John Zerzan
Zerzan grew up in Salem, Oregon. He took degrees in political science at Stanford and history at San Francisco State, then, after a stint as an organizer with a union of social services employees, took postgraduate studies at the University of Southern California. He was active in conventional left-wing politics and was arrested in 1966 for demonstrating against the Vietnam War.
Nearly 20 years ago he moved north to Eugene, OR. The spotlight first shone on him in 1997 when it emerged that he had visited the Unabomber in jail and that the two shared many beliefs. Interest in Zerzan and his own opposition to that brave new world intensified after Seattle WTO protests in 1999. He still lives in Eugene, OR, and remains perhaps the best-known anarcho-primitivist philosopher in the world.
Books
- Elements of Refusal
- Questioning Technology
- Future Primitive
- Against Civilization
- Running on Emptiness
- Twilight of the Machines
