John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher. He is the author of 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).

John Zerzan

Ben Etherington is senior lecturer in postcolonial and world literary studies in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He holds honours degrees in Musicology and English from the University of Western Australia. He was awarded a General Sir John Monash Award to undertake an MPhil and PhD in English at the University of Cambridge, where he was later a Faculty of English research fellow. His publications include&nbsp;Literary Primitivism&nbsp;(Stanford, 2018), the&nbsp;Cambridge Companion to World Literature&nbsp;(2018, co-edited with Jarad Zimbler), and&nbsp;Unsettled Poetics: Contemporary Australian and South African Poetry&nbsp;(special issue of&nbsp;Wasafiri&nbsp;magazine). His current project, on the poetics of creole verse, takes him regularly to the Caribbean and particularly Jamaica.

Ben Etherington

Letter to the Editor: John Zerzan and Ben Etherington

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

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John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher. He is the author of 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).