In this episode, I'm joined by Ben Brower, a blacksmith and former activist in the anarcho-primitivist movement. In a fairly wide-ranging conversation, we go over:

• The cultural origins of anarcho-primitivism
• The disparate political and philosophical "sides" of anarcho-primitivism
• The academic-anthropological back-and-forth at the center of the anarcho-primitivist worldview
• What it was like being in the movement in the 90s
• Heidegger, Zerzan, Kaczynski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Rousseau, and other relevant thinkers
• Some of the challenges to Anarcho-Primitivism
• And a lot more

You can find Ben's work on Instagram @pitchblackforge, or his website at www.pitchblackforge.com.

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