John Zerzan

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,687x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,358x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,340x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,860x

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Quotes

• “If we once — and for so long — lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that’s overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history.”
• “Agriculture has been and remains a “catastrophe” at all levels, the one which underpins the entire material and spiritual culture of alienation now destroying us. Liberation is impossible without its dissolution”
• “Domestication involved the initiation of production, vastly increased divisions of labor, and the completed foundations of social stratification. This amounted to an epochal mutation both in the character of human existence and its development, clouding the latter with ever more violence and work.”
• “Logically, humanity itself will also become a domesticate of this order as the world of production processes us as much as it degrades and deforms every other natural system.”
• “Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.”
• “Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependent on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”

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Key facts

Born

August 10, 1943 ( 1943-08-10 ) (age 82), Salem, Oregon , U.S.

Alma mater

Stanford University San Francisco State University University of Southern California

Era

Contemporary philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Anarcho-primitivism , post-left anarchy

Main interests

Hunter-gatherer society , civilization , alienation , symbolic culture , technology, mass society

Notable ideas

Domestication of humans, rewilding

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Official website

www.johnzerzan.net

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