Lately it seems almost too easy to be optimistic about the future of our country’s role in national and international affairs. With a new progressive president in the White House and a recession that exemplifies the egregious hubris with which the former administration conducted its business, it seems the gods have vindicated liberal America in […]
Erik Syverson
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Twilight of the Machines
The value of John Zerzan’s book Twilight of the Machines is not its fresh interpretations of Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, nor its editing (which deserved better), but rather its utter commitment as a polemic. Released by Feral House, the book seems nothing less than an attempt to initiate a paradigmatic break in ideology with Western […]
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Coming of Age at the End of History
At this point in history, it would be cliché to state that every generation has its calling. However, as Camille de Toledo would tell it, that is exactly the calling of his own. In his book, Coming of Age at the End of History, he describes this generation as those having grown up between the […]
