[P2P-F] stonehenge as counterrevolution and the paleolithic sex strike

[Amaia Arcos]

Sounds fascinating. For my birthday I would like an extra brain and 50 hour
days. The ability to stop time (or perception of it) and/or being able to
read (and digest information) at the speed of light could be a suitable
alternative.

Thanks for sharing! Not sure how, but I definitely want to read all this
properly..

On 10 September 2011 06:51, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

> thanks for the details, very useful ..
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Andy Robinson <ldxar1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Chris Knight is quite a famous figure here.  He's involved in
>> street-theatre protests.  He got purged from his university for supporting
>> the G20 protests (mixture of managerial fascism and gutter press witch-hunt)
>> and ended up in exile for awhile, though he seems to be back now, and was
>> arrested pre-emptively before the Royal Wedding.  He is or was also
>> associated with Labour Left Briefing (a post-Trotskyite group in the Labour
>> Party).  He's been promoting this same theory Sims adopts for some time,
>> i.e. the serpent/dragon symbolises a solidarity strike by women which
>> founded humanity by destroying patriarchy/individualism, and all this linked
>> in with moon cycle symbolism as well.  He's put some of his stuff online
>> here:  http://www.chrisknight.co.uk/  Camilla Power, the other person
>> named here, is Knight's partner, and also an anthropology professor.  The
>> Radical Anthropology Group has all the hallmarks of being Knight's
>> fanclub/brainchild, their website is here:
>> http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/new/Home.html  and they also link
>> to this site: http://www.lunarchy.org/lunarchy.org/Home.html  TBH I'd
>> never comes across the group before you sent me the email, which suggests
>> they don't have much of a following in anthropology.  They're coming from a
>> very particular niche I think, a kind of Marxist evolutionism, which is very
>> much at odds with where most radical anthropologists would situate
>> themselves nowadays (poststructuralist / postcolonial / power-analysis), and
>> also apparently unconnected to the "anti-civ" people using anthropology in
>> relation to radical green activism (who are very much not Marxists).
>> They're probably a bit of a groupuscle, and they almost seem to be creating
>> a new belief-system with its own narrative of origins, fall and recurrence,
>> somewhere between Marxism and New Age.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for the reply ... would you have any resources related to the
>>> radical anthropology group?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Andy Robinson <ldxar1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hiya,
>>>>
>>>> Sims is new to me, but this sounds very similar to Engels' position, and
>>>> also to Zerzan.  Things get very speculative that far back, and most
>>>> anthropologists leave this stuff to archaeologists nowadays, partly because
>>>> of the reflexive turn in anthropology.  The main quibble I'd raise is that,
>>>> while some hunter-gatherer groups are recorded as gender-egalitarian, others
>>>> are not (e.g. Sambia, Guarani, Yanomami), and on the other hand, some
>>>> sedentary pastoralists are gender-egalitarian or tend towards women's power
>>>> (Ladakh, Manipur).  Also, there isn't much evidence for rule by women at any
>>>> point, and the whole transition from ape to man thing is dubious.  We're
>>>> talking transition from extinct early hominids whose social life we know
>>>> next to nothing about; people in the Engelsian tradition (and social
>>>> Darwinists also) extrapolate from chimps (which are patriarchal and
>>>> aggressive), but we're actually more closely related to Bonobos, which are
>>>> also communistic, egalitarian and arguably matriarchal.  Also I'm fairly
>>>> sure the "incest taboo led to intelligence" thing is falsified by animal
>>>> breeding experiments, though I don't know the details.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michel Bauwens <
>>>> michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> see
>>>>> http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/old/pub_knight_power_watts_big.pdfand read it with
>>>>> http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/old/pub_knight_power_watts_big.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> really interesting stuff about the origins of class society and the
>>>>> hunter-gathering to agriculture switch
>>>>>
>>>>> Michel
>>>>>
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