John Zerzan

John Zerzan (born in 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works speaks about agricultural civilization. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time. His five major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005) and Twilight of the Machines (2008). Zerzan is currently one of the editors of Green Anarchy, a journal of anarcho-primitivist and insurrectionary anarchist thought.

Related pages
 List of anarchists

Other websites
John Zerzan's website
Green Anarchy web site 
Insurgent Desire – John Zerzan writings and interviews can be read online
Primitivism.com  – Writings by Zerzan and other primitivist authors and essayists
Creel Commission  – June 2006 conversation with John Zerzan and the UK band
Guide to John Zerzan's papers at the University of Oregon
John Zerzan's Turkish articles

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Category:People from Salem, Oregon
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