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The Garden of Peculiarities Paperback – November 1, 2005

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  • Paperback: 143 pages
  • Publisher: Feral House (November 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932595082
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932595086
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsBloody Brilliant
By eurydike on January 12, 2007
Format: Paperback
The primary twenty-first century anarchist essay for dismantling the current paradigm, and shattering the Capitalist structures of Control.

Discard the Internet. It is not a tool of Democracy, it is grassroots technological enslavement.

Recycle your laptop. Plant a garden.

Keep it peculiar.
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1.0 out of 5 starsForget this one
By Richard Reese (author of Sustainable or Bust) on May 16, 2008
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This book is nearly impossible to read, and it is not worth the effort. It's either a poor translation, or the original text was badly in need of radical improvement. I'm amazed that someone published this. It needs a complete rewrite by someone who is skilled with English -- combined with a great editor.
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2.0 out of 5 starsBeyond repair
By Stephen P. Smith on April 14, 2010
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Sepulveda (page 17) expresses his typical disdain for authority: "The institutional propaganda of school and the authoritarianism of expert scientific voice have impelled civilized populations to internalize the notion of the monolithic subject whose incorporeal identity reifies itself into an expansive ego, thus reproducing the instrumental logic of colonizing western thought."

Sepulveda (page 23) calls his readers to: "refashion your perspective to appreciate day, night, the seasons, waves, the potency of rivers, the birds` songs, the movement of animals, the woods, bees, women, men, and all of the constellations of peculiarities that form other constellations of peculiarities and that spring savagely like orchids in the forest." Beyond these small islands of poetry, there is little else in "The Garden of Peculiarities" to recommend. Sepulveda`s book is beyond repair.

Sepulveda (page 26) again expresses his typical disdain for authority: "Schools and factories are centers of control imposed by the state. In order to abolish the state, it is necessary to abolish factories and schools. The authoritarianism that the civilized order reproduces in these institutions is responsible for ethnic cleansing, political genocide, and social exploitation. In order to construct a world without hierarchies, jails, propaganda, or coups, it is necessary to sweep away the state. And it depends on us to wipe it off the face of the earth."

Sepulveda (page 35) expresses his disdain for employment: "The imposition of work as a tortuous activity, or justifying action of hypocritical and self-righteous pragmatism, is a way of assuring domestication. Salaried work assures the territorialization of entire populations in zones delimited by authoritarian institutions.Read more ›
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