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How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their
turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet
another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue
that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to unpack
the ways different forms of oppression intersect with one another:
class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, to name
only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor, or arche,
explaining the oppression of women, Chiara Bottici proposes a
radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims:
that there is something specific to the oppression of women, and
that, in order to fight that, we need to untangle all other forms
of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. Anarchism
needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all
femina, but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become
the privilege of a few. Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and
deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of the somatic
communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In
this new revolutionary vision, feminism does not mean the
liberation of the lucky few, but liberation for all living
creatures from both capitalist exploitation and an androcentric
politics of domination. Either all or none of us will be free.
This book follows the life of Ivan Aguéli, the artist, anarchist,
and esotericist, notable as one of the earliest Western
intellectuals to convert to Islam and to explore Sufism. This book
explores different aspects of his life and activities, revealing
each facet of Aguéli’s complex personality in its own right. It
then shows how esotericism, art, and anarchism finally found their
fulfillment in Sufi Islam. The authors analyze how Aguéli’s life
and conversion show that Islam occupied a more central place in
modern European intellectual history than is generally realized.
His life reflects several major modern intellectual, political, and
cultural trends. This book is an important contribution to
understanding how he came to Islam, the values and influences that
informed his life, and—ultimately—the role he played in the
modern Western reception of Islam.
Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a
return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of
authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic
scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his
anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing
scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work,
focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and
antipolitics. In a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern
politics, Landauer's alternative can help us to more seriously
address the struggle for a different articulation of our
communitarian and ecological needs.
Emma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and
philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her
anarchist ideas and vociferous support of free speech and personal
liberation. A polarizing figure in life, Emma Goldman was among the
first advocates of birth control for women. From 1900 to 1920 she
was in and out of jail in the United States on charges of illegally
promoting contraception, inciting riots in favor of her social and
economic causes, and discouraging potential recruits to avoid the
draft for World War I. Although Goldman initially supported the
Bolshevik Revolution, the resulting Soviet Union's repressiveness
caused an abrupt reversal in her opinion. Goldman's narrative is
thorough yet compelling; her childhood in Russia, her emigration to
the USA as a teenager, and her attraction to anarchist and social
causes is told.
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As an analyst, philosopher and militant, Felix Guattari anticipated
decentralized forms of political activism that have become
increasingly evident around the world since the events of Seattle
in 1999. Lines of Flight offers an exciting introduction to the
sometimes difficult and dense thinking of an increasingly important
20th century thinker. An editorial introduction by Andrew Goffey
links the text to Guattari's long-standing involvement with
institutional analysis, his writings with Deleuze, and his
consistent emphasis on the importance of group practice - his work
with CERFI in the early 1970s in particular. Considering CERFI's
work on the 'genealogy of capital' it also points towards the ways
in which Lines of Flight anticipates Guattari's later work on
Integrated World Capitalism and on ecosophy. Providing a detailed
and clearly documented account of his micropolitical critique of
psychoanalytic, semiological and linguistic accounts of meaning and
subjectivity, this work offers an astonishingly fresh set of
conceptual tools for imaginative and engaged thinking about
capitalism and effective forms of resistance to it.
Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by
the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical
finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that
question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most
prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian,
Errico Malatesta.
In AN AGORIST PRIMER, Samuel Edward Konkin III -- the creator and
premier activist and theoretician of Agorism -- introduces the most
powerful means to free yourself, protect and increase your wealth,
and liberate the whole of human society in the process Agorism is
applied Counter-Economics -- the philosophy of engaging in
free-market activities in defiance of government control. An
evolution of libertarianism, Agorism embraces all non-coercive
human action and opposes all force- or fraud-based attempts to
stifle innovation, trade, thought, and wealth. If you have ever
suspected that government, academia, and other entities are trying
to pull the wool over your eyes in order to control your money,
your morality, and your life, you'll find answers and remedies in
AN AGORIST PRIMER. In one concise volume, Samuel Edward Konkin III
explains the theory, principles, and -- most important of all --
the practice of Agorism. If you think that consistency between
means and ends matters, this is the book for you From the preface:
"Agorism is a way of thinking about the world around you, a method
of understanding why things work the way they do, how they do, and
how they can be dealt with - how you can deal with them. "Agorism
was meant to improve the lot of everyone, not a chosen elite or
unwashed underclass. Hence an introductory work that presents ideas
without going through the long intellectual history and conflict of
competing ideas that produced them. "As the creator of agorism, it
is most incumbent on me first to attempt to reduce it to basic
intelligibility." Samuel Edward Konkin III is the author of the
seminal work on libertarianism and Agorism, New Libertarian
Manifesto. Over the course of thirty years, he wrote, edited, and
published newsletters and magazines such as Laissez Faire, New
Libertarian Notes, and 101 issues of the longest-running
publication of its kind, New Libertarian Weekly. Known to his
friends as SEK3, Mr. Konkin graduated cum laude from the University
of Alberta, serving as head of the Young Social Credit League
there. He received his Masters in Theoretical Chemistry at New York
University, but left NYU without submitting his Ph.D. dissertation
in Quantum Mechanics to pursue his lifelong efforts to promote
Counter-Economics and Agorism. He founded the New Libertarian
Alliance, the Movement of the Libertarian Left and the outreach
organization The Agorist Institute. His body of work is available
from KoPubCo. PRAISE FOR SAMUEL EDWARD KONKIN III "Konkin's
writings are to be welcomed. Because we need a lot more
polycentrism in the movement. Because he shakes up Partyarchs who
tend to fall into unthinking complacency. And especially because he
cares deeply about liberty and can read and write, qualities which
seem to be going out of style in the libertarian movement."
--Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D.
Is it possible for anarchism to think with the new ontologies and
new materialisms, and is it possible to build a deeper anarchist
philosophy which does not reduce the world to what it is for human
animals within that world? Is it possible to think the question of
a non-essentialist ontology? (Duane Rousselle and Jason Adams,
"Anarchism's Other Scene") Radical theory has always been beset by
the question of ontology, albeit to varying degrees and under
differing conditions. In recent years, in particular, political
metaphysics has returned with force: the rise of Deleuze-influenced
"new materialisms," along with post-/non-Deleuzian Speculative
Realism (SR) and Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), all bear testament
to this. In this same period, anarchism has returned as a major
influence on social movements and critical scholarship alike. What,
then, are some of the potential resonances between these currents,
particularly given that anarchism has so often been
understood/misunderstood as a fundamentally idealist philosophy?
This special issue of ADCS, "Ontological Anarche: Beyond
Materialism and Idealism," considers these questions in dialogue
with the new materialisms, Speculative Realism, and Object-Oriented
Ontology, in order to seek new points of departure. Ontological
Anarche: Beyond Materialism and Idealism includes: EDITORS'
INTRODUCTION: Duane Rousselle and Jason Adams, "Anarchism's Other
Scene: Materializing the Ideal and Idealizing the Material";
ARTICLES: ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHE" Levi R. Bryant, "The Gravity of
Things: An Introduction to Onto-Cartography" -- John W.M. Krummel,
"Reiner Schurmann and Cornelius Castoriadis: Between Ontology and
Praxis" -- Hilan Bensusan, "Polemos Doesn't Stop Anywhere Short of
the World: On Anarcheology, Ontology, and Politics" -- Ben Woodard,
"Schellingian Thought for Ecological Politics" -- Jason Harman,
"Ontological Anarche: Beyond Arche & Anarche"; ARTICLES:
ANARCHIST ONTOLOGY: Salvo Vaccaro, "Critique of Static Ontology and
Becoming-Anarchy" -- Jared McGeough, "Three Scandals in the
Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling: Ontology, Freedom, Mythology" --
Joseph Christian Greer, "Occult Origins: Hakim Bey's Ontological
Post-Anarchism" -- Tom Marling, "Anarchism and the Question of
Practice: Ontology in the Chinese Anarchist Movement, 1919-1927" --
Gregory Kalyniuk,"Jurisprudence of the Damned: Deleuze's Masochian
Humour and Anarchist Neo-Monadology"; REVIEW ESSAY: Shannon
Brincat,"The Problem of an Anarchist Civil Society" -- Mohammed A.
Bamyeh, "A Response to Shannon Brincat"; BOOK REVIEW: Anthony T.
Fiscella, "Christian Anarchism"; INTERVIEW: Christos Stergiou
interviews Levi Bryant. Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies
(ADCS), edited by Duane Rousselle and Sureyyya Evren, is an
international, open-access journal devoted to the study of new and
emerging perspectives in anarchist thought and practice from or
through a cultural studies perspective. The interdisciplinary focus
of the journal presumes an analysis of a broad range of cultural
phenomena, the development of diverse methodological traditions, as
well as the investigation of both macro-structural issues and the
micrological practices of "everyday life." ADCS is an attempt to
bring anarchist thought into contact with innumerable points of
connection.
With all of the provocative, sometimes highly destructive acts
committed in the name of anarchy, this enlightening volume invites
readers to discover the true meaning of anarchism, exploring its
vivid history and its resurgent relevance for addressing today's
most vexing social problems. In Anarchism Today, an acclaimed
scholar and one of the world's foremost advocates for the
anarchistic tradition cuts through common misconceptions and
caricatures to explore what is perhaps the most poorly understood
of all political theories. As author Randall Amster explains,
rather than being an anti-everything rationale for defiance and
destruction, anarchism is in fact a coherent set of values and
practices with a rich history and contemporary relevance.
Passionate and provocative, Amster's book offers readers an
expert's perspective on what anarchism really means, including its
relationship to other political approaches, its careful balancing
of individual liberty and a functioning society, and its
controversial image as a wellspring of violence. Along the way,
Amster addresses a number of current issues from the perspective of
anarchism, including corporate globalization, environmentalism,
warfare, nationalism, education, technology, alternative economics,
criminal justice, and even spirituality. He concludes with a frank
assessment of anarchism's impact and the role it can play in
building a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Attempts by people to enact their political beliefs in their daily
lives have become commonplace in contemporary US culture, in
spheres ranging from shopping habits to romantic attachments. This
groundbreaking book examines how collective social movements have
cultivated individual practices of "lifestyle politics" as part of
their strategies of resistance, and the tensions they must navigate
in doing so. Drawing on feminism and other movements that claim
that "the personal is political," the book explores how radical
anarchist activists position their own lifestyles within projects
of resistance. Various lifestyle practices, from consumption to
personal style to sexual relationships, are studied to address how
identity and cultural practices can be used as tools of political
dissent. An accessible and provocative text, Lifestyle Politics and
Radical Activism blends theory with empirical materials to
highlight issues that are important not only to anarchists, but
also to anyone struggling for social change. This unique analysis
will contribute to the development of anarchist theory and practice
and will appeal to anyone interested in political activism and
social movements.
Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in
Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter
of the classical anarchisms (1860s 1940s) and the artistic and
literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions
and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism,
neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the
influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on
avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores
the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich
examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing
discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic,
social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the
avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.
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