What is John Zerzan?
{{Infobox Person | name = John Zerzan | image = John Zerzan - mod.jpg | caption = Zerzan in [[Belgrade]], [[Serbia]] | birth_date = 1943 | birth_place = [[Salem, Oregon]], [[United States]] | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Philosopher, author | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''John Zerzan''' (born in 1943) is an [[Americans|American]] [[anarchism|anarchist]] and [[anarcho-primitivism|primitivist]] [[philosopher]] and author. His works speaks about [[agriculture|agricultural]] [[civilization]]. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging [[domestication]], [[language]], [[Anarcho-primitivism#A Critique of Symbolic Culture|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== *[http://www.johnzerzan.net John Zerzan's website] *[http://www.greenanarchy.org Green Anarchy web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217105625/http://greenanarchy.org/ |date=2014-12-17 }} *[http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk Insurgent Desire] – John Zerzan writings and interviews can be read online *[http://www.primitivism.com Primitivism.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104063225/http://primitivism.com/ |date=2014-01-04 }} – Writings by Zerzan and other primitivist authors and essayists *[http://www.creelcommission.com/interviews.php Creel Commission] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206113718/http://www.creelcommission.com/interviews.php |date=2010-02-06 }} – June 2006 conversation with John Zerzan and the UK band *[http://nwda