Anarchist by Design: Technology and Human Nature - Softcover

Seely, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989233715 ISBN 13: 9780989233712

Publisher: OldDog Books, 2013

Synopsis

The technological order-the expanding web of physical technologies and bureaucratic systems of control that we call global civilization-exists despite our evolutionary preparation for a distinctly different kind of society: communities of near equals in which participation is voluntary. Anarchy-society founded on organic and direct relations with others, unmediated by artificial systems of power and authority-is the natural and preferred social state for human beings. Anarchist by Design promotes the intentional dismantling of technological society, not merely to provide relief from the corrosive effects it has on individual freedom, and not to be replaced by something else, but in order to allow natural modes of social organization-underwritten by evolved psychological systems that continue to limp along beneath the surface, deformed, repressed, and misdirected-to have healthy and unfettered expression.

About this edition

• Publisher: OldDog Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0989233715
• ISBN 13: 9780989233712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240