[updated september 9, 2024]
Below you will find the books we consider an important read for the anti-civilization ethos.
The most notable of works we set on top of the list:
- Technological Slavery by Theodore J. Kaczynski, introduction by David Skrbina
- Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How by Ted Kaczynski
- Repent to the Primitive by John Jacobi
- A Critique of Repent to the Primitive (offline) by John Jacobi
- Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
- The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
Anthropology:
- Kabloona by Gontran De Poncins
- Hunters of the Great North by Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
- The Truth About Primitive Life by Theodore J. Kaczynski
Cultural history:
- Nature and Madness by Paul Shepard (online here).
- Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Human nature:
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud