this group aims at fostering exchange on anarchist scholarship and practice.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, Counterpower & Global History. Medieval New Rome & Caucasia in a Critical Perspective in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
This chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.
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Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1960-2012. Medio siglo de pensamiento comunista, T.4 in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
Jorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1980-2015, T.3 in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
Jorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Die anarchistische Raumwende. Chronotopoi der Revolution um die Jahrhundertwende in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Die Spaltung von (kommunistischen) Anarchist*innen und (marxistischen) Kommunist*innen wurde oft als die Differenz einer politischen und einer sozialen Idee und Strategie der Revolution porträtiert. Im Folgenden wird ein anderer Ansatz gewählt. Ausgehend von der erkenntnistheoretischen These, dass sich soziale Praktiken und Imaginationen immer a…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
On the project pirate.care
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Ruth Kinna deposited What is anarchist internationalism? in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This article outlines a concept of anarchist internationalism as non-domination. The discussion falls into two parts. The first outlines the general theory, building on analysis of the anarchist critique of republicanism, describing anarchist internationalism as cosmopolitan and based on a permanent “right of secession”. The second part con…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited George Woodcock: The Ghostwriter of anarchism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
In ordinary language, a ghost writer is someone who stands behind or writes on behalf of a named author. In dubbing George Woodcock the ghost writer of anarchism we instead want to suggest that Woodcock identified anarchism’s ‘essence’ or, as Stirner has it, ‘the spirit that walks in everything’. After considering the evolution of Anarchism in the…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited When Kropotkin met Lenin in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Kropotkin’s meeting with Lenin in 1919 shows how contemporary concepts of vanguardism and prefiguration rely on concepts of revolution that have been historicised through the experience of the Russian Revolution. This fleeting single encounter also draws out a contrast between anarchist and Bolshevik ideas. The risk of returning to Russian r…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Utopianism and Prefiguration in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This paper explores the ways in which radical utopian themes have been taken up in contemporary anarchist thought and, in particular, the relationship between utopianism and prefiguration. Prefiguration has become a definitional concept in anarchist political thinking, though the meaning of the term is not always clear and it is used to describe a…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and the politics of utopia in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This chapter discusses two early anarchist conceptions of utopianism, a romantic conception associated with Gustav Landauer and a rationalist ideal linked to Peter Kropotkin. I argue that the differences have been exaggerated. Landauer and Kropotkin followed different paths, but they formulated their responses to utopianism in the same context,…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism, individualism and communism: William Morris’s critique of anarcho-communism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This chapter discusses William Morris’s rejection of anarchist communism as individualistic. The first discusses his treatment of anarchist communism as a generic form. It
examines his motivations for advancing the critique and sets out the key concepts on which he later relied to develop his analysis of decision-making. The relationship between…[Read more] -
Ruth Kinna deposited Reimagining the State in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
What does it mean to re-imagine the state? In political theory the exercise has involved telling and re-telling the story of the contract. Accounts of this foundational agreement establish the basis for the state’s just constitution and define the limits of legitimate protest, empowering those who are purported to agree, namely the citizens, to a…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and Feminism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This chapter examines anarchist feminism as a politics that has emerged through critical engagements with both anarchism and non-anarchist feminisms. As a current within anarchism, anarchist feminism is rightly linked to the writing of leading anarchist women, typically neglected in anarchist canons. Yet in different historical moments anarchist…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Occupy and the constitution of anarchy in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This article provides the first comparative reading of the minutes of the General Assemblies of three iconic Occupy camps: Wall Street, Oakland and London. It challenges detractors who have labelled the Occupy Wall Street movement a flash-in-the-pan protest, and participant-advocates who characterised the movement anti-constitutional. Developing…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and non-domination in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
In this article we recover the classical anarchist deployment of republican tropes of non-domination, tyranny and slavery, to expose the conservative limits of the contemporary neo-Roman republican revival. For the anarchists, the modern nation state and the institution of private property are antithetical to freedom as non-domination, acting as…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Heretical constructions of anarchist utopianism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
This paper examines a relationship between heresy and utopianism forged in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socialist histories to reveal a significant and pervasive fault-line in the ideological construction of anarchism. I look at Marxist narratives which trace the lineages of socialism to medieval religious dissent and show how the…[Read more]
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited La Pandemia, Retos y Desafios en la Sociedad in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
La pandemia ha dejado al descubierto, necesidades y problemas sociales, asimismo, obligó a los gobiernos dar respuestas inmediatas de corto y mediano plazo para evitar el caos o la anomia social. El Covid-19, generó las condiciones hacia la realización de cambios y transformaciones sociales, para que, de esta incertidumbre y recesión, en lug…[Read more]
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Frans Prasetyo deposited Die Mobilisierung des Überdrusses (Disgust mobilization in Indonesian election) in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Indonesien: Die letzten beiden Wahlen, aus denen Joko Widodo erfolgreich hervorging, waren für viele Indonesier*innen eine Enttäuschung. Appelle für mehr Bewusstsein der Bevölkerung und eine Reform politischer Praktiken werden auch musikalisch ausgedrückt. Seit Indonesien 1998 die politische Transformation (reformasi) begann, wurde es als offe…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Recreation at stake in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Extending Audre Lorde’s intuition around the polysemy of the term recreation, I put forward this concept as an organizational principle. Via the framework of recreation, I want to think about some of the main political stakes of the forms used by collectivities able to act politically in the present. I transpose the double binding that Lorde a…[Read more]
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