Twilight of the Machines

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The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture—both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions. As John Zerzan writes, “These dire times may yet reveal invigorating new vistas of thought and action. When everything is at stake, all must be confronted and superseded. At this moment, there is the distinct possibility of doing just that.” Part 1: Origins of the Crisis 1. Too Marvelous for Words: Language Briefly Revisited 2. Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender 3. On the Origins of War 4. The Iron Grip of Civilization: The Axial Age 5. Alone Together: The City and its Inmates 6. Future Primitive Notes 7. Beyond Symbolic Thought: An interview with Kevin Tucker Part II: The Crisis of Civilization 8. Twilight of the Machines 9. Exiled from Presence 10. The Modern Anti-World 11. Globalization and Its Apologists: An Abolitionist Perspective 12. Overman and Unabomber 13. Why Primitivism? 14. Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality 15. Breaking Point? 16. Finding Our Way Back Home