Civilization: Its Origins and Collapse- With John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker

Ever think there was something horribly wrong with the way things are? According to anarcho-primitivists, those social, ecological, spiritual and political problems that we all face are a part of civilization.

The most basic human needs were shaped and met by the nomadic gatherer-hunter existence that has defined over 99.99% of human life. Looking back to the settling of some human societies, to an increased dependency off of stored and grown foods, through the rise of political power, emergence of work, patriarchy, warfare, and expansionism, we can get a clearer picture of the processes at work in our daily lives to keep us domesticated and docile to a world that runs against our being. [Why was I born in the .01%?]

Join anarcho-primitivist thinkers and writers, Kevin Tucker and John Zerzan for a discussion of the origins of civilization and their consequences from the beginnings of settled societies through the culture of cities and into our current globalized modernity. Talk revolves around a critique of civilization and possible directions for moving beyond it and the short comings of contemporary resistance movements.

Where: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq S, Rm 909
When: Saturday April 15, 2006- 6:00pm
Brought to you by: Earth Matters, Students for Social Equality, the Gallatin Student Council, and the Office of the Dean at Gallatin

Free and Open to the Public (Please bring ID)

John Zerzan is an anarcho-primitivist thinker and writer from Eugene, OR. Having written on the subjects of civilization, symbolic thought,
domestication, and the misery and failures of daily life over two decades, he has earned his role as one of the most important anarchist thinkers. His books include Elements of Refusal, Future Primitive, and Running on Emptiness, edited Against Civilization, and is an editor of Green Anarchy Magazine.

Kevin Tucker is an anarcho-primitivist writer from rural, southwestern PA. His focus has been on applying anthropological, ecological, and spiritual dimensions to the anarcho-primitivist critique of civilization, as well as ways out of it. He is the editor of Species Traitor journal, regular contributor to Green Anarchy, co-founder of the Black and Green Network, author of blackandgreen.info, and is currently working on his first book, Catalyst: the birth and death of civilization.