Apropos of the day, we’ll read Bob Black’s Debunking Democracy.

Things came up and we didn’t actually meet last week, so tomorrow we’re doing last week’s reading. From Against Civilization, read the essays “Nature and Madness”, “Health and the Rise of Civilization”, “The Search for Society”, “My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization”, “Society Against the State”, “The Land of the Naked People”, and “Reading and Writing” a look. Archive.org is still down, so the link this week is to The Anarchist Library. If you have the Feral House pdf we were using before, that’s pp. 74-101. See you soon!

More from Against Civilization next time: give the essays “Nature and Madness”, “Health and the Rise of Civilization”, “The Search for Society”, “My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization”, “Society Against the State”, “The Land of the Naked People”, and “Reading and Writing” a look. Archive.org is still down so the link this week is to The Anarchist Library. If you have the Feral House pdf we were using before, that’s pp. 74-101. See you soon!

You have two for this occasion: Arthur Machen’s tale “Out of the Earth” and an interview with Alan Moore. May you enjoy them!

We continue with John Zerzan’s Against Civilization! Please read pages 31-74.

This week – a story about ourselves? The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster.

This week, we begin with John Zerzan’s Against Civilization. Please read pages 1-30.

JH’s word on the text:

A collection of historical essays critiquing the civilized mode of existence from a philosophical, existential, psychosocial and biological point of view. Includes such writers as Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Rousseau, Thoreau, and the late great Fredy Perlman! Don’t miss it!

Introductory texts are always fun, so this week it’s Colin Ward’s Anarchism – A Very Short Introduction. Be sure to savor Ch. 1-5 (pp.1-50).

This week – our own local Lew leads us in reading choice slices from Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day. No preparation is required, but bring your Pynchonian hat if you have one.

Two cold ones for next time: Nechayev’s “Catechism of a Revolutionist” and excerpts from Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice. For the Cleaver, read the introduction and the first two letters—“On Becoming” and “Soul on Ice” (pp. xi-xv and 3-25)