Primal Anarchy Podcast

Primal Anarchy Podcast Episode 29: Rewilding Podcast Mashup with Peter Michael Bauer
July 27, 2021

Some brief housecleaning: announcing KT’s other podcast, These Old Dogs, on 90/00s anarchist and punk scenes. More stuff in the works and hopefully more regular episodes coming up soon. Second half of a discussion between Natasha and Peter Michael Bauer of The Rewilding Podcast (first half is on the Rewilding Podcast, so check that out). Talking about rewilding, the term, what it has been, what it is, what it can and can not be. Working with kids, working with the land, and more.

Primal Anarchy Podcast Episode 26: Interview with Deana Dartt
May 25, 2020

House keeping: Book club and upcoming meeting, first book is Terra Nullius by Sven Lindqvist. 15% of all of our sales still going to Indigenous Mutual Aid, please toss them some support (indigenousmutualaid.org). Kickstarter underway, will be up anytime. We continue our ongoing conversation about primal anarchy and the nature of resistance to civilization and domestication with Deana Dartt, PhD. Deana is Coastal Chumash and Mestiza. Her work is focused on decolonization and indigenization, raising Indigenous voices and experiences back into the lands and narratives that sought to erase them. She has worked with everything from museum curators to activist groups to push forward this necessary discussion. She also shares our enthusiasm for bridging gaps between decolonization and anti-civilization. Listen up, you’ll like it. More importantly, you’ll learn from it. Support Deana’s work at liveoaknative.com.

Primal Anarchy Podcast Episode 25: What is Primal Anarchy?
May 16, 2020

House keeping: Indigenous Mutual Aid benefit still going on at blackandgreenpress.org, reminder on the book club, coronavirus, collapse and conspiracy theories, no town criers left to announce when civ is collapsed. Talk about the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for Natasha’s new book, Rites of Passage, and the second, revised edition of Origins, the John Zerzan Reader. Liminal audiobook is coming, read by Ryan Morgan of Misery Signals, with a sample played. Natasha talks a bit about Liminal. Then jumping full on into our ongoing discussion about what is primal anarchy. The implications of anarchy being our natural state and refusing the politics of negation and negating politics. Time to throw out the Western tradition.

June 11, 2019

Podcast housecleaning. Talking about the upcoming revised and expanded second edition of For Wildness and Anarchy, reading the new introduction. A little more book talk and Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. Ted Kaczynski and the Ship of Fools. Sorry everyone, Ted is an awful writer and worse thinker. The revolutionary reductionism and hope for a singular focus. It’s impossible and stupid, civilization is the entire picture and if we don’t account for the details, we miss the whole thing. Outro music: Burning Empires - Emerging Primal.

House cleaning and introduction. The Cull of Personality is out now, discussion about the politics of representation and building narratives without owning other people. Lilia reads the first chapter, ‘A Shallow Grave.’ Wild Resistance no 6 will be here any day, information about the new issue. For Wildness and Anarchy expanded second edition updates. Getting back to work on Of Gods and Country. Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth and the nature of the American identity. The frontier versus the border in terms of the colonial imagination. Eco-feminist book recommendations and the innate power of the medical industry. Mythologies of civilization’s progress. Anti-missionary book recommendations. Indigenous narrative book recommendations and the complexities of representation. Indigenous resistance versus revolutionary, from the view point of an Apache child during the Apache Wars.

Episode 16: Book Recommendations, Part 1.
January 9, 2019

House cleaning and announcements: Black and Green Podcast is now Primal Anarchy Podcast, Black and Green Review is now Wild Resistance. New book announcement, Cull of Personality: Ayahuasca, Colonialism and the Death of a Healer, e-book out now, print books in hand later this month. Thoughts on primal anarchy vs anarcho-primitivism. Get pissed about what is happening to the Unist’ot’en. Madhusree Mukerjee on the Sentinelese killing missionary John Chau. Book recommendations, part 1: your anti-civ library. You’re welcome nerds. - A Nerd.

Had the pleasure of swinging by Eugene, Oregon to meet up at John Zerzan's house last weekend along with five other current and former editors of Black and Green Review to talk about the journal, direction, discussion about the anarchist milieu and anti-civ discussion. Featuring John Zerzan, Evan Cestari, Lilia, Cliff Hayes, and Yank.

'The Suffocating Void' by Kevin Tucker. From Gathered Remains. Read by Ryan Morgan.

A reading of Kevin Tucker's essay 'Feral Revisions' from Black and Green Review no 5.

A brief response on a 1991 school book on explorers. Focusing on cults and how civilization demands people be broken via domestication. Starting with the NXIVM cult. Reading from ‘Society Without Strangers’ and talk of neoteny. How primal anarchy shapes us, how domestication breaks us, how civilization requires us to be broken, and how cults and gurus can come in to prey on the remnants. Yoga gurus and sexual predation. Other human failures. And the reaping of toxic masculinity among Operation Werewolf and other parasites.