Recent content by Insurrectionary

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so everyone is competing against everyone else in a state of nature and we inevitably get capitalism? do you know anything about cultural anthropology? most people studied by anthropolgists who live closest to a "state of nature," ie. hunter-gatherers, are more like anarcho-communists then...

Jean Baudrillard - The Violence of the Global Translated by François Debrix Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. To identify its main features, it is necessary to...

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve." oh my god. :lol...

"...human impulse to overcome fleeting time with the scaffolding of human artifacts: language, literature, arty, myth, religion, music, dancing, the institutions of the family, the tribe, the nation, and so on." makes it sound like all these things have been around more or less forever. the...

is the article called New Paradigms of the Idea of Europe? the link isn't working. it's not working on the thoreau one either but i was able to search for it. never mind. i found it through a search. for anyone interested, it's called The Encounter with History as Extension of the Self.

i just finished reading the thoreau/time article for the second time. i think it is great. the zerzan article is a complement to it for all those out there inquisitive about "time."

Time in Science I'm not a scientist but I do know that all things begin and end in eternity. -The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis Science, for our purposes, does not comment on time and estrangement with anywhere near the directness of, say, psychology. But science can be re-construed...

Time in Literature It is clear that the advent of writing facilitated the fixation of time concepts and the beginning of history. But as the anthropologist Goody (1991) points out, "oral cultures are often only too prepared to accept these innovations.'' They have already been conditioned...

Time And its Discontents John Zerzan The dimension of time seems to be attracting great notice, to judge from the number of recent movies that focus on it, such as Back to the Future, Terminator, Peggy Sue Got Married, etc. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (1989) was a best-seller...

i assume that at least some of that was in response to what i wrote, so i'll try to wade through it all and pick out what i disagree with. i agree that what have traditionally been labelled as revolutions and what traditionally stands for activism do not go to the heart of the matter. metal...

i don't think the be all and end all of possessions is whether you get some enjoyment out of them. i think there are more important things like how much the environment is destroyed so you can play with your toys, the division of labor that is necessary so you can play with your toys, etc. but...

leaving a mark on the world is a product of a culturally induced fear of death and a neurotic desrire to create and not relax.

Rights are a figment of the imagination. if you want to complain...complain. it's simple. shelter is bullshit. it's not biologically necessary, and if you look at the anthropological origins of shelter you'll see what its function has been. I'd recommend Peter Wilson's The Domestication of the...

yeah, i feel ya. i've been here and there, stocking shelves, in graduate school, etc. etc. blah blah blah. and it's all a bunch of alienating, unfulfilling bullshit. i say burn down civilization and start over in warm savanah/temperate forest where we were biologically meant to live. that's my...