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Kevin Tucker
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
OccupationAuthor, musician
SubjectsHunter-gatherer society, civilization, alienation, technology, collapse, ecology
Literary movementAnarcho-primitivism, rewilding, green anarchism
SpouseNatasha Tucker

Kevin Tucker is an anarcho-primitivist writer and speaker who lives in rural Pennsylvania. He is the founding editor of Wild Resistance: A Journal of Primal Anarchy,[1] was the editor of Species Traitor,[2] an insurrectionary anarcho-primitivist journal, an editor and contributor to Green Anarchy magazine, and co-founder of the Black and Green Network.[3] He is the co-host of the Primal Anarchy podcast with his wife, the writer Natasha Tucker.[4]

Black and Green Press and FC Press put out a book of Tucker's writings in April 2010 called For Wildness and Anarchy[5] A second, revised and expanded edition came out on Black and Green Press in 2019.[6] He is also the author of Gathered Remains which was published by Black and Green Press in 2018 and The Cull of Personality which was published by Black and Green Press in 2019.[7][8]

He is also the guitarist/vocalist for anarcho-primitivist death metal band Peregrine.[9]

Early life

Kevin Tucker grew up in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, surrounded by protests against local corporations such as Monsanto.[10] He became involved in anarchism and hardcore punk around the same time and at age twelve started working on causes ranging from animal rights to Shell Oil's incursions upon Nigerian tribal lands. Simultaneously, he became an anarcho-syndicalist, straight edge and vegan.[11] Between 1998 and 2000, he switched his approach from anarcho-syndicalism to anarcho-primitivism. From 2000-2002, he worked at an animal sanctuary which contributed to him abandoning veganism.[3][11] He studied anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 2004.[3]

Views

Kevin Tucker is an anarcho-primitivist. His primary contributions to this ideology have been the expansion of anthropological understanding, focusing on the importance of spirituality and domestication, a deep critique of revolution, and the act of rewilding.[12] A common theme among Tucker's writings have been the consequences of domestication and sedentism among nomadic gather-hunters. The central argument being that human nature has been shaped by evolution in accordance with wildness, what Tucker calls "primal anarchy".[13] That "primal anarchy" is exemplified by nomadic gatherer-hunter life. By focusing on the changes brought about by various levels of domestication one can see the impacts of domestication and ultimately civilization.[14]

Tucker has written extensively regarding the impacts and plausibility of revolution.[15] Concluding that revolution will always be political in nature and therefore has no relevance to the destruction of civilization or further aid in its collapse. Focus has instead been turned towards what Tucker calls 'Primal War':[16] a notion based on rewilding and undermining domestication rather than hope for liberation through a historical event.

Tucker is a colleague of fellow anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan and the two have engaged on multiple speaking tours focusing on the origins of civilization and the consequences of domestication.[3]

As of 2019, Tucker has openly spoken about moving on from the term "anarcho-primitivist" in lieu of "primal anarchy." Stating:

It’s felt increasingly apparent that the name is a limitation, attaching itself to two different lineages—anarchism and primitivism—neither of which is necessarily fitting in its own right. Anarcho-primitivism becomes the square peg, tethered to sets of rules that are neither applicable nor useful. I’ve increasingly used another phrase: primal anarchy. As both anarchism and primitivism seem to quickly wither and decay on their own, I’m only finding more reasons to embrace that term entirely.[17]

Court hearing

Tucker received some attention in the media after being subpoenaed to a Grand Jury, as a part of the Green Scare round up of Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists;[18][19] a move Tucker called "harassment".[20] Even though he was not a suspect of committing any crime, he was questioned because the FBI believed he might have had some information on the actions of these organizations. He has stated that he has no knowledge of the ELF and the ALF, other than what is publicly known.[21]

Peregrine

Tucker's band Peregrine released its debut album The Agrarian Curse in 2008 and a split with Pittsburgh band Auryn the next year. Proceeds from the split with Auryn went to "folks facing jail time and courts in the Green Scare." Both were released on Andy Hurley's record label Fuck City.[22][23] In 2011, they released a split 7" with Sweden's Seeds in Barren Fields which was released by Crimethinc CZ.[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wild Resistance website
  2. ^ Black and Green Press website
  3. ^ a b c d O'Driscoll, Bill (2006-07-13). "Wild Times Ahead: Waiting for the End of Civilization with Anarcho-Primitivist Kevin Tucker". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  4. ^ Primal Anarchy podcast website
  5. ^ Black and Green Press myspaceFC Press website
  6. ^ Page for second edition of For Wildness and Anarchy
  7. ^ Page for Gathered Remains book
  8. ^ Page for Cull of Personality book
  9. ^ Mincemoyer, John. "Breaking Faces: Peregrine Archived 2009-09-11 at the Wayback Machine" (Issue 175, September 2008). Terrorizer
  10. ^ Carico, John (2015-10-28). "Interview with anarcho-primitivist Kevin Tucker". Thefifthcolumnnews.com. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  11. ^ a b "Interviews with Kevin Tucker". TheAnarchistLibrary.org. 2013-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  12. ^ See Species Traitor and Green Anarchy magazines.
  13. ^ 'Forest Beyond the Field', Species Traitor No. 4. Black and Green Press, 2005.
  14. ^ Catalyst: Birth and Death of Civilization, work-in-progress
  15. ^ Revolution and/or Insurrection, Species Traitor No. 3. Black and Green Press, 2003 and 'Message and the Messenger', 'Species Traitor No. 4'. Black and Green Press, 2005.
  16. ^ Species Traitor No. 4. Black and Green Press, 2005, this is also the theme of a number of essays published in Green Anarchy magazine
  17. ^ Kevin Tucker - To The Captives
  18. ^ "Radical environmentalist appears before grand jury in Erie". Erie Daily Times. 2008-09-09. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  19. ^ “Eco-Terrorism” Grand Jury Witch Hunt in PA, And Flashbacks of the Red Scare
  20. ^ Thompson, Lisa (September 2008). "Feds still probing attacks by Earth Liberation Front". Erie Times-News
  21. ^ "Eco-activist silent on grand jury appearance". Erie Daily Times. 2008-09-10. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
  22. ^ "Full Interview of Kevin Tucker for the Peregrine's article on Terrorizer". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
  23. ^ "Peregrine/Auryn: Green Scare Benefit Split" review, Terrorizer[permanent dead link‍]
  24. ^ Release on Peregrine bandcamp page
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