Against Civilization: the writings of Wolfi Landstreicher (aka Feral Faun, Apio Ludd)

In this class we will read and discuss a few of the writings of Wolfi Landstreicher. In an introduction to a collection of their writings, Wolfi describes the anarchist insurgence underlying their writings as follows:

"Within the present social context our lives as individuals have been made alien to us, because society creates interactions and activities for us which are not based on the singularity of our unconstrained dreams and desires, but only serve the continuing reproduction of society by channeling the energy of desire into that reproduction through a variety of institutions and systems which integrate to form civilized society: the state, capital, work, technology, religion, education, ideology, law...Opposition to this begins when we as individuals rise up in willful disobedience and recognize the necessity of attacking and destroying all institutions of domination, not as a cause, but for ourselves, because we want to create our own games..."

We will meet three times over the course of three weeks to discuss their writings and hopefully discuss our own desires and how they are redirected to serve institutional systems and how we may break free of this to create our lives according to our own passions.

Reading Schedule(tentatively):

Week 1 "Feral Faun"
-Nature as Spectacle. The image of wilderness vs. wildness
-The Cops In Our Heads: Some thoughts on anarchy and morality
-The Ideology of Victimization
-Against Charity
-Steal Back Your Life
-Social Transformation — or the abolition of society
-Feral Revolution
-The Last Word
-Whither Now? Some Thoughts on Creating Anarchy

Week 2 "Wolfi Landstreicher"
-How Then Do We Go Feral
-Against the Logic of Submission
-The Network of Domination
-Desire Armed: Anarchy and the Creative Impulse

Week 3 "Apio Ludd"
-Resolute playfulness

This class will meet at a time to be determined by an online poll completed by class participants. Class will meet at Hard Times, Boneshaker Books, Minnehaha Free Space or another Minneapolis location.