John Zerzan's work has been published in the theory journal TELOS, Oak Journal, the Detroit publication Fifth Estate, Eugene’s Green Anarchy, Species Traitor (anarcho-primitivist) and Black and Green Review. His books include Elements of Refusal (1988, 1998), Future Primitive (1994), Against Civilization (1999), Running on Emptiness (2002), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Origins: A John Zerzan Reader (2010), Future Primitive Revisited (2012), Why Hope? (2015) and A People's History of Civilization (2018), and the newest release, When We Are Human (2021).
An active participant in the contemporary anarchist resurgence, Zerzan has been an invited speaker at both radical and conventional events on several continents. His weekly Anarchy Radio broadcast streams live on KWVA radio, Eugene; past shows are available at his website. A special focus has been the nature of technology and the technological society.