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PERSPECTIVES ON ANARCHIST THEORY Call for Submissions // Summer 2023

 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.

Rhizomes and Revolution: D&G's Impact on US Anarchism

From Empty Hands History

Full title: Rhizomes and Revolution: Deleuze & Guattari’s Impact on US Anarchism

I so badly want to write an article on Deleuze & Guattari’s influence on the US anarchist movement in the 1980s-90s. One path is obvious–Hakim Bey’s use of their idea of the Nomadic War Machine in his popular concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones. But there is more.

Anarchism is for the contemporary working classes

Anarchism is for the contemporary working classes

From Freedom News UK

Unlike Marxism, Anarchism doesn’t demand the investment into these key theorists. It encourages education through theory, and people driving the movement do a great job distributing (almost) free leaflets, newsletters and zines promoting anarchist values, but it equally recognises and legitimises living anarchically. Anarchism is action as much as it is education.

TOTW: anarchafeminism and gender abolition

Topic of the Week - Anarcha-feminism is a broad topic, since both anarchist thought and feminism hold multitudes--including mutually exclusive and contradictory ones. So for the purposes of this question, please read with your most generous interpretation of feminism, at least...

An Institution, A Person, A Spirit

This article has nothing to do with Christmas.

From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

I realize how most of the people who have dedicated their lives to the building of an anarchist movement have disappointed me, some gravely, while the people who have brought an anarchist praxis to some aspect of real life and survival have inspired me the most. In the worst moments, they’ve even kept me alive.

Pleroma reading group announcement

From Pleroma

Pleroma is announcing a relatively informal reading group discussing literature of interest to anarchists and occultists alike.

Currently (as of 26 September 2022), we are reading Thunder – Perfect Mind, a relatively short text found among the Nag Hammadi scriptures in 1945.

Anyone interested in this project should join the Pleroma Discord server!

Suggestions for new texts to be read are greatly appreciated.

Announcing: SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forum

Welcome to antipolitcs dot net backslasher forum 2.0

From SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY!

Welcome to SHH! THIS IS A LIBRARY! forum. This is a place to have engaging conversations about texts on The Anarchist Library.

We’re a small group of librarians from The Anarchist Library project along with other participants who would like to encourage critical thought, reflection, and discussion of anarchist texts and ideas. Our aim is to provide discussion forums for thoughtful discourse of the most beautiful idea.

Demodernizing Anarchism

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From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by Jesse Cohn
May 5th, 2022

I should begin by acknowledging my positioning: I am writing as a white settler anarchist on land stolen from the Neshnabé (Potawatomi) in so-called Northwest Indiana, and I intend here to address mainly other settler anarchists of North America/Turtle Island.

‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’

Ecological anarchist and anti-extractivist struggle by Riona O’Regan

From Taylor & Francis Online by Alexander Dunlap

Full title: ‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization

Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented practice carried out across the world by groups or individuals rejecting domination and subjugation by state, capital, and other forms of power.

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