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.
Key Texts
Avelino, Nildo (2008). Anarquismos e Governamentalidade http://www.sapientia.pucsp.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7694. São Paulo, 400f. Doctoral Thesis, Pontifícia Universidade Católica.
Bey, Hakim [a.k.a. Peter Lamborn Wilson] (2003). The Temporary Autonomous Zone 2nd Edition''. New York: Autonomedia. Also available online. Bey's 'aesthetic terrorism' shows the influence of poststructuralist thought, especially Deleuze & Guattari, in the formation of what he elsewhere calls 'nomadosophy'(see http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/boundary.htm).
Bruns, Gerald L. (1997). Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- - - (2006). On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly. New York: Fordham University Press.
Call, Lewis (2002). Postmodern Anarchism. Lanham: Lexington Books. <--Reviewed by Michael Glavin (see below).
Colson, Daniel (2001). Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme de Proudhon à Deleuze. Paris: Librairie Générale Française.
- - - (2004). Trois essais de philosophie anarchiste: Islam, histoire, monadologie. Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer.
Day, Richard J.F. (2005). Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements. London, Pluto Press. <--Reviewed by Roger Farr (see below).
Dean, Kenneth, and Brian Massumi (1992) First & Last Emperors: The Absolute State & The Body of the Despot. New York, Autonomedia.
Farrer, Linden (2006). "A Revolt to Live: Post-Structuralist Anarchist Resistance Against the G8." Anarchist Studies 14.2: 131-155.
Ferguson, Kathy (2004). "E.G.: Emma Goldman, for Example." in Feminism and the Final Foucault. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Garcia, Raul (1999). La Anarquia Coronada: LA Filosofia De Gilles Deleuze. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Colihue.
García, Vivien (2007). L'Anarchisme aujourd'hui. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Hall, David L. (1982). Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Kastner, Jens (2000). "'Kein Wesen, sondern Positionierung'. Zur Geschichte der Identitätspolitik." Arranca! 19: ??-??. <--Title translates as something like "No Nature, Only Positioning: Toward a History of Identity Politics."
- - - (2003). "Gegen Gewalt und Aktionismus Adornos Kritik taugt auch an seinem Hundersten Geburtstag noch, selbst für Soziale Bewegungen." graswurzelrevolution 282: ??-??. <--Title translates as something like "Against Violence and Actionism: Even at the age of one hundred, Adorno's critique is still relevant for social movements."
- - - (2004). "'Von den Schwierigkeiten, die Regierung stürzen zu wollen'. Neoliberalismus, Staat und Widerstand in Foucaults 'Gouvernementalitätsansatz'." graswurzelrevolution 290: 18.
- - - (2004). "'Langhaarige und frenetische Romantiker'. Antonio Gramsci und der Anarchismus." graswurzelrevolution 293: ??-??.
Koch, Andrew M. (1993) "Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23.3: 327-51. <--Abstract: "This essay identifies two different methodological strategies used by the proponents of anarchism. In what is termed the 'ontological' approach, the rationale for anarchism depends on a particular representation of human nature. That characterization of 'being' determines the relation between the individual and the structures of social life. In the alternative approach, the epistemological status of 'representation' is challenged, leaving human subjects without stable identities. Without the possibility of stable human representations, the foundations underlying the exercise of institutional power can be challenged. This epistemological discussion is traced from Max Stirner to the twentieth-century movement known as poststructuralism."
- - - (1997). "Max Stirner: the last Hegelian or the first poststructuralist?" Anarchist Studies 5.2: 95-108. <--Abstract: "Most political philosophers have argued that Stirner's concerns are compatible with those put forward by Hegel and by those influenced by Hegel. However, there is good reason for disputing this view, and for understanding Stirner as an original thinker, whose ideas in some ways anticipated the concerns of contemporary post-structuralists."
- - - (2007). Poststructuralism and the Politics of Method. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- - - (2005). Knowledge and social construction. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Kuhn, Gabriel (2005). Tier-Werden, Schwarz-Werden, Frau-Werden: eine Einführung in die politische Philosophie des Poststrukturalismus. Münster: Unrast.
- - - (2007). Jenseits von Staat und Individuum, Gabriel Kuhn Jenseits von Staat und Individuum · Individualität und autonome Politik. Münster: Unrast.
Martin, Thomas S. (1997). "Steps Toward a Post-Western Anarchism." Social Anarchism 23: 11-22.
May, Todd (1989) 'Is Post-structuralist Political Theory Anarchist?' Philosophy and Social Criticism, 15(2): 167-182.
- - - (1994) The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press. <--Reviewed by John Moore (see below).
- - - (1995) The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press.
- - - (2000) "Poststructuralist Anarchism: An Interview with Todd May." Interview with Rebecca DeWitt. Perspectives on Anarchist Theory 4.2. http://perspectives.anarchist-studies.org/8may.htm .
Möll, Marc-Pierre (2000). "Kontigenz, Ironie und Anarchie. Das Lachen des Michel Foucault." Aufklärung und Kritik 7.2: 130-145.
Morland, David (2004) "Anti-Capitalism and Poststructuralist Anarchism." Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 23-38.
Mümken, Jürgen, ed. (2005). Anarchismus in der Postmoderne: Beiträge zur anarchistischen Theorie und Praxis. Frankfurt am Main: Edition AV.
- - - (2003). Freiheit, Individualität und Subjektivität: Staat und Subjekt in der Postmoderne aus anarchistischer Perspektive. Frankfurt a.M.: Edition AV, 2003.
Moore, John (1995). "Prophets of the New World: Noam Chomsky, Murray Bookchin, and Fredy Perlman." Social Anarchism 20: ??-??.
- - - and Spencer Sunshine, eds. (2004). I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
Newman, Saul (2008). 'Postanarchism', special issue of Anarchist Studies 16.2 (2008).
- - - (2007). "Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics." SubStance 36.2: 3-19.
- - - (2001). From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2001. <--Reviewed by Todd May, below.
- - - (2005).Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought. London: Routledge. <--A collection of recent articles that develops Newman's 'Lacanian Anarchism'.
- - - (2004). "Spectres of Freedom in Stirner and Foucault: A Response to Caleb Smith's 'Solitude and Freedom.'" Postmodern Culture 14.3. <--Reply to Smith (below).
- - - (2001). "Spectres of Stirner: a Contemporary Critique of Ideology." Journal of Political Ideologies 6.3: 309-330.
- - - (2003). "Stirner and Foucault: Toward a Post-Kantian Freedom." Postmodern Culture 13.2. <--See reply by Smith (below).
Perez, Rolando (1996) On An(archy) & Schizoanalysis. New York: Autonomedia.
Schürmann, Reiner (1986). Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- - - (1986). "On Constituting Oneself as an Anarchist Subject." Praxis International 6.3: 294-310.
Vaccaro, Salvo (2004). Anarchismo e Modernità. Pisa: BFS.
Commentary
Antliff, Allan (2007). "Anarchy, Power, and Poststructuralism." SubStance 36.2: 56-66.
Cohn, Jesse (2002). "What is Postanarchism 'Post'?" Postmodern Culture 13.1.
- - - (2006). Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press.
- - - , and Sean Wilbur (2001). "What's Wrong with Postanarchism?" Publication of The Institute for Anarchist Studies.
Farr, Roger (2006). "Gramsci is Dead." Rev. of Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements by Richard Day. Rain Review 4.1: 8.
Franks, Benjamin (2007). "Postanarchism: A Critical Assessment." Journal of Political Ideologies 12.2: 127-145. <--Abstract: "Post-modernism has had a significant influence on anarchism, notably in the interrelation between the theoretical positions of libertarianism and post-structuralism (a set of theories and philosophies strongly identified with, but not identical to, post-modernism). This has generated a subset of anarchist thinking referred to as postanarchism. Postanarchism, like anarchism, is a fluid assemblage of political concepts that alters according to geographic and historical context. Within this paper, some of its key theorists, principal terms, and some of the structures that coordinate its central principles, are identified and assessed. The paper then concentrates on the apparent differences between postanarchism and more traditional anarchisms, arguing that rather than regarding postanarchism as a transcendence of anarchism, as some of its proponents maintain, it is more appropriate to regard postanarchism as representing a particular, historically specific constellation of practices, which consequently prioritizes particular discourses, agencies and tactics that are peculiar to these locations."
- - - (2006). "Questioning Postanarchism in the Age of Security." Political Science Association conference 2006. <--An earlier version of the article published as "Postanarchism: A Critical Assessment" (above).
- - - (2008). "Postanarchism and Meta-Ethics" in Anarchist Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2: 135-53.
Glavin, Michael (2004). "Power, Subjectivity, Resistance: Three Works on Postmodern Anarchism." The New Formulation 2.2: ??-??.
Gudule (1975). "Lire ou ne pas lire." Review of Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir. La Lanterne Noire 3 (juin — juillet 1975): ??-??.
Jeppesen, Sandra (2004). "Seeing Past the Outpost of Post-Anarchism. Anarchy: Axiomatic."
Kerspledeb (2006). book review of Gramsci is dead
Lubin, Oskar (2007). "Postanarchismus." graswurzelrevolution 318: ??-??. <--Abstract (translated from German): "Classical anarchism is not passé, but in view of theoretical developments and changed conditions, it requires some revisions. A sketch."
Moore, John (1997). "Anarchism and Poststructuralism." Review of The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism by Todd May. Anarchist Studies 5.2: 157-161.
Saul Newman (2005) "Interview", Siyahi Interlocal: Journal of Postanarchist Theory, Culture and Politics.
Nursey-Bray, Paul (2003). "Anarchism and Poststructuralism."
Ojeili, Chamsy (2001). "The 'Advance Without Authority': Post-modernism, Libertarian Socialism and Intellectuals." Democracy & Nature 7.3: 391-414.
- - - (2002). Review of Saul Newman, From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Thesis Eleven 69: 122.
- - - (2005). From Left Communism to Post-Modernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse. Maryland: University Press of America.
- - - (2002). "Post-modernism, the Return to Ethics, and the Crisis of Socialist Values." Democracy & Nature 8.3: 397-421.
Robinson, Andrew (2005) 'The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique' Theory & Event Volume 8, Issue 1. <--A critique of a number of Lacanian positions in political theory, including Saul Newman's, from an anarchist position influenced by Wilhelm Reich.
Shively, Charles (1979). Review of Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction. Black Rose 2: 48-52. <--See also Jason Adams's review of Shively's review at http://jasonadams.livejournal.com/2005/04/04 .
Simpson, Julia (1994). "Archaeology and Politicism: Foucault’s Epistemic Anarchism." Man and World 27.1: 23-35.
Smith, Caleb (2004). "Solitude and Freedom: A Response to Saul Newman on Stirner and Foucault." Postmodern Culture 14.3. <--Reply to Newman, "Stirner and Foucault: Toward a Post-Kantian Freedom" (above)
Vaccaro, Salvo, ed. (2008). Post-Anarchismo: Una Introduzione. Supplemento Bollettino dell'Archivio G. Pinelli 31. Milano: Centro Studi Libertari/Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli.
Widmer, Kingsley (1996). Widmer, Kingsley. "Notes on Some Recent Anarchisms." Social Anarchism 21: 88-97. <-- Review of several books, including Todd May, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism.
Websites
The Postanarchism Clearinghouse http://www.postanarchism.org/