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

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. "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 (...)

ZERZAN, John. "Culture"

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

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. "Feral"

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

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. "Progress"

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

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. "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. "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," (...)

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