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Non Serviam Podcast #46 - The Love of Egoist Feminism w/ Kelly Vee

From Non Serviam Media

Join us for Non Serviam Podcast 46. This month host Lucy Steigerwald met with Kelly Vee to discuss egoist feminism, religion, anarchism, objectivism, involuntary confinement, and arming the mentally ill. Kelly Vee is an individualist anarcha-feminist and proud ADHDer, whose philosophy can best be described as Emma Goldman meets Ayn Rand.

Plant Anarchy

Plant Anarchy

New book available now. A fuller, much expanded treatment of the iteration/repetition/deixis framework that Sascha Engel first introduced in his Breaking The Alphabet, expanding it to analyses of - and techniques against - institutionalized domestication in everyday life, the state, machinery and computation (including of the "AI" variety).

History of Egoist Anarchism

Stirner's appearance is a spook. How are we to trust Engel's ill-intended caricatures?

From Center for a Stateless Society Faruk Pak

Egoist philosophy generally refers to any school of thought that considers the self (i.e. one’s own personal interests) to be the primary source of ethical standards and action, superseding external factors such as social norms or other-regarding principles. As a result, egoist anarchist schools of thought tend to emphasize personal liberation and non-subordination so that individuals may pursue their own ends without sacrificing them for others or vice versa.

The Nothing

stirner this, stirner that

From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans

Bloody Rule and a Cannibal Order! Part III

This final essay began as a few scattered notes meant originally for the Egoist and the Anarchist which I’ve worked to develop into something of their own piece. My aim here is to challenge what I see as a problematic line of thinking present all throughout this symposium and unfortunately because of that, it has to deal with one of Stirner’s most important, and therefore most difficult, challenges: the problem of language.

Bloody Rule and a Cannibal Order! Part II: The Anarchist

From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans

There is something else happening in Byas’ account of our own self-enslavement that I find interesting. It’s not just that Byas’ portrayal of anarchism is meant to be retroactively binding, emerging from our selves only to ensnare us after the fact. There’s something about this portrayal that forces a binding conclusion.

Bloody Rule and a Cannibal Order! Part I: The Egoist

From Center for a Stateless Society by Ash P. Morgans

Many problems rear their heads when attempting to establish moral systems. Determining proper criteria, defining rights and wrongs, or establishing a certain degree of objectivity are just some of the rocky surfs on which these different attempts have run aground. As such, it’s unsurprising that we see these very problems in the so-called moralist “egoism” described by Jason Lee Byas in a series of essays written against the idea of Stirner’s applicability to anarchism; essays about Stirner where Stirner’s actual thoughts seem typically misunderstood. Byas’ work — Against Moral Cannibalism, Anarchy is Moral Order, and The Authority of Yourself — represent the latest in a long history of surprisingly similar critiques perhaps all wondering that maybe if they say the exact same thing as their predecessor, this time they’ll get the grab on the Stirnerian Cheshire cat. This is meant to be a grinning response.

The Anarchist and the Egoist in Love

spooky

from Center for a Stateless Society by Kelly Vee

How can the anarchist’s commitment to the wellbeing of all be reconciled with the egoist’s commitment to the wellbeing of oneself? I suggest reconciliation comes not from politics, nor from religion, nor from markets. The anarchist and the egoist find reconciliation in Love. Love is a big term. It is no wonder the ancient Greeks had so many words to describe all of the ideas encompassed in just one English word: Eros, or romantic Love, Storge, or familial Love, Philia, or friendly Love, and Agape, or Love for humanity, to name just a few.

Egoism, Morality, and Anarchism Under Complexity

from Center for a Stateless Society by Andrew Kemle

Jason Lee Byas has already articulated what I think is an interesting (and effective) challenge to Max Stirner’s critique of morality, as well as come to a conclusion that I very much endorse: namely, that self-interest and caring for the well-being of others need not be separate concerns.

Insurrection or Revolution?

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from Center for a Stateless Society by Saul Newman

The ethical politics of Stirner’s egoism

Perhaps it is time to abandon the ‘spooks’ of identity and revolution and to think of subjectivity and politics in a different way. It is here that I suggest we turn to the nineteenth egoist anarchist philosopher Max Stirner.

Anarchy is Moral Order

Anarchy is when you write recursive trolley cart problems in logical notation. Given a powerful enough computer and enough computation time, you would solve the anarchy equation once and for all and have anarchy forever.

from Center for a Stateless Society by Jason Lee Byas

As I argued in my previous post, anyone who cares about morality needs a good answer to the amoralist challenge posed by someone like Stirner. As I also said there, this is especially true for those moralists who are also anarchists, since a morality without such an answer begins to look a good deal like the domination anarchism resists.

Anarchism & Egoism

from Center for a Stateless Society by Cory Massimino

Anarchism and egoism are, ironically, kindred spirits. Both share roots in 19th century radical philosophic and political thought — though the ideas and practices associated with each surely predate their first explicit articulations. Both have been considered, at best, taboo and, at worst, dangerous. Both have been misunderstood, but also mischaracterized. Both ultimately found refuge during the 20th and 21st centuries within broader libertarian undercurrents, where their adherents were fractured and ideas were sharpened. Most importantly, both consider themselves on the side of life and freedom.

An Individualist, on Immediatism Podcast

From time to time, listeners submit what they have written to Immediatism for feedback or just conversation. The individualist anarchist author of the following three essays says that their pseudonym has taken a pseudonym -- Sir Josephine Deathscythe. Their writing is from a particularly personal point of view. "Individualism" is a discussion of Stirnerian egoism and specifically what motivates an egoist, as well as how an egoist will tend to differ from leftists and libertarians.

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