Item: Take What You Need And Compost The Rest
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Take What You Need And Compost The Rest

Margaret Killjoy 2010

This article first appeared in Dodgem Logic #2 in 2010, and is essentially a slightly longer rewrite of post-civ!, a collaboratively written introduction published by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, published in 2008.

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"My dictionary defines civilization as 'the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.' Aside from being a sort of useless definition, this points out the prejudice inherent in civilization. It says: 'We are advanced. You are primitive. What’s more, history and development is purely linear in nature, progress only moves forward, and any deviation from the course we are on is regressive.'"

succint. juicy.

will definitely be looking for more from margaret killjoy (what do you mean she writes sci-fi too? 👀) and about post-civilized theory in the future

available at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/margaret-killjoy-take-what-you-need-and-compost-the-rest-an-introduction-to-post-civilized-theo

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"the idea of innocence faces two ways. by refusing to enter a conspiracy, one remains innocent of that conspiracy. but to remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant. the issue is not between innocence and knowledge (or between the natural and the cultural) but between a total approach to art which attempts to relate it to every aspect of experience and the esoteric approach of a few specialized experts who are the clerks of the nostalgia of a ruling class in decline. [...] the real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong? to those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?"
(john berger)