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John Zerzan

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born

January 01, 1942 in Salem, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.johnzerzan.net/

genre

Politics, Social Sciences, Philosophy

influences

Theodore Kaczynski

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American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.

His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like.

Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.

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Books by John Zerzan

Average rating: 3.71 · 426 ratings · 39 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections 381 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization by John Zerzan, Theresa Kintz (Introduction) 364 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Future Primitive: And Other Essays 376 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Elements of Refusal 344 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Twilight of the Machines 356 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Questioning Technology: Tool, Toy or Tyrant? by John Zerzan (Editor), Alice Carnes (Editor), Jacques Ellul (Contribution by) 425 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Anarhoprimitivizam protiv civilizacije 467 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Origins: A John Zerzan Reader 367 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Psychology of Mass Misery 500 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Aux sources de l'aliénation 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”
― John Zerzan, Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization

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“I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?”
― John Zerzan

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“God first created silence: whole, indivisible, complete. All creatures--man, woman, beast, insect, bird, and fish--lived happily together with this silence until one day man and woman lay down together and between them created the first word. This displeased God deeply and in anger she shook out her bag of words over the world, sprinkling and showering her creation with them. Her word store rained down upon all creatures, shattering forever the whole that once was silence. God cursed the world with words and forever after it would be a struggle for man and woman to return to the original silence. --Marlene Nourbese Philip”
― John Zerzan, Twilight of the Machines

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