Anarchism

Review - John Holloway, Crack Capitalism (London, 2010)

by Uday Chandra

Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour

by Simon Springer

Springer S, Ince A, Pickerill J, Brown G, and Barker A. Forthcoming. Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter... more The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what is today known as ‘radical geography’, attempted to reintroduce anarchism as a legitimate political philosophy. Unfortunately, quiet followed once more, and although numerous contemporary radical geographers employ a sense of theory and practice that shares many affinities with anarchism, direct engagement with anarchist ideas among academic geographers have been limited. As contemporary global challenges push anarchist theory and practice back into widespread currency, geographers need to rise to this occasion and begin (re)mapping the possibilities of what anarchist perspectives might yet contribute to the discipline.

Český protest od dob normalizace - sociálně-politické podmínky disidentů a současné anti-systémové opozice v komparativní perspektivě

by Olivie Brabcová

Cílem práce je popsat změny anti-systémové opozice v Čechách za státního socialismu a po změně režimu na demokratický,... more Cílem práce je popsat změny anti-systémové opozice v Čechách za státního socialismu a po změně režimu na demokratický, konkrétně v časovém období od
počátku normalizace až do pádu komunismu v kontrastu s polistopadovou érou až do současnosti. Po obecném porovnání anti-systémových opozic autorka staví proti sobě
dvě konkrétní protestní události důležité pro daná období. První jsou násilně potlačené demonstrace v lednu 1989 známé jako Palachův týden a druhou alterglobalizační protesty proti zasedání Mezinárodního Měnového Fondu a Světové Banky v září 2000.

“We Teach All Hearts to Break” (2012)

by Christian Garland

“We Teach All Hearts to Break”: On the Incompatibility of Education with Schooling at All Levels, and the Renewed Need for a De-Schooling of Society
Published in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association 48:1, Special Issue: “Anarchism… is a living force within our life…” Anarchism, Education and Alternative Possibilities pps.30-38
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/heds20/48/1

'The Big Smoke' Screen: Toronto's G20 Protests, Police Brutality, and the Unaccountability of Public Officials

by Ian Hussey

Co-authored with Patrice LeClerc in Socialist Studies 7(1/2) Spring/Fall 2011: 282-302

The G8 and G20 summits took place in Huntsville and Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-26 and 26-27 June 2010... more The G8 and G20 summits took place in Huntsville and Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-26 and 26-27 June 2010 respectively. Summits such as these often have large budgets attached to them and attract protests from people with various political leanings deploying a diversity of tactics, and these particular summits were no exception. In this article, we contrast official and media accounts of the protest and the policing of the events with a narrative grounded in protestors’ experience, in an attempt to complicate present popular understandings of these protests. In the discussion section of the article we provide theoretical and analytic insights into what the events of last summer can tell us about organizing and policing dissent.

Le sommets du G8 et du G20 se sont tenus à Huntsville et Toronto, Ontario, Canada le 25-26 et 26-27 juin 2010 respectivement. Les sommets comme ceux-ci ont généralement des budgets importants et attirent des manifestations organisées par des individus avec des tendances politiques multiples, utilisant des stratégies diverses. Ces sommets ne font pas exception. Dans cet article, nous contrastons les descriptions des manifestations et du comportement de la police par les sources officielles et les médias, avec les récits issus de l’expérience des manifestants, dans un souci de complexifier la compréhension populaire des ces manifestations. Nous offrons des contributions théoriques et analytiques pour comprendre ce que les événements de l’été dernier peuvent nous dire à propos de l’organisation et le contrôle de la contestation.

« The Genocidal Logic of Neoliberalism » (2008)

by Michel Weber

La Stratégie du choc, la montée d’un capitalisme du désastre (The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism) est un essai de Naomi Klein paru en 2007 chez Acte Sud. Ce compte rendu a été publié originellement in Michel Weber et Pierfrancesco Basile (dir.), "Chromatikon IV. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès - Yearbook of Philosophy in Process", Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2008, pp. 199–207.

Seven years after her famous No Logo : No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2000), Naomi Klein has published The Shock... more Seven years after her famous No Logo : No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2000), Naomi Klein has published The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York, Metropolitan Books and London, Allen Lane, 2007), now available as a paperback (Penguin, 2008) and recently translated into French (La stratégie du choc. La montée d’un capitalisme du désastre, traduit par Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné, Arles, Actes Sud, 2008). In this utterly lucid study, Klein’s triune thesis is bold enough : economical war (the neoliberal controlled demolition of the state), state terrorism (the systematic destruction of culture with bombs, abductions, torture, assassinations…) and “democratic” free market are three facets of the enforcement of the same ideology.

Holloway, La Boétie, Hegel

by Adrian Wilding

Co-Authored with Richard Gunn, Published in The Journal of Classical Sociology, Special Issue on John Holloway's book 'Crack Capitalism', May 2012

A love letter to the Other: Xenophily and radical politics

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

Forthcoming. Draft available for viewing.

Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured,... more Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured, than to listen to some of my favourite love songs? The smooth and sensual vocals of Cody Chestnutt’s ‘No One Will’ seem to be doing the trick right now. However, my wish here is not to write of romantic love (at least not exclusively), but of love in a political and ethical, though I would hope no less erotic, sense.

I begin by posing the question of love in relation to the under-examined concept of community. Beyond the ‘community of two’ that is the romantic couple or pair of friends are communities of interest, political persuasion, class, gender, culture, nation, and so on. Implicit in each kind of self-identified community are particular values concerning who it is admissible to associate with, to become friends with, to love.

‘Some of them might be nice people’, conceded the xenophobe to her more immigrant-friendly colleague one evening on my television screen, ‘but it’s not as if I’m going to become friends with them. That’s not how the world works’.

It is scarcely questioned that we should so often be drawn to people in whom we find something of ourselves. Communities have become a veritable extension of the self. Love, meanwhile, becomes reduced to the love of Same."

Book Review: Saul Newman - The Politics of Postanarchism

by Michael Larson

Published in Radical Philosophy Review 14.1 (2011)
pages 105-109

Tymczasowa strefa eskapistyczna

by Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak

[Temporary escapistic zone]
Review essay of Hakim Bey's "Temporary Autonomous Zone". Published online in 2010.

Stirner, Deleuze, Esposito: la maschera del diritto e il vitalismo anarchico

by Giacomo Pezzano

Published in “Lessico di Etica pubblica”, I, 2, 2010, pp. 87-96

A short summary of the evolution of the theoretical foundations of anarchism A short summary of the evolution of the theoretical foundations of anarchism

Timbuktu und die selbstorganisierenden Gesellschaften der Vorzeit

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2012). WESPENNEST Vol. 162.

This is an article written for popular consumption and published in German in the widely circulated Austrian publication WESPENNEST. Official print publication will be available in May 2012:

Article title in English is: Timbuktu and the Self-Organizing Societies of the Ancient World Article title in English is: Timbuktu and the Self-Organizing Societies of the Ancient World

Critical Pedagogy Taking the Illich Turn

by Richard Kahn

The International Journal of Illich Studies 1(1), 2009

« On a Certain Blindness in Political Matters » (2011)

by Michel Weber

Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 7, No 2 (2011)

This essay argues for two complementary theses, one pertaining to epistemology and the other to politics. First,... more This essay argues for two complementary theses, one pertaining to epistemology and the other to politics. First, unless philosophy adopts a radical empiricist standpoint and seeks the uttermost generalities, it cannot differentiate itself from yet another form of limited expertise and becomes useless. Second, both radical empiricism and imaginative pragmatism lead the philosopher towards the left end of the political spectrum, i.e., to a radically progressive politics.

Occupy Wall Street: The Liminality of Zuccotti Park

by katherine sullivan

Recensione a P.-J. Proudhon, "Contro l’Unità d’Italia. Articoli scelti", traduzione di P. Goglio, Miraggi Edizioni, Torino 2010

by Paola S. Salvatori

in «Corriere della Sera», edizione on-line, pubblicata il 31 dicembre 2010

BUILDING OVER PLANNING: RADICAL COUNTER-HEGEMONY AND THE DINOSAURS OF THE OLD LEFT

by E. Colin Ruggero

After December: Spatial Legacies of the 2008 Athens Uprising. In Upping the Anti vol 10.

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

See: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/10-after-december-spatial-legacies-of-the-2008-athens-uprising/

The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on... more The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on December 6, 2008 sparked an unprecedented wave of protests and rioting. These protests quickly spread not only throughout Athens and the majority of Greek cities but also beyond the country’s borders. Around the world, more than 200 solidarity actions took place in December alone. During the riots and clashes that followed Grigoropoulos’ death, police departments, banks, government ministries, and other public buildings in Athens came under near-daily attack, while universities, high schools, town halls, and other buildings were occupied by demonstrators across the country. This episode ­– a major insurrection sparked by a single incident of police brutality – has attracted considerable attention from global social justice movements. The question of the uprising’s aftermath remains on many people’s minds. Before considering the legacies of the uprising, however, it’s useful to look at how the events of December 2008 became possible in the first place.

Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. Forthcoming. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia. Journal of Agrarian Change.

The unfolding of a juridico-cadastral system in present-day Cambodia is at odds with local understandings of... more The unfolding of a juridico-cadastral system in present-day Cambodia is at odds with local understandings of landholding, which are entrenched in notions of community consensus and existing occupation. The discrepancy between such orally recognized antecedents and the written word of law have been at the heart of the recent wave of dispossessions that have swept across the country. Contra the standard critique that corruption has set the tone, this paper argues that evictions in Cambodia are often literally underwritten by the articles of law. Whereas ‘possession’ is a well-understood and accepted concept in Cambodia, a cultural basis rooted in what James C. Scott refers to as ‘orality’, coupled with a long history of subsistence agriculture, semi-nomadic lifestyles, barter economies, and–until recently–widespread land availability have all ensured that notions of ‘property’ are vague among the country’s majority rural poor. In drawing a firm distinction between possessions and property, where the former is premised upon actual use and the latter is embedded in exploitation, this article examines how proprietorship is inextricably bound to the violence of law.

Proudhon: A Philosopher for our times

by Alex Prichard

This draft chapter will translated into Catalan and will form the introduction to a newly edited and translated collection of Proudhon's writings on international politics. Unfortunately, this collection will only be available in Catalan. If only we could find someone/body to support a comparable project in English.... This paper is in draft form. Please do not cite, but feel free to comment!

We are currently living in uncertain times. Modern states are being dismantled and capitalism is in crisis (again). If... more We are currently living in uncertain times. Modern states are being dismantled and capitalism is in crisis (again). If we are to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, and if we desire to know more about how we got to where we are, Proudhon's writings on nineteenth-century European politics are a good place to start. In this introduction I argue that the contemporary relevance of Proudhon's writings on European international relations lie in his prophetic observations regarding the probable trajectory of European politics. He foresaw the dissolution of European empires and warned against centralizing unitary national states and the doctrines of nationalism. He lamented the rise of capitalism and offered a viable alternative that sought to extend republican concerns with non-domination to the economic relations of society. His sociological method differentiated all of society's natural groups and argued that each should be the locus of direct democracy. At each step, his aim was to justify the reclamation of the alienated powers that modern statism and capitalism were stripping from the populace.