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Black and Green Review no 2 by Kevin Tucker
Black and Green Review is a new anarcho-primitivist journal focused on expanding anti-civilization and green anarchist praxis, discourse and debate. Following on the legacy of Species Traitor and Green Anarchy, this new publication seeks to draw out the critique of civilization and the return to wildness. For a passionate resistance and wild existence. Kevin Tucker, John Zerzan, Four Legged Human, Steve Kirk, and Evan Cestari. Opening Kevin Tucker Greetings from John Zerzan The Biggest Natasha Alvarez ESSAYS Not So Close John Zerzan To Speak of Kevin Tucker The Unseen Lincoln Finch Written in Four Legged Human DISCUSSION Stone Tools and Symbolic Cliff Hayes News from John Zerzan Subjects Kevin Tucker Why the Primitive Skills Movement is Failing Tamarack Song FIELD NOTES FROM THE PRIMAL WAR True Crime Case Fiber Optic Cable Attack Spawning Blooms, Spawning Kevin Tucker Losing Syria's New Climate Evan Cestari The Forest is Our Sofia Yu on the Fate of the Penan Field Work in the End Times, Part Two REVIEWS 'To Our Friends' Unavoidable a Review of Glass Cage and a Deadly Wandering American Exodus
128 pages, Paperback
Published October 29, 2015
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Kevin Tucker
28 books15 followersKevin 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.
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.
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January 4, 2018
The Black and Green Review is a journal of writing on strategies for returning to humanity's small-scale, direct-return roots, sometimes called "rewilding," particularly by contributor Four-Legged Human, in the eco-anarchist or "green anarchist" tradition. Reading the BAGR as it progresses reveals to the reader each regular contributor's personal path and mission to report the histories, perspectives and strategies that comprise the Review's overall message.
The Review's content is often but not always sober, tending from personal and spiritual self-talks on Natasha Alvarez' side, to various contributors' exuberant reports of wild resistance, to the steady critically and spiritually passionate lessons of de-facto editor Kevin Tucker.
As with its predecessors, the Review maintains not only a criticism of agricultural, sedentary domestication and its logical imperialist/capitalist end, often simply termed "civilization," but also provides a wealth of quality research intended to give the reader a real inducement to try out any number of strategies offered in the journal. The writing tends overwhelmingly to be empowering, spiritual and cosmopolitan, never pedantic, myopic or cliquey as in the case of Black Seed and lesser anarchist papers.
As the author of this review, I personally would like to add that Kevin Tucker's essays are consistently of the highest quality, both in terms of research but also in prose. I think he truly is the finest writer in English on anarchism, anti-civilization and rewilding writing today. He has synthesized and improved everything that Ward, Bookchin, Abbey et al tried to convey. To assay a risky analogy, if Zerzan and Bookchin are the Hegel/Kant of green anarchism, then Tucker is the Marx/Weber needed to synthesize the teaching for a wide audience. I highly recommend BAGR to anyone interested in the continued struggle of life on earth, regardless of education, ideology or experience.
The Review's content is often but not always sober, tending from personal and spiritual self-talks on Natasha Alvarez' side, to various contributors' exuberant reports of wild resistance, to the steady critically and spiritually passionate lessons of de-facto editor Kevin Tucker.
As with its predecessors, the Review maintains not only a criticism of agricultural, sedentary domestication and its logical imperialist/capitalist end, often simply termed "civilization," but also provides a wealth of quality research intended to give the reader a real inducement to try out any number of strategies offered in the journal. The writing tends overwhelmingly to be empowering, spiritual and cosmopolitan, never pedantic, myopic or cliquey as in the case of Black Seed and lesser anarchist papers.
As the author of this review, I personally would like to add that Kevin Tucker's essays are consistently of the highest quality, both in terms of research but also in prose. I think he truly is the finest writer in English on anarchism, anti-civilization and rewilding writing today. He has synthesized and improved everything that Ward, Bookchin, Abbey et al tried to convey. To assay a risky analogy, if Zerzan and Bookchin are the Hegel/Kant of green anarchism, then Tucker is the Marx/Weber needed to synthesize the teaching for a wide audience. I highly recommend BAGR to anyone interested in the continued struggle of life on earth, regardless of education, ideology or experience.
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