David Levi Strauss by Hakim Bey. The Practice + Theory series is sponsored in part by the Frances Dittmer Family Foundation. Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996. David Levi Strauss and I got to know each other in the ‘80s, teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where we were possibly first drawn together because neither of us is Buddhist. In those good old days when Ginsberg was still “above room temperature” (as Tuli Kupferberg says), Boulder experienced such limpid azure caressing afternoons and rainbow poetics weather that people would come in for a week, then cancel their flights home and linger on and on, falling in love with the wrong people and staying up all night.
Consequently, details are blurred; but I do recall especially Levi’s compassionate and upsetting lecture on landmines in Cambodia (from where he’d just come), and episodes from his ongoing (perhaps lifelong) meditation on photography and memory, Odile & Odette. DLS Not so much. LYNX VILDEN - A woman outside of time (english subtitles) Anarchism vs primitivism - Brian Oliver Sheppard. This important pamphlet looks closely at the fundamental conflicts between anarchism and primitivism. It traces primitivism's basic precepts back to their authoritarian roots, reveals primitivist misconceptions about anarchism, capitalism and technology, shows how the corporate media have used primitivism to discredit anarchism, and also shows how ideology-driven primitivists, much like fundamentalist Christians opposed to evolution, have picked through anthropological evidence to support their predetermined conclusions, while ignoring data that contradict those conclusions.
This pamphlet was originally published by See Sharp Press, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2003. It has been digitised by libcom.org with full permission of the publisher. Any errors in formatting or spelling are solely our own. Primitivism. Discours de la servitude volontaire. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Discours de la servitude volontaire. Le Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un est un ouvrage rédigé en 1549 par Étienne de La Boétie à l'âge de dix-huit ans. Sa première publication date de 1574. Ce texte consiste en un court réquisitoire contre l'absolutisme qui étonne par son érudition et par sa profondeur, alors qu'il a été rédigé par un jeune homme d'à peine dix-huit ans. Ce texte pose la question de la légitimité de toute autorité sur une population et essaie d'analyser les raisons de la soumission de celle-ci (rapport « domination-servitude »).
L’œuvre[modifier | modifier le code] La puissance subversive de la thèse développée dans le Discours ne s’est jamais démentie. L’originalité de la thèse de La Boétie est contenue tout entière dans l’association paradoxale des termes « servitude » et « volontaire ». [modifier | modifier le code] Le Malencontre : origine de la dénaturation[modifier | modifier le code] André Tournon, L. Society Against the State--Pierre Clastres. Society Against the State Pierre Clastres (an excerpt from Clastres' Society Against the State) Primitive societies are societies without a State. This factual judgment, accurate in itself, actually hides an opinion, a value judgment that immediately throws doubt on the possibility of constituting political anthropology as a strict science.
In reality, the same old evolutionism remains intact beneath the modern formulations. What is the reality? Let us dwell a moment on the disastrous interest that induced the Indians to want metal implements. There is a stubborn prejudice in that notion, one which oddly enough goes hand in hand with the contradictory and no less common idea that the Savage is lazy. The Indians devoted relatively little time to what is called work. Thus we find ourselves at a far remove from the wretchedness that surrounds the idea of subsistence economy. Hakim Bey - T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism - Part 3.
"...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a holiday...Not that I have much time... " --Nietzsche (from his last "insane" letter to Cosima Wagner) Pirate Utopias THE SEA-ROVERS AND CORSAIRS of the 18th century created an "information network" that spanned the globe: primitive and devoted primarily to grim business, the net nevertheless functioned admirably. Scattered throughout the net were islands, remote hideouts where ships could be watered and provisioned, booty traded for luxuries and necessities. Some of these islands supported "intentional communities," whole mini-societies living consciously outside the law and determined to keep it up, even if only for a short but merry life. Some years ago I looked through a lot of secondary material on piracy hoping to find a study of these enclaves--but it appeared as if no historian has yet found them worthy of analysis. Waiting for the Revolution You will argue that this is a counsel of despair. 1. 2.