nursing …
Number
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 321, Indian Summer, 1985
Introduction In his article on the idea of number, John Zerzan completes what appears to have become a trilogy on the origins and development of abstraction, and the accompanying alienation of humanity from nature and from the sources of …
Withdrawal & Re-Entry
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
Maybe the best single word that describes things today is withdrawal.
Transhumanism?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Transhumanism, which rarely rates a mention in the media, suddenly had a brief moment of infamy recently due to the reported interest in it by the late, evil, child sex trafficker, Jeffry Epstein.