I recently read an incredibly annoying article in a 2015 New York Review of Books. This liberal-policy-wonk and literary monthly is run by Secular Humanoids, i.e., people trained by universities in the humanities who worship science more than most scientists, …
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Until now, I’ve tried to avoid computers at all costs, but now having had this forced upon us, I’ve begun to consider what effect this will have on our publishing efforts and those of us who work on the paper.
Cazzaarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki, PM Press, 2013, 300 pp, $18, pmpress.org. Anarchy and the anti-fascist struggle in 20th century Italy and the oppression of the Roma and other immigrants in contemporary Italy are intertwined in this …
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No Responsibility Dear Tomega Therion, Your article on coffee (FE #305, March 18, 1981) confused the evils of capitalism and of working for someone else instead of for oneself with the “evils” of coffee. The latter is merely a tool …
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Tragedy of the Sixties: If you turn on and tune in—such heavily technophilic metaphors!—you can’t really hope to drop out of the technocracy. Too bad turn off, tune out, and secede isn’t nearly so snappy a slogan.
A Tsunami/Fifth Estate Project Mountain Center & Detroit 1. Description: machine parts in the foreground, nude man in the background facing away from the viewer; balloon above him says: Well, everything gets done so quickly and easily, but… Somehow, I …
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Introduction to “Biotech: The Next Wave” by Tomas MacSheoin, FE #320, Spring, 1985 In this terrifying explication of biotechnology, Tomas Mac Sheoin notes that to reduce the natural world to a single monolithic “logic”—in this case, it is capital’s …
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Bikes have no power until bodily given and given, give back at higher gear. Being mounted, being ridden without armor plating, they’re light in their taking and being taken where. Not that bikes can’t be taken, and take to war: …
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Cell phones are an overpowering, ever present factor in society. A factor which has multiplied at a staggering rate.
On 28th September last, a group of unknown people approached a field in County Carlow, Ireland, with malicious intent. They proceeded to tear apart an acre of sugar beets’ then disappeared back into the night from which they came.
“Without government life is nasty, brutish and short.” —Thomas Hobbes Every person gazing even casually at the sordid history of government realizes that the Hobbesian dictum is nonsense and, in fact, just the opposite is true: with government, humanity has …
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a review of Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. Hardcover, 259 Pages, $26.95
Technology. We know that it offers no evidence whatsoever of having any sympathy for the nature of the world, and has nothing to do with human desires for an earth on which to dwell. We’re the people who create it, …
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a review of The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution, Mike Gunderloy and Carl Goldberg Janice, Penguin Books, New York, 1992, $14.
In another age, in a different lifetime, David Watson (under the name, George Bradford) wrote in the Spring 1984 Fifth Estate: “While there may be reason for concern about computer threats to privacy, it is generally overlooked that deepening privatization, …
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a review of Black and Green Review #4, Winter 2016 BlackAndGreenPress.org, 214 pp., $10
Note: The following article by The Unknown from Seattle was originally written as a contribution to the North American Anarchist newspaper as part of a debate on “the land.” The NAA agreed to print a section of it which has …
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EDITORS Harvey Ovshinsky Peter Werbe EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Cathy West CIRCULATION Tommye Wiese Pat Klees DISTRIBUTION Eric Watkins ADVERTISING Gunnar Lewis ART DIRECTOR Ed Bania CALENDAR Naomi STAFF Cindy Lee Marlene Tyre Michael Tyre Marilyn Werbe The FIFTH ESTATE is published …
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Godfrey Reggio is the director of two visionary films revealing the nature and impact of modern civilization on the natural world. He currently has a third in preparation.
Reprinted from FE #386, Spring 2012. Reversion to 1911 would constitute a perfect first step for a 21st century neo-Luddite movement. Living in 1911 means using technology and culture only up to that point and no further, or as little …
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