Black and Green Podcast is now Primal Anarchy Podcast!
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.
Book recommendation list (thanks to Dave Grossman for compiling this);
Note: in case you don’t listen to the episode, there are books mentioned that I talk about, but am not necessarily saying are recommended. This list is just to reference what is talked about in the episode. Also, due to my tangential thinking, the categories don’t always work cleanly and the list is not complete.
Intro talk:
Madhusree Mukerjee - Land of the Naked People
Sita Venkateswar - Development and Ethnocide
General Anti-Civ
Fredy Perlman - Against His-Story, Against Leviathan and Anything Can Happen
John Zerzan - All
Paul Shepard - Nature and Madness, Coming Home to the Pleistocene, and Traces of an Omnivore
Chellis Glendinning - My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization and Off the Map
Susan Griffin - Woman and Nature
David Watson - Against the Megamachine
Jerry Mander- In the Absence of the Sacred and 4 Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Frederick Turner- Beyond Geography
Primal Anarchy vs Primitive Communism discussion, read ‘To the Captives’
Clive Ponting - A Green History of the World
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - The Old Way
Collapse
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
William Catton Jr. - Overshoot
Brian Fagan - Floods, Famines and Emperors
Jared Diamond- Guns, Germs, and Steel
Morris Berman - Wandering God
Michael Klare - Resource Wars and Blood and Oil
Richard Heinberg - The Party’s Over and Blackout
Zygmunt Bauman - Modernity and the Holocaust
Tech Books
Lewis Mumford - Myth of the Machine parts 1&2, Technics and Civilization, and the City in History
Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows
Franklin Foer - The World Without Mind
James Bridle - The New Dark Age
Ecology
Paul Rezendes - Tracking and the Art of Seeing
Jon Young - What the Robin Knows
Ian McAllister - Following the Last Wild Wolves
Gay Bradshaw - Carnivore Minds and Elephants on the Edge
Dan Flores - Coyote America
Peter Wohlleben - Secret Life of Trees
John Valliant - The Golden Spruce
Alan Weisman - World Without Us
Carl Safina - Beyond Words and View from Lazy Point
William Cronon - Changes in the Land
Alfred Crosby - Ecological Imperialism
Ben Goldfarb - Eager: the Life of Beavers
Drugs, Substance Abuse, Addiction
David Courtwright - Forces of Habit
Andy Letcher - Shroom
Health
Nora Gedgaudas - Primal Body, Primal Mind
Barbara Ehrenreich - Natural Causes
Weston Price - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Mark Nathan Cohen - Health and The Rise of Civilization