October 26, 2009
Abstract: Anthropologists, such as Jack Goody, or thinkers like John Zerzan or Walter Ong, have traced the development of written language to the beginnings of agricultural civilisation, which, in order to succeed in its premise of killing competition and of using the world and its inhabitants (plants, animals and humans) as resources and belongings, demanded […]
Abstract for a paper presented at the Masking and Unmasking interdisciplinary conference, Duke University, 12th September 2008: Architecture, or the modification of one’s environment to construct shelter, dwelling or home, is contingent on the philosophical position that ultimately reveals and/or conceals the knowledge that generates cultural dispositions. In this paper, I present three literary examples […]
July 25, 2008
My poem was inspired by Elena Korniakova and Vesta Korniakova’s art. Elena found that the Native American legends on the birth of the world where a woman lands from the sky on a timeless turtle echoed the Ukrainian pagan myths about the birth, Mother Earth (BOGINYA-BEREGINYA), a magic tree, and seeds of life. When I […]
June 18, 2008
translated by Layla AbdelRahim, June 2008 To John Zerzan, whose ability for empathy took him beyond the symbolic of children’s books and propaganda, who even as a child knew the pain endured by Thomas the Tank Engine as he was being domesticated, his will broken – I dedicate this translation to John and to all […]
Introduction to John Zerzan’s series of conferences and workshops in Montreal, May 2008 1/10 2/10 3/10 4/10 5/10 6/10 7/10 8/10 9/10 10/10
Introduction to John Zerzan’s series of conferences and workshops in Montreal, May 2008 1/11 2/11 3/11 4/11 5/11 6/11 7/11 8/11 9/11 10/11 11/11
Introduction to John Zerzan’s series of conferences and workshops in Montreal, May 2008 1/8 2/8 3/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 7/8 8/8
June 16, 2008
Introduction: 1. Beyond the Symbolic 2. The Collapse Conferences: 1. The Earth’s Global Crisis 2. Pretentions of Modernity 3. Anarcho-Primitivism, Archeolgy and Anthropology 1.Beyond the Symbolic John Zerzan is one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers in the United States, at least. Like everything else in life, in order to fully appreciate Zerzan’s contribution to […]
May 9, 2008
(based on a Russian folk tale. By Y. Norstein with English subtitles)
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