The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!

Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.

This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!

Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.

Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.

ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities

The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).

Is Black and Red Dead?

An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.

New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People

Click on Call for Papers above

Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries

Leeds, 19 February 2010.

ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)

To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.

Before the professionalisation of academia the distinctions between disciplines were not clear. As such, much of the classical canon of anarchism can in many ways be seen to be crossing disciplines. The following is a rudimentary list of classic and contemporary statements of anarchist philosophy.

Bakunin, M. (1970). God and the State New York, Dover Publications.

Bookchin, Murray (1990) The Philosophy of Social Ecology. Essays on Dialectical Naturalism, Black Rose Books

Call, L. (2002). Postmodern anarchism. Lanham ; Oxford, Lexington.

Carter, A. (2000). Analytical Anarchism: Some Conceptual Foundations Political Theory 28(2): 230-253.

Clark, J. P. (1977). The philosophical anarchism of William Godwin Princeton ; Guildford, Princeton University Press.

Clark, S. (2007). Living without domination: the possibility of an anarchist utopia Aldershot, Ashgate.

Cohn, J. S. (2006). Anarchism and the crisis of representation: hermeneutics, aesthetics, politics. Selinsgrove,[Pa.], Susquehanna University Press.

Colson, D. (2001). Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme: De Proudhon à Deluze. Paris, Librairie Général Française.

Critchley, S. (2007). Infinitely demanding: ethics of commitment, politics of resistance. London, Verso.

Day, R. J. F. (2005). Gramsci is dead: anarchist currents in the newest social movements. London, Pluto Press

Feyerabend, P. (1975). Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. London, NLB.

Franks, B. (2006). Rebel alliances: the means and ends of contemporary British anarchisms. Edinburgh, AK.

Koch, A. M. (1993). Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23(3): 327-351.

May, T. (1994). The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press.

McLaughlin, P. (2002). Mikhail Bakunin: the philosophical basis of his theory of anarchism. New York, Algora Pub.

McLaughlin, P. (2007). Anarchism and authority: a philosophical introduction to classical anarchism. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Morland, D. (1997). Demanding the Impossible? Human Nature and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Social Anarchism, London, Cassell.

Moore, J. and S. Sunshine (2004). I am not a man, I am dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the anarchist tradition. New York, Autonomedia ; [London : Pluto].

Newman, S. (2001). From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. London, Lexington.

Proudhon, P.-J. (1846). Système des Contradictions Économiques, ou la philosophie de la misère. Paris, Guillaumin.

Proudhon, P.-J. (1849). De la Creation de l'Ordre dans l'Humanité, ou principes d'organisation politique. Paris, Garnier.

Proudhon, P.-J. (1988). De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans l'Église: Études de philosophie pratique (1860). Paris, Fayard.

Robinson, A. (2004). John Rawls and oppressive discourse. Nottingham, University of Nottingham University of Nottingham: 1 v. (PhD Dissertation)

Riviale, P. (2003). Proudhon: La Justice, contre le souverain. Tentative d'examen d'une théorie de la justice fondée sur l'équilibre économique. Paris, L'Harmattan.

Stirner, M. (1995). The ego and its own. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Tormey, S. (2001). Agnes Heller: socialism, autonomy and the postmodern. Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Vernon, Richard (2007) 'Obligation by Association? A Reply to John Horton' Political Studies 55:4, 865-879

Wolff, R. P. (1998). In Defence of Anarchism. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press.

Weiss, T. G. (1975). "The Tradition of Philosophical Anarchism and Future Directions in World Policy." Journal of Peace Research 12: 1-17.