Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse: Intro to John Zerzan’s conference in Montreal, May 2008:
http://layla.miltsov.org/introduction-to-z/
Additional background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan
[As a stepping stone, begin with the two short films from the first lecture below followed by the third lecture]
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First Lecture / Discussion: Earth’s Global Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=50A92BF6E5A73B03

Summary: Today our inner nature is as battered as Nature itself. Freud, 80 years ago, labeled the connection between civilization (domestication) and our discontent (unhappiness). As anarchists, what do we do apropos our ‘chances for changing things’?

The two short films presented (not included) were:

1. Adventure of a Speck of Dust: “An alternative interview with John Zerzan, an American anarchist and primitivist Director: Ljubodrag Staroviah Prize for the Best Experimental film at the 54th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival 2006”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...21484&hl=en

2,Yu Koyo Peya: “A documentary by Tyler Kimble summarizing the primitivist critique of civilization, and the arguments regarding collapse.”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=65...26430&hl=en

Q/A discussions followed (45 minutes). John Zerzan was among the converted in this lecture (almost) and had a more invested interest in qualifying his POV. It is helpful to read the info-introduction along with wikipedia.
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Second Lecture / Discussion: Pretentions of Modernity
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=38DCCC2DDA633270

“There is change in the air. The realities that surround us, the toll of industrialism, and the growing pathology of our social and personal lives are forcing people to rethink claims of modernity, progress and enlightenment” John Zerzan
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Third Lecture / Discussion / Workshop: Anarcho-Primitivism, Archeology and Anthropolgy (an anti-civilization perspective along with indigenous inspiration)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=31D092367A95DECB