Comparing 'Dark Mountain Manifesto And Twilight Of The Machine'

Question 3: By contrast, to me neo-primitivism seems to provide the most useful approach to providing a useful orientation toward life, because it brings together the relationship with mankind and the entire planet. I believe this concept not only just looks at the origins of civilization but it also provides an understanding of direction in which the planet is heading by providing a sustainable way for survival. I also believe that is the best way of putting science in check. This approach allows for the individual to incorporate their own experiences in their own terms, versus accepting other’s ideas as fact. Zerzan’s “Twilight of the Machine” and Kingsnorth and Hine’s, “Dark Mountain Manifesto” provides a great example, they both reject …show more content…
It questions the myths of civilization and nature, the myth of progress and at same time informs us about the mess that we really are in. It’s the most useful because it keeps us all engaged with ecological, social and economic crisis of our time, without sheltering the truth. It’s the complete opposite of capitalism. “The Dark Mountain Manifesto” is based on the observation that this appearance stability that we all are living is delusive. “The pattern of ordinary life, in which so much stays the same from one day to the next," the authors write, "disguises the fragility of its fabric." It aims to demolish contemporary beliefs about progress, industrialism and man’s place on the planet. The human future, it seems to the authors, must lie in "un-civilization". The most useful response is not to await disaster in the hope that the difficulties will magically …show more content…
What I liked most about Foucault was his views on how our thoughts are given shape in society by the acceptance of the various frameworks given by history and man. His two biggest points that interests me the most, was his concept of “othering” and his understanding of power. Foucault argued that the process of “othering” has to do with power, acting through knowledge in order to achieve a particular political agenda in the goal for domination. He also goes in great detail about the process by which people are constructed by those in power. In Foucault: Discipline & The Self – The Poststructuralist Critique of Marxism: he stresses universality rather than singularity, similarity rather than difference. Foucault believed that history was a process of self-realization and that one history for everyone could only be achieved by excluding all other histories, and the exclusion of others could only he lead to