ZERZAN, John (1943 - ). Anarchiste américain. Philosophe primitiviste et auteur

Articles

JENSEN, Derrick. "Enemy of the State. Derrick Jensen interviews John Zerzan".

"Considering that our culture is the only one to ever invent napalm or nuclear weapons, I’m not sure we’re in much of a moral place to comment on (…)

ZERZAN, John. "What is anarchism?"

"Two developments have become rather clear over the past ten years or so: (1) opposition to the status quo has become increasingly "anarchist," (…)

ZERZAN, John. "Tonality and the Totality"

" Like language, tonality is historically characterized by its unfreedom. We are made tonal by society: only in the elimination of that society (…)

ZERZAN, John. "The Mass Psychology of Misery"

Quite a while ago, just before the upheavals of the ’60s-shifts that have not ceased, but have been forced in less direct, less public directions (…)

ZERZAN, John. "Progress"

"Science, the model of progress, has imprisoned and interrogated nature, while technology has sentenced it (and humanity) to forced labor."

ZERZAN, John. "Language: Origin and Meaning".

"the essence of learning a language is learning a system, a model, that shapes and controls speaking. It is easier still to see ideology on this (…)

ZERZAN, John. "Feral"

"Radical environmentalists appreciate that the turning of national forests into tree farms is merely a part of the overall project that also seeks (…)

ZERZAN, John. "The Division of Labor"

Meanwhile, the continuing myths of the "neutrality" and "inevitability" of technological development are crucial to fitting everyone to the yoke (…)

ZERZAN, John. "Culture"

"cynicism will remain as long as we allow culture to remain in lieu of unmediated life."

ZERZAN, John. "Community".

"In truth, there is no community. And only by abandoning what is passed off in its name can we move on to redeem a vision of communion and vibrant (…)

ZERZAN, John. "Against Technology"

"Technology claims that it extends the senses; but this extension, it seems, ends up blunting and atrophying the senses, instead of what this (…)

Zerzan, John. "Anarchy after September 11"

"For those in the U.S. on the threshold of adult life, suicide is the third leading cause of death. For every two murders there are three (…)