John Moore
 poet - professor - primitivist


Anarchy and Ecstacy: Visions of Halcyon Days
 
The best of the present culture - a culture in the pathological sense only - points beyond itself toward the recovery of primate lifeways. This sequence of speculative and analytical essays constitutes a body of visionary insights -- uncovering beyond ideology a field of infinite potentialities. Anarchy and Ecstasy examines vital issues on the interface between 'fact' and 'fiction', history and myth, and proposes the development of a culture of anarchy: a culture aware of its roots in a genuinely halcyon society -- and confident of its future in a renewed earthly paradise.

  • A Sprig of Mistletoe
  • Toward a Cultural Ecology of Anarchy
  • On Ecdysis
  • Bewilderness
  • Eversion Mysteries
  • Culture and Anarchy
  • The Appeal of Anarchy
  • Selected Bibliography

    "If you're only going to read one anarchist tract this year then you should choose this pamphlet" -- Edinburgh Review

    "... attempts to move anarchist thinking beyond the confines of strictly strategic or historical matters, into areas that are usually monopolized by religion, spiritualists, matriarchists, and other sorts of figures usually spurned by anarchists" -- Bulletin of Anarchist Research

    "Anarchy and Ecstasy rushed into my brain like the North Wind" -- Peter Werbe, Fifth Estate



    Other essays and interviews
     
  • Beyond the Fragments - from Green Anarchist #51
  • Comin' Home: Defining Anarcho-Primitivism
  • Dianamania - from Green Anarchist #51
  • Emporia State - from Green Anarchist #56
  • Interview with John Filiss
  • Maximalist Anarchism/Anarchist Maximalism - from Social Anarchism #25
  • On the Enlightenment - from Green Anarchist #56
  • Primitivist Primer - from Green Anarchist
  • Prophets of the New World - from Social Anarchism #51
  • Response to Ron Leighton (on technology and mediation)


    Poems
     
  • A Revolution of the Whole Body - from Green Anarchist #64-65
  • Chaos and Revolution - from Green Anarchist #62
  • The Reinvention of Planets - from Green Anarchist #67
  • Unruly Harmony - from Green Anarchist #66


    Related material
     
  • Infoshop.org newswire reports John Moore's death (with comments)
  • John Connor's obituary for John Moore
  • Links to related sites


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