CONTENTS -- Foreword: Chellis Glendinning -- Introduction: John Zerzan -- Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences -- SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION -- Roy Walker, The Golden Feast -- Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality -- Henry David Thoreau, "Excursions" -- Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan! -- Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food -- Marshal Sahlins, "The Original Affluent Society" -- Lynn Clive, "Birds Combat Civilization" -- John Landau, "Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis" -- Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life -- Marvin Harris, Our Kind -- Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum -- SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION -- George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action -- Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness -- James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America -- John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal -- Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness -- Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization -- Robin Fox, The Search for Society -- Chellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization -- Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State -- Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People -- Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing -- SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION -- Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man -- Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies -- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents -- John Landau, "Civilization and the Primitive" -- Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason -- Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline -- Richard Heinberg, "Was Civilization a Mistake?".

Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZ -- Ivan Illich, Toward a History of Needs -- Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust -- T. Fulano, "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner" -- Unabomber (AKA "FC"), "Industrial Society and Its Future" -- Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization -- Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness -- SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION -- Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization -- William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future -- Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies -- Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society -- Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution -- Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason -- Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time -- Labor of Ludd, "The Medium Is the Medium" -- Des Rėfractaires, "How Nice to be Civilized!" -- David Watson, "Civilization in Bulk" -- Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise -- Chrystos, "They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry" -- Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life -- John Mohawk, In Search of Noble Ancestors -- SECTION V: THE RESISTANCE TO CIVILIZATION -- Rudolf Bahro, Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster: The Politics of World Transformation -- John Zerzan, Future Primitive -- William Morris, News from Nowhere -- Feral Faun, "Feral Revolution" -- Anonymous, "Don't Eat Your Revolution! Make It!" -- Glenn Parton, "The Machine in Our Heads" -- Alon K. Raab, "Revolt of the Bats" -- Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future: Lessons from the Luddites -- Derrick Jensen, "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" -- Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous, "We Have To Dismantle All This".

John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes, Talking to the Owls and Butterflies -- Group of Anarcho-Futurists, Anarcho-Futurist Manifesto -- Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her -- Communique #23 from Disorderly Conduct #6, "Why Civilization?" -- Sources.