Catherine Malabou: The Dawning Anarchy vs. Cyberanarchy

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Catherine Malabou returns to the podcast on the eve of her most recent work being translated into English, a book entitled "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy". We revisit the arguments for ontological anarchism and attempt to elucidate a bridge between anarchy in philosophy and politics. Catherine also shares her views on cryptocurrency, AI, and other technological trends as they relate to the prospect of a "dawning anarchy". Moreover, we explore the distinction between liberatory and libertarian anarchisms as they both emerge on the cybernetic plane of the control society.

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aside from the editing, which probably was needed, but was nonetheless distracting, and the one person's head that kept coming and going, i liked this a lot. very academic but somehow i was able to follow along. it was as if Malabou took a completely different approach but ended up in territory i understand.

no mention of Hakim Bey, perhaps to be expected. then, towards the end they broach how problematic academia is, and mention a need for an underground of study, but no mention of Harney & Moten's Undercommons, which is all about stealing from the university.

7.5/10 (better with the picture off.)

There's an interesting book that's been written about anarchists, published this year, in French. It's interesting enough that I am curious about finding a translator.

Hey everybody, have any of you heard of Catherine Malabou? She's apparently a very well-engaged philosopher in France, though she's not much translated.

I've become interested in some work she's done, where "deals with the often troubled relationship between anarchism and philosophy. A hefty volume, with chapters on Aristotle, Schürmann, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, and Rancière, the book explores why some thinkers are willing to profess a kind of ontological anarchism, while at the same time avoiding anarchism in their own politics", and she tries to make sense of that process.

Insofar as she's doing work to think about the psychology/headspace/politics of major theorists in relation to anarchy, it sounds very interesting. Enough that I'm keen to chat with people about it to see where the chats go, maybe towards arranging a translator.

Au voleur! Anarchisme et philosophie (Paris: P.U.F., 2022)

Ok, in my multidirectional searching for answers I've been told that most of her work does get translated, so this one will likely be at some stage.

Do any of you guys read theory? I do. It helps me do stuff better. I enjoy coming to be able to do stuff better and doing stuff better.

How much non-anarchist political theory do you engage? Have you engaged substantively with other anti-capitalist political views before? What are examples of things you have found useful in them or things you have found harmful?

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