CONTROL: Call for Perspectives’ Submissions: 2025-2026

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies

We’re back! After a hiatus that allowed us to put together an anthology of essays for AK Press showcasing the first thirty years of our work (due out July, ’26!), Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is once again open for submissions!

Occupy as Rupture: An Interview with Matt Peterson

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by Amogh Sahu, August 24, 2023

The decade we have left behind, the 2010s, was described by the British journalist Paul Mason as a time where “it’s kicking off everywhere.” What began with the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, against the dictatorial regimes that ran those countries and in favor of democratic reforms, then followed with anti-austerity protests in Greece, Spain and Portugal, and in the form of movements like UK Uncut or the 15M in Madrid.

PERSPECTIVES ON ANARCHIST THEORY Call for Submissions // Summer 2023

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies

We are interested in critical essays, book reviews, creative pieces (including fiction and poetry), as well as visual art and comics. Our annual print issue will follow a year of online publishing and will appear early in 2024. Rather than putting out a call around a specific theme, we instead invite open submissions on any topic you feel is important, but with a desire for focus in particular areas.

Bibliophilia & Anarchism in Star Trek: Picard

From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by María Angeles Castro & Javier Sethness Castro

Following up on our previous analysis of the political and philosophical affinities between Mikhail Bakunin and Richard Wagner, in which we discussed social ideologies such as feminism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and anarchist revolutionism in the epic opera The Ring (1874), we turn now to an examination of the first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard (2020/2022). We hope our artistic study of this television show might help to elucidate the anti-authoritarian themes present in its first and second seasons, as well as draw attention to the numerous literary allusions and extensive bibliophilia (‘book-love’) present in both. Our purpose here is to illuminate the anarchist values and revolutionary messages conveyed in the show through the presence of literature. Reader be forewarned: this text contains spoilers for both seasons.

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