anticivilizational
Anticivilizational is a term used to describe ideas, critiques, or movements that oppose or challenge modern civilization in its dominant forms. It typically refers to a stance that civilization, especially industrialization, urbanization, technology, and centralized governance, has produced social, ethical, environmental, and psychological problems. The label is applied across disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, environmental ethics, and political theory, rather than designating a single systematic school of thought.
Origins and usage vary. In academic and activist contexts, anticivilizational critique may argue that civilization generates
Prominent discussions often reference thinkers who critique technological society or centralized power, such as anarchist or
See also: primitivism, anarchism, technocracy, ecological civilization, decolonial critique.