Primal Anarchy Podcast

Episode 28: Whiteness and Civilization
April 18, 2021

Housecleaning. Apologies about the absence, doing the best we can. Talking a little bit about some of what Kevin has been going through over the last year, particularly dissociative identity disorder. A bit more here: https://www.gofundme.com/trauma-healing-and-recovery Going over a bit of what has been going on the last year in terms of the veneer of white supremacy slipping and what that says about civilization. How whiteness embodies the entitlement of the colonizer. Talk a bit about Cull of Personality and questions of representation. The scourge of white liberals and the racism of Stephen Harrod Buhner. Looking at issues in the worlds of rewilding, white herbalism, and more. Talking about systems and the nature of abuse over just focusing on how we save ourselves.

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.

House cleaning, falling a little behind in a pandemic can happen. What’s what with Black and Green; upcoming Kickstarter, new address (POB 36 Denver, PA 17517), Natasha’s medicinals and consulting, and announcing the book club! First book: Terra Nullius by Sven Lindqvist. Plugging a recent interview with Solecast and needing to be done with the Western traditions of resistance. The big coronavirus and collapse rundown: falling down the lead of a narcissist and how it contributes to the chaos we’re all feeling. The rising tide of fascism and the withering veneer of white fragility over white supremacy. Mutual aid and colonialism, call out for support for the Indigenous Mutual Aid network: indigenousmutualaid.org. Natasha reads her poem, Making Pancakes. Talking about the Gospel of Empire and getting work out farther and wider.

Primal Anarchy Podcast Episode 23: Ruins and RemainsDecember 6, 2019

House cleaning: listener feedback. Talking about the trouble with words and particularly problematic ones: community can be iffy, but tribes is a no go. Book clubs and online courses? Feed us your feedback and ideas. Field trip report back: Cahokia. Natasha and Kevin check in on their on going ruins tour with Cahokia, the Mississippian civilization that collapsed around 1250 AD. Talking about ruins and the final days before collapse, then discussing the nature of collapse in general. Kickstarter campaign: talking a bit about our two upcoming books; Origins - A John Zerzan Primer and Natasha’s Rites of Passage. Reading a bit from the intro of Origins and then Natasha talks poetry and reads a couple pieces from Rites. Discussing the remains of the wild on display in museums and the pathology of treating corpses like trophies, displayed unceremoniously. B&Gs books for closing out 2019, supporting our work and why.