Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. Zerzan also writes more general texts on anarchist, primitivist theory, and critiques of "postmodernism". Aside from Bookchin, several other anarchist critiques of Zerzan's primitivist philosophies exist. Georgian artists was primitivist painter Niko Pirosmani. For most primitivist anarchists, rewilding and reconnecting with the earth is a life project. A primitivist approach is exemplified by Carl Orff's widely performed "Carmina Burana". Economic anthropologists have abandoned the primitivist niche they were relegated to by economists. And not all underwent the transformation by passing through the Primitivist phase. As a primitivist among missiologists, he pre-dated the more celebrated Roland Allen by eighty years. His primitivist painting "Bear Surprise" became an internet meme in Russia in 2006.