# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-zerzan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:15.084Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-zerzan"
name: "John Zerzan"
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description: "John Edward Zerzan is an American anarcho-primitivist author and radio host. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication and symbolic thought."
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birthDate: "1943-08-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump