Twilight of the Machines

The latest (in six years!) from John Zerzan, one of the best-known anarchist polemicists - this work references Nietzsche (hence the title) and predicts the downfall of civilization.

The book is in two sections, "Origins of the Crisis" and "The Crisis of Civilization," with Zerzan's standard topics revisited - language as technology, the connection of patriarchy and civilization; how civilization developed; problems with symbolic thought, etc.

Chapter titles include Overman and Unabomber; Second-Best Life: Real Virtuality; Breaking Point?; Finding Our Way Back Home; Future Primitive Notes; Beyond Symbolic Thought:an interview with Kevin Tucker (previously printed in Species Traitor), and more.