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'''Post-anarchism''' or '''postanarchism''' is the term used to represent [[anarchism|anarchist]] [[philosophy|philosophies]] developed since the 1980's using [[post-structuralism|post-structuralist]] and [[postmodernism|postmodernist]] approaches. Some prefer to use the term '''post-structuralist anarchism''', so as not to suggest having moved "past" anarchism. It is not a single coherent theory, but rather is different for each thinker, who utilize the differently combined works of any number of post-structuralists ([[Michel Foucault]], [[Gilles Deleuze]]), [[postmodern feminism|postmodern feminists]] ([[Judith Butler]]), and [[Post-Marxism|post-Marxists]] ([[Ernesto Laclau]], [[Chantal Mouffe]], [[Jean Baudrillard]]), with those of classical anarchists, with particular concentration on [[Emma Goldman]] and [[Max Stirner]], thus varying rather widely in both approach and outcome. |
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The prefix "post-" does not mean 'after anarchism', but refers to the challenging and disruption of typically accepted assumptions within frameworks that emerged during the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment era]]. This means a basic rejection of the [[epistemology|epistemological]] foundations of classical anarchist theories, due to their tendency towards [[essentialism|essentialist]] or [[reductionism|reductionist]] notions – although post-anarchists are generally quick to point out the many outstanding exceptions, such as those noted above. Such an approach is considered to be important insofar as it widens the conception of what it means to have or to be produced rather than only repressed by [[power (sociology)|power]], thus encouraging those who act against power in the form of domination to become aware of how their resistance often becomes overdetermined by power-effects as well. It argues against earlier approaches that [[capitalism]] and [[government|the state]] are not the only sources of domination in the moment in which we live, and that new approaches need to be developed to combat the network-centric structures of domination that characterize late modernity. Although thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]], Butler, [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]], and [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]] are not explicitly self-described anarchists, their ideas nevertheless serve of great importance, given that their thought is certainly some of the most thoroughly anti-authoritarian to emerge in the history of philosophy and since most of these actively engaged in the Events of [[May 1968]]. |
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Some concepts common within post-anarchism include: |
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*the misalignment of the subject in relation to [[discourse]] |
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*the denaturalization of the body and sexuality |
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*the rejection of the [[repressive hypothesis]] |
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*[[Genealogy (Foucault)|Foucault's genealogy]] |
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*the [[deconstruction]] of the [[binary opposition]] of [[Western philosophy|Western thought]] |
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*the deconstruction of [[gender role]]s through feminist poststructuralism |
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==Approaches== |
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One post-anarchist thinker, [[Todd May]], argues for a "poststructuralist anarchism" grounded in the poststructuralist understanding of [[power (sociology)|power]], particularly through the work of [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Emma Goldman]] as a corrective to more circumscribed notions, while taking the anarchist approach to ethics as a mode through which to recast the poststructuralist lack of elucidation in this domain. The "[[Jacques Lacan|Lacanian]] anarchism" proposed by [[Saul Newman]] utilizes the works of [[Jacques Lacan]] and [[Max Stirner]] more prominently. Newman criticizes classical anarchists, such as [[Michael Bakunin]] and [[Peter Kropotkin]], for assuming an objective "[[human nature]]" and a natural order; he argues that from this approach, humans progress and are well-off by nature, with only the [[The Establishment|Establishment]] as a limitation that forces behavior otherwise. For Newman, this is a [[Manichaeism|Manichaen]] worldview, which depicts only the reversal of [[Thomas Hobbes]]' ''[[Leviathan (book)|Leviathan]]'', in which the "good" state is subjugated by the "evil" people. [[Lewis Call]] has attempted to develop post-anarchist theory through the work of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], rejecting the [[Cartesian dualism|Cartesian]] concept of the "subject". From here a radical form of anarchism is made possible; the anarchism of becoming. This anarchism does not have an eventual goal, nor flow into "being", it is not a final state of development, nor a static form of society, but rather becomes permanent, as a means without end. |
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==Reading== |
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*Call, Lewis: ''Postmodern Anarchism'', Lanham, Lexington Books 2002 - 0739105221 |
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*Day, Richard ''Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements'', London, Pluto Press 2005 - ISBN 0745321127 |
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*Evren, Sureyyya - Ogdul, Rahmi G.: ''Bagbozumlari, Kultur, Politika ve Gundelik Hayat Uzerine'', Studyo Imge, Istanbul 2002, - ISBN 9757437859 |
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*Evren, Sureyyya - Ogdul, Rahmi G.(ed.): ''Baska Bir Dunya Mumkun'', Studyo Imge, Istanbul 2002 - ISBN 9757437891 |
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*[[Kathy Ferguson|Ferguson, Kathy]]: ''The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy'', [[SAGE Publications]] [[1984]] - ISBN 0877224005 |
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*Kastner, Jens: ''Politik und Postmoderne. Libertäre Aspekte in der Soziologie Zygmunt Baumans'', Münster 2000 - ISBN 3897714035 |
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*May, Todd: ''The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 1994 - ISBN 0271010460 |
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*May, Todd: ''Anarchismo e Poststrutturalismo, Da Bakunin a Foucault'', trans. Salvo Vaccaro, Eleuthera, Milano 1998 ISBN 88-85861-86-5 |
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*May, Todd: ''Postyapisalci Anarsizmin Siyaset Felsefesi'', trans. Rahmi G. Ogdul, Ayrinti, Istanbul 2000. |
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*Mümken, Jürgen: ''Freiheit, Individualität und Subjektivität. Staat und Subjekt in der Postmoderne aus anarchistischer Perspektive'', Frankfurt am Main 2003 - ISBN 3936049122 |
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*Mümken, Jürgen (editor): ''Anarchismus in der Postmoderne. Beiträge zur anarchitischen Theorie und Praxis'', Frankfurt am Main 2005 - ISBN 3936049378 |
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*Newman, Saul: ''From Bakunin to Lacan. Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power'', Lanham, Lexington Books 2001 - ISBN 0739102400 |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.postanarchism.org/ Postanarchism Clearinghouse] |
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*[http://www.anarchist-studies.org Institute for Anarchist studies] |
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*[http://www.livejournal.com/community/siyahi/ Siyahi Interlocal] |
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*{{de icon}} [http://www.postanarchismus.net Postanarchismus] |
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*{Turkish} [http://www.siyahi.net Siyahi] |
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[[Category:Anarchism]] |
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[[Category:Postmodern theory]] |
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[[Category:Poststructuralism]] |
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