The site that inspired me to make this directory. Lots of classic reading about Primitivism.

A bunch of articles, reviews and the like.

Info website about the biggest problems of the 21st century.

A PDF copy of Fredy Perlman's classic 1983 critique on civilization. Hosted on Anarchist Library.

A primer about Green Anarchy.

The legendary "Unabomber Manifesto" written by Ted Kaczynski.

A short article by Quinn Norton about the four years he spent as writer in Puerto Rico.

Marshall Sahlins' anthropological paper about hunter-gather society.

Jared Diamond's 1987 article concerning the agricultural revolution.

Our most powerful 21st-century technologies are threatening to make humans an endangered species. (Full 11 Page Article)

Henry David Thoreau's original, influencial 1850's reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. Classic, but very challenging. Hosted by Internet Archive.

Weekly broadcast on University of Oregon Radio (KWVA 88.1 FM)

Discusses radical resistance and projects in Oakland and beyond. Free Radical Radio is hosted by Rydra and Bellamy.

Ziqian's commentary blog about anarcho-primitivism and philosophical Daoist thought.

Ian Smith's blog about Animal Liberation and Green Anarchy.

Natasha Alvarez's blog about rebellion, activism, mourning and solidarity.

Weekly podcast.

A fledgeling blog about opposing and dismantling civilization.

Ran Priur's blog, essays, zines ... etc.

Media from the Frontlines of Ecological Resistance

Kevin Tucker's Anarcho-primitivist/green anarchist publishing group.

A distributor of anti-political books.

Anarcho-primitivism is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization. According to anarcho-primitivism, the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion, alienation, and population growth. Anarcho-primitivists advocate a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies.

The Neolithic Revolution or Neolithic Demographic Transition, sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to support an increasingly large population.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools.

A megalopolis (sometimes improperly called a megapolis) or megaregion is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas.

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.

The technological singularity hypothesis is that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing or even ending civilization in an event called the singularity.

Karōshi (過労死?), which can be translated literally from Japanese as "death from overwork", is occupational sudden death. The major medical causes of karōshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress and a starvation diet.

Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き籠もり Hikikomori?, literally "pulling inward, being confined", i.e., "acute social withdrawal") is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement.

[...] For the Cynics, the purpose of life was to live in virtue, in agreement with nature. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which was natural for humans, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame. Instead, they were to lead a simple life free from all possessions.

Deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semiskilled or unskilled workers. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital.

Neo-Luddism or New Luddism is a philosophy opposing many forms of modern technology. According to a manifesto drawn up by the Second Luddite Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio) Neo-Luddism is "a leaderless movement of passive resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age."

An incredible movie about a writer who falls in love with his computer's highly advanced (sentient) operating system.

A computer scientist uploads his brain into a machine. It's not a very good movie, but the themes of technologic resistance are there.

Derrick Jensen outlines assumptions made in his 2008 book "Endgame".

A video documenting John Calhoun's experiment on mice society.

A talk about automation, robotics and the replacement of large industries with thinking computers.

The goal of anarchistnews.org is to provide a non-sectarian source for news about and of concern to anarchists.

A guide for tuneling as a form of protest.