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.
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 27: Interview with Klee Benally
April 18, 2021
In this episode, Natasha and Kevin have a lengthy discussion with Klee Benally of Indigenous Action (indigenousaction.org). Klee needs little introduction, but he’s been involved for decades in a number of campaigns and projects, offering a long standing critical voice and role at the forefront of anticolonial resistance. We clear the air about issues in the anti-civilization milieu and about the interplay of accomplices and resistance. The nature of colonialism and civilization. Unsettling, decolonization, anticolonialism, and landback.
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.
Black and Green Podcast 11: 8-12-2018
Black and Green Review 6 timeline. Anniversaries of Charlottesville and execution of Mike Brown in the unending tension of social media and civilization. Poem break: Joan Kovatch's 'Timing'. Of Gods and Country, update, overview and reading. Murder of native women and the legacies and institutions of colonization. Intergenerational trauma and domestication. Why hunter-gatherers matter.
Episode 10: 7-3-2018
'Of Gods and Country' update. MD newspaper shooter and facial recognition software. Colonizers and headhunters in 'Severed.' Identity politics, social media, and seeing faces on a new virtual landscape and the rise of a new ethno-nationalism. Dear Antifa.
Black & Green Podcast 9: 6-5-2018.
Some podcast housecleaning, now available on the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network, upcoming Goodlife Revival interview and Gathered Remains promo. Info on submitting work for Black and Green Review no 6. Monsanto's insane 'Climate Fieldview' "social network": automation and automatons for a dismal future. Discussion on Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent new book Natural Causes. On growing up a Zionist and writing a book about Christian missionaries, but not overlooking the colonization of Israel. Readings from Fredy Perlman.
Black & Green Podcast 8, Parts 1 & 2: 5-6-2018.
The unfortunate murder of "Ayahuasca shaman", Olivia Arévalo Lomas. Colonization and entitlement. The madness of the frontier and how the white murderer remains the story. The creepy world of guru tourism. The failed search for meaning as captives within civilization and how colonization powers entitlement escapism. The implications for rewilding. Bashing the feel-good eco-capitalism of Guayaki brand yerba mate. The genocide of the Aché and who is complicit. Slavery and plantations as the product of missionaries. Rewilding and resisting a system that makes white privilege possible. Battling civilization as a whole rather than falling for gurus.
Episode 7: April 17, 2018.
Following up on the Cambridge Analytica fallout: what we already knew, hints of what's to come. High tech surveillance vs old-timey surveillance in terms of governments, corporations and others. Green Scare as an example of the old, trolls and nerds stacking the deck for the future. Our lives as data and shifting ideas about what Artificial Intelligence is (spoiler alert: domestication). Algorithms rule everything around me.
Episode 6: April 7, 2018.
Featuring Yank! Civilization's geniuses want to "disenchance" factory farmed animals for "humane" reasons. 'Atomic Homefront' and nuclear waste: the costs of civilization, nuclear dumpster fires and what things civilization presents to us. Yanomami and the Atomic Energy Commission, Napoleon Chagnon, and reading from 'Gathered Remains.' Catching some fire about 'Catching Fire' and how fire has shaped us.
Episode 5: March 12, 2018.
Elon Musk wants hipsters to colonize Mars to survive nuclear war. "I can't believe we still have to talk about this shit" edition: Derrick Jensen, "anarchists are rapists" and anti-trans insanity. Don't let this one slide. Cult of personality and no gods, no gurus. Quick hot take on Graeber. Another one bites the dust, Danny Vitalis, you won't be missed.
Episode 4: March 1, 2018.
Technological failures: Elon Musk edition. Void updates: interfaces, neuroplasticity, the maliciousness of control, and the importance of data. Readings from Carr, Hayes, and Foer. Rewilding and the importance of grounding. GA Bradshaw on rattlesnakes as social animals and the consequences of translocation for grounded animals, why we aren't seeing it ourselves. Anti-missionary bash: the Wuaorani, homosexuality, and Christian suppression - why the domesticated hate joy.
(Finally figuring this thing out more and making realistically sized files)
Episode 3: Feb 22, 2018.
Gathered Remains is here! Anti-missionary bash: Las Casas and who owns Christianity, New Tribes Missions and the decimation of the Panare. The myth of human uniqueness: insights from Carl Safina on what we're not seeing, tools vs technology, rewilding and overcoming of identification with the machine.
Episode 2: Feb 15, 2018.
Some thoughts on mass shootings and violence, the importance of community and conflict resolution. Anti-missionary intermission, fucking with missionaries. Why I hate philosophy rant and thoughts on "anti-academic" posturing.
