ORIGINS is the essential collection of anarcho-primitivist. John Zerzan's groundbreaking work on the roots of our modern exological, social, and psycological crisis. These essays, spanning over three decades, have shaken anarchist thought and discussion to its core, moving beyond the state to a larger understanding of the impact civilization has had upon our lives and our planet. Meshing emerging philosophy, anthropology, social and ecological critiques, Zerzan opens up an entirely new set of questions regarding how society went from the universal egalitarian gatherer-hunter societies to the oppressively distanced technosphere. No stone is left unturned as our most basic understandings of the world and means of interaction are drawn into question. From symbolic thought through agriculture and onto industrialization, the questions asked within demand that we no longer remain passive observers of our created reality, and that we break the mold of domestication and turn against this civilization that has taken so much from us. This book contains Zerzan's most fundamental attacks on the roots of civilization and its dehumnanizing impacts. -cover