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I really appreciated the author got into the nitty-gritty of the goings-on within the spaces, using fieldnotes and everything, and speaking from personal experience.

I didn't so much appreciate the author citing parts, but this an article on a journal written by a phd, not a zine, so it's expected. Even then, it's miles ahead something like "Joyful Militancy" and much shorter!
I consider the article good enough to merit a more detailed response (but not by syndicalists, please. they seem to be the only ones doing detailed back-and-forths nowadays). Though a response is not really necessary, much has been written already around the subject by countless texts, though not talking to or with each other.

I think they engaged with the individualists/egoists in "good (enough) faith" (at least relative to a scoff and dismissal common on the other side of that divide. did not really engage with nihilists tho.), but i mean they had already decided beforehand they were going to give it to Foucault. Tries to minimally summarize Stirner as best they can, just to be able to say what amounts to: Stirner is problematic because he doesn't let me Foucault.

Almost everything is very clear and straight to the point, except a few parts, specially towards the end. All because they tried to force it to arrive at some sort of theoretical conclusion or contribution, instead of just presenting relatable personal insights from some "case study" type anecdotes and observations.
Would have been better if not wrapped around so neatly around the "governmentality" bs.

The bits of specificity and materiality on which the observations are based on, is what holds the text up. It presents real tensions and issues. It kinda does an ok job at liking attitudes and common things that happen to some big-name authors and concepts, at least in the manner of contextualizing them, but in abstracting the things into the "sovereignty" framework it kinda falls apart. It's kinda lame if that was the whole point of the academic essay, though it was still nice to read of the experiences in these somewhat contrasting places, and some reflections around that.