Podcast Appearance - "Uncivilized Podcast" with Artxmis
A brief intermission for two announcements --- [Estimated reading time: 3 min.]
Please allow me to interrupt the regular program of this blog with a quick announcement:
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Artxmis from the Uncivilized Podcast about Anarcho-Primitivism, how I became a Primitivist, Permaculture, and Delayed-Return Hunter-Gatherers.
In our conversation, I took the role of the “apologist for delayed-return foragers,” defending indigenous horticulture – and its modern cousin, permaculture – against unmerited biases and a dogmatism pervading anarcho-primitivist thought (which tends to exclude traditional societies that practice horticulture), and calling instead for their integration into the primitivist ethos.
Even if you’re not an anarcho-primitivist (or don’t even know what that is) I’m sure the conversation can still be interesting at times.
The first part of the interview, in which I attempt to defend permaculture, came out last weekend:
And the second part, in which I will defend delayed-return foragers, will be up this Saturday!
Personally, I think the second part is a lot more important and (hopefully) more interesting than the first part, so if you’re disappointed with the first half, please be patient.
In Part I, for the most part I just recycle old jokes, talk about boring personal history – “I like plants, blah blah, society bad, blah, blah, blah…” – and continue to awkwardly try to justify me using the (admittedly pretty loaded) term “permaculture” to describe what we’re doing here at Feun Foo.
Part II, on the other hand, contains a bit more “food for thought,” as I try to clarify why horticultural societies are highly relevant for primitivists and, by extension, for basically anyone who wants to live a lifestyle (and practice a subsistence mode) that’s regenerative – not ecocidal! – and who plans to increase the chances of their community making it through the unfolding economic contraction and ongoing simplification of the artificial global superorganism (aka collapse).
But there is more…
Although we talked for over two hours, much was left unsaid, which is why – and here we arrive at the second announcement – I will publish a three-part series about delayed-return hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burn. The first Part will be out Saturday (together with the second half of the interview), and the second and third Part will follow in the coming week.
(I know that publishing three >5,000-word pieces in a row is not exactly ‘best practice publishing/scheduling,’ but I don’t write for ‘maximum reach’ or German standards of regularity, I write exclusively for the people that are interested in this topic.)
In case you have any criticism or other thoughts on the interview, please feel free to comment (either on the video or on this post), or simply reach out via mail (if privacy is a concern). I strongly encourage correspondence of all kind – even if that means telling me to “watch your damn mouth when talking about [insert controversial topic here], because [insert plainly obvious reason that I overlooked]!”
If I’m wrong, I need to hear it.
I’m still at the onset of my journey to connect the dots and make sense of this crazy, terrifying, and often overwhelming moment in history we find ourselves in.
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Wow I am so hype for Saturday now