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Title: John Moore, 1957–2002
Author: John Connor
Date: 2003
Language: en
Topics: John Moore, obituary, primitivist
Source: Retrieved on January 1, 2005 from http://www.greenanarchist.org
Notes: from Green Anarchist #68–69, Summer 2003

John Connor

John Moore, 1957–2002

Formative British anti-Civilisation theorist and poet John Moore

collapsed on his way to work as a lecturer in Creative Writing at the

University of Luton last 30^(th) October 2002.

Originally writing from an autonomist perspective, John was heavily

influenced by anarcho-primitivist Fredy Perlman, particularly his

early-1980s mythopaeic classic ‘Against His-Story, Against Leviathan’.

John’s key pamphlets ‘Anarchy & Ecstacy’ and ‘Love Bite’ challenged

boundary distinctions in almost every respect, certainly concerning

authorial authority. These pamphlets employment of myth to this end was

widely misunderstood, particularly by wilfully literal-minded reviewers

at ‘5^(th) Estate’, which led John to even more determined attempts to

subvert the authoratitive voice through ‘The Book of Levelling’ and

poetry emphasising cultural challenges to the Totality.

John played a big role in the Anarchist Research Group throughout the

1980s and also founded the Anarcho-Primitivist Network following the

1993 Anarchy in the UK festival in London, publishing the‘Primitivist

Primer’, an instant classic still in wide circulation today. APN counted

editors of ‘Do Or Die’ and ‘Green Anarchists’ amongst its enthusiastic

participants, and so was influential in the ‘green wave’ of

eco-radicalism that characterised the mid-1990s. John’s contacts ranged

through Lorraine Perlman to the editors of ‘Freedom’, dealing with each

with good humour and principle.

John was erudite, generous and brave. He left us all too early and with

much still to say, and has already received tributes from the likes of

John Zerzan, the ‘Black Badger’ and the editors of ‘Anarchy:A Journal of

Desire Armed’. He leaves his widow and co-worker, Leigh Starcross, and

will be much missed.