Item #23782 Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture. Anarchist, radical ecology Zines.
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture
Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture

Colonization as Engineered Agriculture, Anarchist Ecology, Primitive Shelters, Printed Protest in Late 1990s and Early 2000s Zine Culture

Pamphlet

Anarchist and radical ecology zine group from the 1990s through early 2000s, documenting the convergence of environmentalism, anti corporate politics, direct action, DIY practice, and anarchist social theory in the independent print culture surrounding the turn of the millennium. Ecological subjects dominate the group: genetic engineering and industrial agriculture, clandestine crop destruction, primitive shelter construction, coal extraction, renewable energy, sustainability, and automobile dependence. The material belongs to the period when anti globalization and anarchist networks increasingly treated ecological degradation as inseparable from corporate concentration, technological systems, and centralized economic power.

Group of fourteen pamphlets and zines, principally from the 1990s to early 2010s, issued by various publishers and distributors and illustrated in black and white.
[1] Scrinis, Gyorgy. "Colonizing the Seed: Genetic Engineering and Techno Industrial Agriculture." Melbourne: Friends of the Earth Anti Genetic Engineering Collective, 1995.
[2] DuBrul, Sascha Altman, ed. "Carnival of Chaos: The Nomadic Festival Summer ’95." Hook or Crook Publishing, 1995.
[3] McPherson, John and Geri. "Primitive Semi Permanent Shelters." Randolph, Kansas: Prairie Wolf, 1999. Third printing.
[4] "The Nighttime Gardener’s Guide: A Guide for the Shy Gardener in North America." Winter 2000 version. Distributed by Oak and Cactus Distro.
[5] Headley, Joshua. "Breakdown." Issue 1. New York: Printed and distributed by Deep Green Resistance.
[6] "What’s Wrong with Renewable Energy?" Likely distributed by "Earth First! Journal," c. 2010s. Text originally published by "Stories of Creative Ecology."
[7] "Coal Wars." Likely distributed in cooperation with Mountain Justice and RAMPS, c. 2010s.
[8] Alston, Ashanti. "Black Anarchism." New York City: Printed and distributed by A New World in Our Hearts, c. 2003.
[9] Goodman, Paul and Percival. "Banning Cars from Manhattan." New York City: Printed and distributed by A New World in Our Hearts.
[10] Gelderloos, Peter. "The Justice Trap: Law and the Disempowerment of Society." Presented at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow; printed and distributed by A New World in Our Hearts, New York City, 2010.
[11] "Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle: Towards a Less Fucked Up World!" Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Printed and distributed by A New World in Our Hearts, c. 2000s.
[12] "Quit Smoking: A DIY Guide by Ex Smokers." New York City: Printed and distributed by In Our Hearts, c. 2000s.
[13] "The Catechisms." New York City: Printed and distributed by A New World in Our Hearts, c. 2000s.
[14] Eisenstein, Charles. "To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts." New York City: Printed and distributed by In Our Hearts, 2011.


"Colonizing the Seed" attacks genetic industrial agriculture and the commodification of seed while "The Nighttime Gardener’s Guide" carries that critique to genetically engineered crops in the political environment surrounding the WTO protests; "Primitive Semi Permanent Shelters" presents low technology woodland construction as practical knowledge outside consumer systems; and "Coal Wars," "What’s Wrong with Renewable Energy?," and the sustainability themed "Breakdown" extend the critique into extraction, energy policy, and industrial civilization. The group also shows how the same print culture applied anarchist analysis to Black liberation, sobriety, smoking, law, gift economies, urban transportation, and itinerant counterculture. The remaining titles show the larger anarchist culture in which these ecological arguments circulated: Alston connects anarchism to Black liberation and anti racism; the sobriety and smoking pamphlets apply anarchist critique to addiction and everyday discipline. Several items retain Oak and Cactus Distro and In Our Hearts distribution information, preserving evidence of the decentralized channels that kept older and contemporary radical texts in circulation. Light handling wear, toning, occasional edge wear, and minor marks visible across the group. Overall good condition.

Item #23782

Price: $450.00

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