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	John Zerzan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zerzan's theories draw on Theodor Adorno's concept of negative dialectics to construct a theory of civilization as the cumulative construction of alienation.
		Zerzan is an anarchist, and is broadly associated with the tendencies known as green anarchy, anti-civ, anarcho-primitivism and post-left anarchy.
		Zerzan was born in 1943 in Oregon to immigrants of Bohemian heritage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Zerzan (2633 words)

	JOHN ZERZAN AND THE PRIMITIVE CONFUSION
		Zerzan wants to paint an idyllic picture of the origins of humanity: he is going therefore to seek the elements that will permit him to paint this picture.
		Zerzan could have also explored another course in order to prove his hypothesis (by the way, it is quite scandalous all the same that we are forced to do this work instead of him).
		Zerzan points out, by quoting Binford that "the question to ask is not why agriculture did not develop everywhere but rather why it developed in the first place." And this is really the question, to which our ideologue is careful not to try to answer.
	www.geocities.com /cordobakaf/zerzan_confusion.html (7000 words)

	Membership has its privileges
		Zerzan moves on, however, to a point that is not at all elementary.
		Zerzan is right, of course, that (corporate and sexist and racist) divisions of labor have buttressed hierarchy, imposed dependency, and impeded autonomy.
		Thus, Zerzan says, “it seems evident that industrialization and the factories could not be gotten rid of instantly, but equally clear that their liquidation must be pursued with all the vigor behind the rush of break-out.
	www.zmag.org /zerzan.htm (2469 words)

	John Zerzan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Zerzan John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author.
		Zerzan was born in 1943 in Oregon, the son of Bohemian immigrants.
		Zerzan became an outspoken supporter, arguing that while the taking of human life was certainly objectionable one could hardly portray Kaczynski's Manifesto as insanity, saying that it was rather a highly cogent and insightful critique of Civilization.
	john-zerzan.borgfind.com (954 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Profile of American anarchist John Zerzan
		John Zerzan is sweeping the porch of his small cabin-style home in the university town of Eugene, Oregon.
		Zerzan is an anarchist author who believes that our culture is on a death march and that technology in all its forms must be resisted.
		Zerzan has been described by critics as one of those anarchists who "carry a fl flag in one hand and a welfare cheque in the other", to which he replies that he doesn't know anyone on welfare.
	www.guardian.co.uk /mayday/story/0,7369,475181,00.html (2061 words)

	Anarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zerzan is correct in quoting those who claim that we will never know the origins of language, but perhaps the Neanderthals may make a case against Zerzan's critique of language.
		At times, it seems as though John Zerzan is creating a unilineal scale of civilized evolution, begining with the invention of symbolic thought, and then language, art, numbers, time, agriculture, etc. Since these things increasingly stretch back in time, it may seem as though civilization was inevitable.
		John Zerzan's critique, especially of symbolic thought and language, is extremely interesting, and it generates much thought.
	flag.blackened.net /radicalanthropology/notes/anthrozerzan.htm (1255 words)

	Definition of John Zerzan
		He slowly came to the conclusion, along with many other anarchist theorists, that civilization itself was at the root of the problem's of the world and that a hunter-gatherer form of society presented the most egalitarian model for human relations with themselves and the natural world.
		Another significant event that shot Zerzan to activist celebrity status was his association with members of the Eugene, Oregon anarchist scene that later were the driving force behind the Black Bloc at the 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, Washington.
		Zerzan is married to an archivist for the University of Oregon and resides in the Whitaker neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/John_Zerzan (892 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Zerzan was born in 1943 in Oregon to immigrants from the Bohemia region of today's Czech Republic.
		Zerzan’s critique of technology might be said to attack the technological institution as a whole and the implications it has on society rather than the individual use of a given technology.
		For example, Zerzan uses sentences such as: "The constant urge or quest for the transcendent testifies that the hegemony of absence is a cultural constant." He also enjoys archaicisms, like using the verb "obtain" in its archaic sense of "to prevail" instead of its near-universal modern use of "to gain possession of."
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/John_Zerzan (2096 words)

	Belgrade Youth Cultural Centre - John Zerzan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Zerzan (1943), writer and theoretician, is probably the most famous if not than certainly the most controversial name on the anti-capitalist scene.
		Zerzan, from the point of abandoning each orbit, even the situationist one, resumed following scales and consequences of that fall from authentic living into linear (= working) Time, notion language, Number, symbolic representation and taming.
		This attack of what we learned to accept as the most precious tradition of progress, the most brilliant sign of civilized mind and the basic prerequisites of "normal" life, was the "surplus" that caused such tumultuous and panic reactions in all children of Mother Civilization, regardless of the ideological differences.
	www.dob.co.yu /english/zerzan.htm (713 words)

	John Zerzan's "Running on Emptiness"
		Moreover, Zerzan believes that civilization is a malignant virus, seeking to fill any vacuum it might find by means of the techniques of religion and capitalism—and, like a fever, it will burn itself out.
		It is also easy to critique Zerzan's Romantic conception of early people as noble savages: Mass extinctions followed the first Paleolithic incursions into North America, millennia before any evidence of agriculture, and many scientists have argued convincingly that differentiation in sex roles, has a biological, not a cultural, basis.
		Still, though Zerzan may not deal fully with the scientific record, many of his ideas, particularly about power and its techniques, are utterly compelling.
	www.corporatemofo.com /stories/030429zerzan.htm (562 words)

	Enemy of the State / John Zerzan
		Zerzan has been tearing at the underpinnings of our culture for twenty-five years now, but he's best known for his most recent books, Elements of Refusal (soon to be reissued by C.A.L. Press) and Future Primitive (Autonomedia).
		My conversation with Zerzan, at his home in Eugene, Oregon, was as free-form as I might have expected of a meeting between two anarchists.
		Zerzan: In part through observing existing foraging peoples - those few we've not yet eliminated - and watching their egalitarian ways disappear under the pressures of habitat destruction and, often, direct coercion or murder.
	greenfield.fortunecity.com /crawdad/213/eots.html (2631 words)

	Interview--John Zerzan
		John Zerzan may well be the most extreme author on the planet.
		For Zerzan, humanity's fall from grace did not commence with industrialism nor even with agriculture, but in the embrace of symbolic culture, i.e., language, art, and number.
		With the advent of a world based on biotechnology and genetic engineering, Zerzan may stand in the tradition of the Taoist sages, Diogenes, and Rousseau as the last of the great exponents of the unfettered wild man--or perhaps he's the first in a new tradition whose impact has yet to be seen.
	www.primitivism.com /zerzan.htm (3508 words)

	Reading Reaction 1-Anarchy
		Zerzan talked of a time, about ten thousand years ago, when agriculture arose.
		I believe Zerzan made a very good point about how we are conditioned to live in our culture.
		Zerzan spoke of time and said "A second of time is nothing, and to grant it independent existence runs counter to our experience of life" (pg6).
	members.tripod.com /~quitit/id113.htm (622 words)

	Gettingit.com: Anarchist Superstar
		As I gather it, John wants you to SMASH that TV, Cuisinart and computer, sever your Internet connection, unplug your stereo, put your car up on blocks, turn off the electricity, destroy the supermarket, dig a well, throw your shit onto the compost pile, start subsistence farming and staunch your menstrual flow with moss.
		John was part of a major 60 Minutes II profile on the Eugene, Oregon, anarchists alleged to have played an integral role in the controversial trashing of downtown Seattle.
		John and I met at the hippie-esque Bagel Bakery near his quaint cottage in Eugene.
	www.gettingit.com /article/468 (849 words)

	You May Be an Anarchist -And Not Even Know It (Features) Derrick Jensen
		Indeed, John Zerzan, whose ideas were very influential with some of the young protesters, can now credibly claim the decidedly dubious honor of being America’s most famous anarchist.
		Zerzan cites Jean-François Steiner’s study of the German concentration camp at Treblinka as a book that instilled him with the sense that people in even the direst situation could—and did—revolt.
		Zerzan’s views pose a challenge even to many young radicals and aging flower children.
	www.utne.com /pub/2001_105/features/1978-1.html (1339 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Zerzan - The Mass Psychology of Misery
		John Zerzan - Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender
		Zerzan has also on occasion quoted others to claim that, for example, 'the Bushmen… can see four moons of Jupiter with the unaided eye' and that there exists 'telepathic communication among the !Kung in Africa'.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=John_Zerzan (2170 words)

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		John Zerzan is the founder and leading thinker of anarcho-primitivism, a tendency within anarchism that is based in deep ecology rather than the economic and social theories of classical anarchism.
		Zerzan believes that all of the ills of modern society originate in humanity’s adoption of symbolic thought, leading (he and others postulate) to language, division of labor, agriculture, animal domestication, and eventually to the gamut of problems the world faces today.
		Zerzan’s ideas in and of themselves are provocative and worthy of discussion.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/211/culture.html (2477 words)

	Amazon.com: Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization: Books: John Zerzan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Zerazan has put together a philosophy that enables us to understand and connect the insanitiy that is playing out before our very lifetimes.
		Anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan's book "Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization" is a collection of essays written between the years 1992-2001.
		Zerzan argues that cancer was "unknown before civilization" but it's impossible to know that--there may have been less cancer, but we can't assume there was NO cancer.
	amazon.com /Running-Emptiness-Civilization-John-Zerzan/dp/092291575X (2428 words)

	disinformation \| running on emptiness: the pathology of civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, I enjoy the challenge John poses of soberly looking at whatever banal assumptions I may make about how convenient and carefree technology has made my life.
		Such freedom from technological spell casting is evident in Zerzan's obvious command of philosophy, the depth and breadth of his research and in his ability to breathe vitality into such stolid behemoths as dialectical State apologist Kant, the 'Crypto-Aryan' Heidegger, the Frankfurt Schoolboys Adorno, Walter Benjamin and others.
		Zerzan doesn't hesitate to take on such Sacred Cows of the left as Noam Chomsky, challenging the MIT professor's views on the origins of language making capabilities in humans as being crassly reductionistic and dehumanizing.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/review/id2216/pg1/index.html (467 words)

	Is primitivism realistic? An anarchist reply to John Zerzan and others - International Anarchist movement - Anarkismo
		And while Zerzan may have forgotten Jensen he does know him - at least he was interviewed by him in 2000 (9) and the 10,000 word interview that was published which would suggest they have at least spent some hours in each others company.
		The ball is really in Zerzan's court; he needs to demonstrate a mechanism for a non-compulsory and rapid reduction in population that would require the vast majority of the earth's population to be happy to have no children at all.
		Zerzan is happy to do a lengthy interview with someone who says he wants "civilization brought down and I want it brought down now" without even bringing the consequences of such a position up with them.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=1890 (14146 words)

	John Zerzan and Kevin Tucker lecture - WikiPaltz
		Join anarcho-primitivist thinkers and writers, Kevin Tucker and John Zerzan for a discussion of the origins of civilization and their consequences from the beginnings of settled societies through the culture of cities and into our current globalized modernity.
		John Zerzan is an anarcho-primitivist thinker and writer from Eugene, OR.
		Having written on the subjects of civilization, symbolic thought, domestication, and the misery and failures of daily life over two decades, he has earned his role as one of the most important anarchist thinkers.
	www.wikipaltz.com /wiki/John_Zerzan_and_Kevin_Tucker_lecture (280 words)

	Anarchist: gut rules, get rid of property - November 18, 2003 - Pipe Dream on the Web
		Discrediting stereotypical capitalist views left and right (but mostly left), world-renowned anarchist John Zerzan spoke last night to BU students.
		Some students felt that Zerzan, for someone who feels so strongly about his ideas, seemed to be put on his heels by the inquisitive crowd.
		Zerzan, who is said to be "America's Most Famous Anarchist," is the author of Future Primitive and Running on Emptiness, and frequently contributes to Adbusters and Green Anarchy.
	www.bupipedream.com /111803/news/n5.htm (623 words)

	John Zerzan, "Enemy of the State"
		The following interview with John Zerzan is by Derrick Jensen, who describes himself as an "anarcho-primitivist writer." He is also an officer or director of several advocacy groups.
		John Zerzan is the author of Elements of Refusal (CAL Press/Paleo Editions, 1999, 2nd edition – first edition originally published by Left Bank Books, 1988) and Future Primitive (Autonomedia, 1994).
		John Zerzan: I would say Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate all forms of domination.
	www.cdfe.org /zerzan_enemy_of_the_state.htm (9175 words)

	The manifesto won the admiration of John Zerzan
		Zerzan, 56, is considered one of the most influential of today's anarchist thinkers.
		Zerzan has produced an influential series of essays in which he denounces consumerism and technology as contemporary forms of slavery.
		Zerzan equivocates about the use of violence to bring about a kinder, simpler society based on the classic anarchist model: small, independent communities that operate without elected leaders.
	www.unabombers.com /News/00-06-03-Otttawa-Zerzan-4.htm (2518 words)

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