2009 conference mp3s: Open forum with John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahim

MP3s of the Open Forum discussions with John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahim from this year’s anarchism and Christianity conference are now available.

The Open Forum is an unstructured time at the Jesus Radicals conference for people to gather for conversation based on shared interests. This year, Layla and John agreed to have an extended conversation with attendees who were interested in their presentations, their critique of civilization and their work on alienation, domestication and anarcho-primitivism more broadly. In the first discussion, which rand for an hour and eighteen minutes, participants asked a range of questions, leading to rich discussions on everything from violence and property destruction to Derrida and post-modernism to children’s literature and zoos–and that’s in the first half-hour.

Layla and John also participated in an additional Open Forum conversation with several participants. The thirty-three minute discussion also touched on a number of issues, including international development, parenting, adoption and teaching among others.

These are the first MP3s from the conference that have been edited to get the best audio quality possible. More will be added to the conference MP3 page in the coming weeks.

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