Introduction Primitive culture, Marshall Sahlins has argued, is not fetishized utility. “The practical function of (primitive) …
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A Family Quarrel
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
There’s no end to discussion about the “crisis of the family.” From Reader’s Digest to obscure …
Examining Zerzan
by Bob Brubaker, E.B. Maple (Peter Werbe), Fifth Estate Collective, John Zerzan, Paula Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Much of primitivist theorist John Zerzan’s early work appeared in the Fifth Estate. His Cassandra-like predictions …