Running on Emptiness

The Pathology of Civilization

Paperback, 215 pages

English language

Published March 3, 2002 by Feral House.

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978-0-922915-75-0
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[a:John Zerzan|252644|John Zerzan|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1268698153p2/252644.jpg] is an anarcho-primitivist theorist who got some notoriety when the newstainment media caught on that he was a philosophical godfather to the unabomber and to the folks who made the Pacific Northwest a difficult place to hold a world bank meeting or keep a Starbucks intact.

Zerzan’s literary form is typically the academic-styled manifesto, the short screed, and the interview—and some of these have been published as collections, one being [b:Running on Emptiness|449949|Running on Emptiness The Pathology of Civilization|John Zerzan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174874910s/449949.jpg|438592]: The Pathology of Civilization.

Primitivism, in summary, starts with the observation that people have been civilized or domesticated or what-have-you for only the last 10% or so of the time we’ve been on the planet—so civilization isn’t a necessary part of being human, just what we happen to be up to these days. Next comes a critical examination of civilization with an eye to answering the question: …

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