A General Anti-Tech Reading List

• Stop the Machines by Mauro Lubrano (2025)

• Rebels Against the Future (1995)

• The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism by Sean Fleming (2021)

• The Politics of Attack: Communiqués and Insurrectionary Violence by Michael Loadenthal

• Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism by Bron Taylor (2007)

• Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (Jun 2000)

• From the Unabomber to the Incels: Angry Young Men on Campus by Eileen Pollack

• Coyote in the Maze by Peter Quigley (1998)

• Earth First! Environmental Apocalypse by Martha F. Lee (1995)

• A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front (2019)

• Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe (2026)

• Burning Rage of a Dying Planet by Craig Rosebraugh (2004)

• A Shorter History of a Northwest E.L.F. Cell by Tides of Flame (2016)

• The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground by Vanessa Grigoriadis (2006)

• Children of Ted and a Response by John H. Richardson (2018)

• The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger

• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

• Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama

• The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton

• The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism by Roger Scruton

• Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin

• The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon (1995)

• Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (1990)

• The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann

• In Defense of Posthuman Dignity by Nick Bostrom

• Citizen Cyborg by James Hughes

• Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola

• The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon

• Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola

• Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma

• Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert

• New Nobility of Blood and Soil by Richard Walther Darré

• The Land and the People: The British Union Policy for Agriculture by Jorian Jenks

• Spring Comes Again by Jorian Jenks

• The Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi

• Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler

• The Way of Men by Jack Donovan

• Becoming A Barbarian by Jack Donovan

• The Metaphysics of Technology by David Skrbina (2014)

• Anti-Tech 101 by David Skrbina (2023)

• Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier

• Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism by Ted Kaczynski

• Against the Modern World by Mark Sedgwick

• Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola by Paul Furlong

• Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995)

• Hitler’s Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

• The Origins of the Organic Movement by Philip Conford

• Nature writing’s fascist roots by Richard Smyth

• Skrbina’s Creative Reconstruction vs. Kaczynski’s Anti-Tech Revolution (2023)

• Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski

• Technological Slavery by Ted Kaczynski

• Anti-Tech Revolution by Ted Kaczynski

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Eco-Centrist by Ted Kaczynski

• The System’s Neatest Trick by Ted Kaczynski

• Hit where it hurts by Ted Kaczynski

• Derrick Jensen Letters (1998–2000)

• Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski (1999)

• The Philosophy of Ted Kaczynski by Chad Haag (2019)

• The Hermeneutics of Ecological Limitation by Chad Haag

• Autopsy of Revolution by Jacques Ellul (1969)

• I Was a Teenage Luddite

• The Unabomber’s Ethics

• On the Unabomber

• More Technology, Not Less

• The Fictions of Ted Kaczynski

• Pyrotechnic Insanitarium; American Culture on the Brink

• The Philosophy of the Unabomber

• Hit Where It Hurts, but in the Meantime…

• On Deep Green Failures or The Problem of Inert Strategy

• Against Deep Green Resistance

• A Critique of Ted Kaczynski’s Anti-Tech Revolution by Ultimo Reducto (2018)

• Critical Comments on Ted Kaczynski’s “In Defense of Violence” by Ultimo Reducto

• Critical Comments on Ted Kaczynski’s “Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism” by Ultimo Reducto

• Human Ethology by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1989)

• The Natural and The Artefactual by Lee Keekok (1999)

• Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins by Konrad Lorenz

• Basic Requirements for Creating an Efficient Movement Against Technoindustrial Society by Ultimo Reducto

• Some Replies to an Anarcho-Vegan by Ultimo Reducto

• A Brief Comment on Pleistocene “Rewilding” by Ultimo Reducto

• With Friends Like These... (2009)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to Facundo Bermudez (2008)

• Atassa 1 and 2

• Regresion Magazine

• Ishi and the War Against Civilization

• Collateral Damage by Anonymous

• On eco-extremism and anarchy by Pack of saboteurs Heriberto Salazar (2016)

• There’s Nothing Anarchist about Eco-Fascism by Scott Campbell (2017)

• Not Our Comrades by Scott Campbell (2017)

• Eco-extremism and the Indiscriminate Attack by L (2017)

• Of Indiscriminate Attacks & Wild Reactions by Edelweiss Pirates (2017)

• Against Green Reactionaries (2020)

• Seek and Destroy Eco-Extremism Everywhere by Individualist Network & Indonesian Anarchist Black Cross (2021)

• Public Criticism of Individualities Tending to the Wild (2014)

• Some Comments on the Communiques from Individualists Tending toward the Wild by Ultimo Reducto (2015)

• Eco-Extremism or Extinctionism by John Jacobi (2017)

• Desert by Anonymous (2011)

• Against His-Story; Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman

• A Primitivist Primer by John Moore

• Against the Megamachine by David Watson (1997)

• Post Historic Primitivism by David Watson

• Uncivilized by Green Anarchy Collective (2012)

• Future Primitive by John Zerzan

• Against Civilization by John Zerzan (2005)

• Agents of Change: Primal War and the Collapse of Global Civilization by Kevin Tucker

• For Wildness and Anarchy by Kevin Tucker

• Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine

• Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins (2004)

• Against Domestication by Jacques Camatte (1973)

• Coming Home to the Pleistocene by Paul Shepard

• The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter

• Overshoot by William Catton

• The Long Descent by John Michael Greer

• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• The religion of green anarchy

• Medieval smokestacks: fossil fuels in pre-industrial times

• A Quick and Dirty Critique of Primitivist & Anti-Civ Thought

• 15 Post-Primitivist Theses

• The Politics of Postanarchism

• Bakunin Versus the Primitivists by Brian Oliver Sheppard (2002)

• Anarchism vs. Primitivism by Brian Oliver Sheppard (2003)

• Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (1995)

• Monkeywrenching Drives Me Nuts by George French

• Basic Principles of Deep Ecology by Arne Naess and George Sessions

• Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century by George Sessions

• The Religion and Politics of Earth First! by Bron Taylor

• Nature and Madness by Paul Shepard

• Thinking Like a Mountain by John Seed et al.

• Reinhabitation by Gary Snyder

• Gary Snyder and the Invention of Bioregional Spirituality and Politics by Bron Taylor

• Environmental Philosophy by Simon P. James

• The Presence of Nature by Simon P. James

• On Being None With Nature by John Clark

• Against Holism by Simon P. James

• Theses on Social Ecology and Deep Ecology by Janet Biehl

• Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement by Murray Bookchin

• Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us by Bill Joy (2000)

• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (1985)

• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

• Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner (1996)

• War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley (1996)

• The Ecological Indian by Shepard Krech

• Techno-Fix by Michael Huesemann and Joyce Huesemann (2011)

• Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan (2023)

• The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris (1969)

• Collapse by Jared Diamond (2013)

• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

• The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond (2012)

• Against the Grain by James C. Scott (2017)

• War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat (2006)

• The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla

• Enough by Bill McKibben

• The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Letters from Lake Como by Romano Guardini (1926)

• Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)

• Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford (1934)

• Presence in the Modern World by Jacques Ellul (1948)

• The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (1954)

• Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse (1955)

• Propaganda by Jacques Ellul (1962)

• The Technological Bluff by Jacques Ellul (1988)

• The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (1968)

• The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger (1977)

• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978)

• Shadow Work by Ivan Illich

• The Right to Useful Unemployment by Ivan Illich

• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)

• Walking by Henry David Thoreau (1862)

• The Best of Edward Abbey

— The Complete Works of John Muir

• Greenland Lies North

• The Land of Little Rain

• Desert Quartet

• Journal of a Trapper

• Life in the Rocky Mountains

• Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains

• The Last of The Mountain Men

• Campfire Tales of Jackson Hole

• The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin

• The Forest People by Colin Turnbull (1961)

• Wayward Servants by Colin Turnbull (1965)

• The Baka

• Nomads of the Long Bow

• My life with the Eskimos

• Among Congo Pigmies

• The Nuer

• Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America

• Indians of the United States

• Tribe by Bruce Parry (2008)

• Amazon by Bruce Parry (2008)

• Arctic by Bruce Parry (2011)

• Works and Days by Hesiod (700 BC)

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (500 BC)

• Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC)

• Idylls by Theocritus (280 BC)

• The Bhagavad-Gita by Various Authors (200 BC)

• Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War by Sallust (40 BC)

• Eclogues by Virgil (39 BC)

• Stoic Six Pack by Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca and Marcus Aurelius (180 AD)

• Neither Lord Nor Subject by Bao Jingyan (300 AD)

• Saga Six Pack (Beowulf, The Prose Edda and More) (750 AD)

• Kaianere’kó:wa by Haudenosaunee (1200)

• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier (compiles 12^th century texts)

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921)

• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

• The Kin by Peter Dickinson

• World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

• Retrotopia by John Michael Greer

• Quest for the Faradawn by Richard Ford

• Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

• The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (1975)

• Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather (1940)

• Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman