Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:10:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: (Fwd) The Poverty of Primitivism (Web Link)


Hi.  I realize that just mentioning criticism of primitivism will
seriously piss some people off, but I thought that it was worthwhile that
people see some debate on this issue. This wasnt written by me, so dont
take out your anger on me... I'm just forwarding this link.

 - JH

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:10:44 -0800
From: Bureau of Public Secrets <knabb-AT-slip.net>
Subject: The Poverty of Primitivism


Ken Knabb's new polemic THE POVERTY OF PRIMITIVISM is online at
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/primitivism.htm


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Texts of related interest at the same website:

THE JOY OF REVOLUTION (chapter 4 examines technological and ecological
issues) --
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev.htm

A LOOK AT SOME OF THE RESPONSES TO "PUBLIC SECRETS" (includes replies to
John Zerzan and "Fifth Estate") --
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/look.htm

COMMUNALISM: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE 20TH CENTURY (book by Kenneth Rexroth,
the first chapter of which discusses communalism in primitive societies) --
http://www.slip.net/~knabb/rexroth/communalism.htm


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The Bureau of Public Secrets website features writings by Ken Knabb
(recently collected in the book "Public Secrets"), Knabb's translations from
the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that helped
trigger the May 1968 revolt in France), and the Rexroth Archive (texts by
and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth).


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