For Wildness and Anarchy

by Kevin Tucker

'For Wildness and Anarchy' is a collection of essays from Kevin Tucker (BG03/FC008). This book collects essential essays from anarcho-primitivist Kevin Tucker, originally printed over the last decade in Green Anarchy, Species Traitor, Green Anarchist, Black Clad Messenger, and more. 288 pages, printed on recycled paper.

Genres: Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Kevin Tucker is a primal anarchist writer focused on uncovering how our communal past of living in nomadic hunter-gatherer bands - without storage, without production - has shaped us. By focusing on the minutiae of how domestication impacts our relationships and ecology, we can get a better grasp on how civilization reshapes and erodes our relationship with the world.

The core of Tucker's work is to fully grasp the consequences of civilization and the ways in which it permeates and limps along. To rewild our lives, rebuild community, and resist civilization.

Reviews

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can we find healing if we don't understand what is causing our symptoms? How do we kill a malignant growth if we don't get to its roots? Why and how did we come to this path that seems to be heading inevitably toward our extinction? Kevin's conclusion matches mine: it all comes down to power, or using Kevin's term, 'domestication'. I describe it as the worship of power in the mode of domination and control. Symptoms include the state, priestcraft, capitalism, the mechanistic paradigm of science, commercial agriculture, ... perhaps umbrella terms like 'patriarchy' and/or 'civilization' are sufficient to cover the list if we use them to point to the arena where such power is exercised and where the 'wild' is exorcised.

[Livie · Rating 1 out of 5]

First sentence of the first essay: “For millions of years, humans have lived as anarchists.” *Millions* of years? Are you sure about that?? It doesn’t really get better or more accurate from there.