Crazy Wisdom in an imaginary Fez

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Fifth Estate # 416, Spring 2025

a review of Hakim Bey: Real and Unreal by Th. Metzger. Motgus-sanlux, 2023

The beasts of the Southwest desert have a message for us

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Fifth Estate # 412, Fall, 2022

a review of A Desert Pilgrim’s Bestiary by Anthony Walent, author; Maurice Spira, Illustrator. Eberhardt Press, …

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Stashing the Tacky Little Pamphlets

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Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022

You might assume that a Tacky Little Pamphlet (TLP) is just another name for a mini-zine. …

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This World We Must Leave

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Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021

a review of When We Are Human by John Zerzan. Feral House 2021

Why Zines Refuse to Die

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Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020

Why would someone continue to read and publish xeroxed zines two decades into the 21st century? …

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Infomodities

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Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020

“News is the dialogue of fragmented power with itself. Notice how scientists, politicians or businessmen now …

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How Rational is Rationality?

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Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019

There is something faulty with the concept of humans as rational animals. It defines humanity by …

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Dismantling the Biomechanical Leviathan

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Fifth Estate # 402, Winter 2019

In Raoul Vaneigem’s 1967 Situationist treatise, The Revolution of Everyday Life, he recounts what resulted from …

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What does it mean to be human or transhuman?

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Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018

a review of The Transhuman Future: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. …

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The X-Files

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Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017

The X-Files, the science fiction television series that aired from 1993 to 2002, featured fictional FBI …

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