Tag: john zerzan

Culture
Youth and Regression in an Infantile Society

Youth and Regression in an Infantile Society

Among the young there are quite a few examples of a tendency to regress or turn...

Opinion
Patriarchy, Civilization, And The Origins Of Gender

Patriarchy, Civilization, And The Origins Of Gender

Civilization, very fundamentally, is the history of the domination of nature and...

Opinion
Meaning in the Age of Nihilism

Meaning in the Age of Nihilism

In 2000 I wrote a few hundred words on "The Age of Nihilism." Some years later that...

Politics
The Practical Marx

The Practical Marx

Karl Marx is always approached as so many thoughts, so many words. Marx in his dealings...

Lifestyle
Silence

Silence

Silence used to be, to varying degrees, a means of isolation. Now it is the absence...

Future
Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality

Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality

Reams of empirical studies and a century or two of social theory have noticed that...

Economy
Numb and Number

Numb and Number

The digital age is pre-eminently the ultimate reign of Number. The time of Big Data,...

Academia
Light

Light

Simple, supremely commonplace. Ever present, this light that is nowhere else and...

Health
Happiness

Happiness

Is happiness really possible in a time of ruin? Can we somehow flourish, have complete...

Environment
Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams

This is the age of disembodiment, when our sense of separateness from the earth...

Culture
The Case Against Art

The Case Against Art

Art is always about “something hidden.” But does it help us connect with that hidden...

Politics
Alone Together: The City and its Inmates

Alone Together: The City and its Inmates

The proportion of humanity living in cities has been growing exponentially, along...