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{{Short description|American anarchist and primitivist philosopher}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
|region           = [[Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[Contemporary philosophy]]
|image            = John Zerzan, 2010 (cropped).jpg
|caption          = Zerzan in 2010
|name             = John Zerzan
|birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|August 10, 1943}}
|birth_place      = [[Salem, Oregon]], U.S.
|alma_mater       = {{plainlist|
*[[Stanford University]]
*[[San Francisco State University]]
*[[University of Southern California]]
}}
|school_tradition = [[Anarcho-primitivism]], [[post-left anarchy]]
|main_interests   = [[Hunter-gatherer society]], [[civilization]], [[Social alienation|alienation]], [[symbolic culture]], technology, [[mass society]]
|notable_ideas    = [[Domestication]] of humans, [[Rewilding (anarchism)|rewilding]]
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'''John Edward Zerzan''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɜr|z|ə|n}} {{respell|ZUR|zən}}; born August 10, 1943) is an [[American people|American]] [[anarchism|anarchist]] and [[anarcho-primitivism|primitivist]] [[author]]. His works criticize [[agricultural]] [[civilization]] as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of [[hunter-gatherer]]s as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include [[domestication]] and [[Anarcho-primitivism#Critique of mechanical time and symbolic culture|symbolic thought]] (such as [[language]], [[number]], [[art]] and the concept of [[time]]).

His six major books are ''Elements of Refusal'' (1988), ''[[Future Primitive and Other Essays]]'' (1994), ''Running on Emptiness'' (2002), ''Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections'' (2005), ''Twilight of the Machines'' (2008), and ''Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization'' (2015).

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