annotated bib of anarchism

(2019) by ruth kinna via kindle version from anarchist library [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ruth-kinna-annotated-bibliography-on-anarchism]:

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  • Shukaitis, Stevphen, and David Graeber, eds. 2007. Constituent imagination: Militant investigations, collective theorization. Oakland, CA: AK.An exercise in militant research, this book consciously challenges conventional scholarship by sharing experiences, ideas, and understandings in order to contribute to social transformation.

oi.. militant ness.. to social transformation?.. oi

There are a number of anarchist readers and reference books available in print, but the most accessible, comprehensive sources are online. Anarchism has a strong web presence, and sites usefully hold valuable information about infoshops, discussion forums, archives, organizing, and publishing. Most have blogrolls and hyperlinks to other anarchist sites: new users learn easily how to navigate anarchist networks. Sites typically have information about the host group, which helps users situate the selection of sources in the spectrum of anarchist politics. The sites listed here include some of the best-known sources for reference materials and excellent coverage of anarchist political theory, politics, and movements. The Anarchist Library specializes in contemporary anarchist writing, though it also holds historical texts: the collection is constructed by free, open subscription, and it is fast becoming the most significant repository for anarchist scholarship. 

should/could have dgi

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  • Affinities. 2007–.Linked to Richard J. F. Day’s Affinity Project, this journal publishes peer-reviewed papers, with a particular focus on alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the exploration of alternative, sustainable, nonhierarchical ways of living and indigenous struggles. Last issue on the site is 2015.
  • Ephemera. 2001–.A peer-reviewed open-access journal, with an interest in conceptual and theoretical questions of organization and in organizational processes.

for something legit diff.. need to org around legit needs

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 For this reason, there is no consensus about core ideas and no single body of work to which anarchists refer as a touchstone to elaborate their ideas.

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  • Graeber, David. 2004. Fragments of an anarchist anthropology. Paradigm. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm.Graeber’s short discussion brings anthropological insights to bear on contemporary activist interests in anticapitalist, anti-state protest.

fragments of an anarchist anthropology et al

  • Scott, James C. 2009. The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. Yale Agrarian Studies. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.A study of the ways in which peoples in the zone designated Zomia in Southeast Asia have resisted the organization and encroachment of formal state structures, sympathetic to anarchist critiques of the state.

art of not being governed et al

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Goodman 2012 develops a critique of consumerism; suburban development; the ghettoization of poor, usually black, communities; and the rule of “science” in technocracy. The sociological trends pointed to a loss of community and the creation of what the author calls “the empty society.”

  • Goodman, Paul. 2012. Growing up absurd. New York: New York Review of Books.Originally published in 1960, Goodman’s study of male youth delinquency established Goodman as a leading spokesperson for the New Left. The book examines sociological trends explaining fragmentation, anxiety, disillusion, and despair.

paul goodman.. growing up absurd et al

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  • Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The first 5,000 years. New York: Melville House.An anthropological analysis of the development of monetary economies, presenting a critique of modern capitalism and the principles of free market exchange, on which is it based.

debt (book) et al

  • Kropotkin, Peter. 1997. The state: Its historic role. Rev. ed. Translated by Vernon Richards. London: Freedom Press.Originally published in 1897. A classic anarchist-communist account of the state’s development and a critique of the self-regarding practices fostered by centralization and authoritarianism. The essay explores the principle of mutual aid and the idea of decentralized federalism that Kropotkin associated with it (see Kropotkin 2006, cited under Anthropology).

pëtr kropotkin et al – mutual aid..

  • Perlman, Fredy. 1983. Against His-story, against Leviathan! An Essay. Detroit: Black and Red.Perlman’s inventive, extraordinary analysis has a number of facets: he looks at the process of militarization and the religious orthodoxies that support the domination of the earth and the growth of destructive, exploitative civilizing practices. Moses is cast as the first Leninist. Complicity is also a powerful theme in Perlman’s account of the state.

against his story et al

  • Z Communications.Site hosts a range of projects for an alternative participatory economics (parecon), including a magazine, media center, and blog.

if only

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Within or without TAZs, the process of decision making is an important aspect of community activism and prefigurative change. Ackelsberg 2010 examines how networks of local grassroots feminist movements have challenged liberal democratic theory and contributed to the reconstruction and reshaping of decision making (see also Democracy and Decision Making). Democratic processes and consensus decision making within collectives, firmly established in the early 21st century, as part of anarchist practice are outlined in Common Wheel Collective 2002, an online resource, and Seeds for Change: Consensus Decision Making.

oi.. decision making is unmooring us law.. we need to try curiosity over decision making

  • Bey, Hakim. 1991. T. A. Z.: The temporary autonomous zone, ontological anarchy, poetic terrorism. New Autonomy. New York: Autonomedia.Bey’s discussion of the TAZ injects anarchist practice with carnivalesque, playful activity and extends the principle of local social networking to the construction of virtual, global networks.

bey articles et al

  • Common Wheel Collective, ed. 2002. Collective Book on Collective Process.A handbook for egalitarian communities, outlining the process of consensus decision making.

not equity .. if consensus and/or dm.. oi

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  • Seeds for Change. 2010. Consensus Decision Making. Lancaster, UK: Seeds for Change.A practical online resource, downloadable as a pdf, discussing the practicalities, benefits, and skills necessary for effective decision making by consensus.

not change.. not seeds.. if dm et al.. need to let go of any form of democratic admin otherwise same song

  • Ward, Colin. 1982. Anarchy in action. London: Freedom Press.Ward’s classic statement of community activism. He painted it as an updating footnote to Kropotkin 2006 (cited under Anthropology), but it is an original work that extends Kropotkin’s insights into practical activism. This remains an important text, particularly for ecoanarchists and those involved in cooperatives and radical community networks.

colin ward et al

Democracy and Decision Making

One of the distinctive features of anarchist politics is the rejection of parliamentary, electoral politics and the principle of representation. Four critiques, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective 2016, Wilson 2002, Landauer 1896, and Black 2011, are included to illustrate the historical continuity of the critique and the different perspectives that anarchists have brought to the analysis of liberal democratic models. As Clark and Gemie 2003 argues, anarchist approaches to democracy typically prioritize society, rather than the state, as the locus for decision making and root analysis in lived practice, rather than abstract models of citizenship. Bookchin 2007, one of the most influential models of pro-democracy communalism, synthesizes anarchism with classical democratic theory to rework decentralized federalism in an age of environmental degradation and class decomposition. Anarchists also discuss democracy and decision making in the context of protest and activism. In Martin 1993 and Writings on Demarchy and Democracy, questions of decision making are tackled in a discussion of social defense, nonviolence, and social change. In addition, Martin presents a critique of representative democracy and electoral systems and outlines an alternative process, demarchy. Graeber 2013 has also outlined an alternative consensual process of decision making by drawing on the experience of the New York Occupy movement. Szolucha 2017 uses the author’s involvement in Occupy in Ireland and San Francisco to examine democracy in social movements. Lundström 2018 presents a conflict in Stockholm to reflect on the relationship between democracy and anarchy. As well as being interested in the processes of decision making, anarchists have reflected on the organizational context best suited to anarchist principles: decentralized federalism. Proudhon 1989 is a classic. See also Community and Local Activism and Protest.

david on consensus et al.. oi.. not enough

  • Black, Bob. 2011. Debunking democracy. Berkeley, CA: CAL.An eighteen-point critique of democracy and majoritarianism, designed to reveal the limits of democratic government in order to expose the flaws in the principle of government.

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  • Bookchin, Murray. 2007. Social ecology and communalism. Edinburgh and Oakland, CA: AK.A succinct account of Bookchin’s understanding of the nature of the modern crisis, the potential of radical change, and the importance of municipalism and communalism: the foundations for democracy.

social eco and communalism et al..

  • CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective. 2016. From democracy to freedom. Salem, OR: CrimethInc.A trenchant critique of democracy that critically examines the pro-democracy activism of Occupy.
  • Graeber, David. 2013. The democracy project: A history, a crisis, a movement. London: Allen Lane.Maps a history of the economic crisis to a critique of corporate democracy in America and charts its rise against the expression of alternative, egalitarian, and consensual models, situating the processes adopted by Occupy in a tradition of popular, grassroots social organization.

the democracy project et al

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  • Bookchin, Murray. 2004. Post-scarcity anarchism. 3d ed. Working Classes. Edinburgh and Oakland, CA: AK.Originally published in 1971 (Berkeley, CA: Ramparts). A collection of essays in which Bookchin discusses the radical social transformations he believed necessary for ecological well-being and presents a critique of Marxism.

post scarcity anarchism et al

  • Kropotkin, Peter. 1912. Fields, factories and workshops; or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work. Rev. ed. New York and London: Thomas Nelson.Originally published in 1898. Kropotkin presents a critique of the international division of labor, showing how production for local consumption, based on the integration of agriculture and industry in local communes, makes anarchist communism a realistic economic prospect.

fields factories and workshops et al

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under ed and unskooling

  • Goodman, Paul. 1964. Compulsory mis-education and The community of scholars. New York: Vintage.Goodman attacks the regimentation and drudgery of US education and the socializing role that schools play in preparing children for a world of alienated labor, meeting the imperatives of commerce and consumption capitalism.

paul goodman et al

  • Read, Herbert. 1958. Education through art. London: Faber and Faber.A classic study of the role that art plays in stimulating creativity and the centrality of art practice in education.

need: art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem).. sans any form of m\a\p

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  • Black, Bob. 1986. The abolition of work and other essays. Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics.A notable critic of Bookchin, Black has produced a substantial body of work (see Black 1992, cited under Anthropology; Black 2011, cited under Democracy and Decision Making) that has helped define post-left anarchy. Black’s essay “The Abolition of Work” is widely read and has exercised a powerful influence on contemporary anarchist antiutopian utopians.

abolition of work et al

  • Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy. An extensive collection of essays and writings that deal with themes of individual rebellion, antiorganization activism, and poetic terrorism. Hakim Bey is a pseudonym for Peter Lamborn Wilson (see Religion). Available at The Anarchist Library

bey articles et al

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  • Taylor, Astra, and Keith Gessen, eds. 2011. Occupy! Scenes from occupied America. London: Verso.In collaboration with editors from N+1, Dissent, Triple Canopy, and The New Inquiry, a collection of short essays discussing the occupations, with contributions from Angela Davis, Rebecca Solnit, Jodie Dean, and Judith Butler, among others.

aastra taylor.. davis rad law.. rebecca solnit.. et al

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  • Tolstoy, Leo. 1894. “The kingdom of God is within you”: Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life. Translated by Constance Garnett. New York: Cassell.A classic statement of Tolstoy’s religious conviction, his critique of violence, and his understanding of transformation as a process of individual liberation and religious awakening.

kingdom is within you et al

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 Proudhon used Auguste Comte as one of the springboards for his anarchism. A substantial part of Ward’s work (Ward 2011, Ward 2002) was directed toward the anarchist analysis of sociological problems and issues in social policy, from transport, housing, squatting, and homelessness to leisure, play, childhood, and federalism. Shukaitis 2009 has integrated cultural, social, and political theory, influenced by autonomist critique, to rethink the role of imagination in radical thinking, a distant echo of C. Wright Mills’s anarchist-friendly approach to sociology and imagination. ..Organization is a thorny issue in anarchist thinking, because blanket acceptance or rejection has become a fracture line between some class struggle and post-left anarchists (see Class-Struggle Anarchisms and Post-left Anarchy). Two important essays, by Jo Freeman and Cathy Levine, on organization and structurelessness, respectively, appear in Wilson 2002 (cited under Democracy and Decision Making). .

jo freeman.. freeman structure law (?).. structureless\ness.. et al

  • Ward, Colin. 2002. Social policy: An anarchist response. London: Freedom Press.In this short collection of lectures, Ward explores challenging issues of welfare, mutual support, and the gift relationship.

read?.. couldn’t find in anarchist library

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  • Ward, Colin. 2011. Autonomy, solidarity, possibility: The Colin Ward reader. Edited by Chris Wilbert and Damian F. White. Oakland, CA: AK.A posthumous collection of essays, spanning the range of Ward’s published work.

read?.. also couldn’t find in anarchist library

Urbanism and Utopias

The relationship between urbanism and utopia ..a number of 20th-century anarchists argued that planning offered a means of creating environments conducive to the expression of alternative ways of living, bringing the utopian ideals of the 19th-century anarchists into a new framework, of urban design. *Goodman and Goodman 1990 is an early example that integrates the discussion of technology, education, work, and leisure into the planning process. Ward 1990 looks at the city from a **child’s perspective, to consider issues of community. Ward wrote separately on the subject of utopia and, like Parker, et al. 2007, he maintained that the ability to think beyond the apparent reality of existing social and political arrangements is an important part of resistance; p.m. 2011 is an anarchistic example of an anticapitalist and overtly utopian text. ..Postanarchists, especially, are not only suspicious of blueprints, but also critical of 19th-century classical anarchists, whom, they assert, either provided detailed outlines of anarchy or believed that anarchy described a fixed condition, set by the realization of a specific idea of human flourishing (see Postanarchism, Post-left Anarchy). Divorcing themselves from blueprint utopianism, postanarchists advocate a form of utopianism that is open-ended and without definite content. The claim that classical anarchists were blueprint utopians is contested, and the debates, together with a discussion of a broad tradition of anarchist utopian thinking, are rehearsed by contributors to the collection Davis and Kinna 2009.

*rather..

need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

**child in the city et al

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  • Goodman, Percival, and Paul Goodman. 1990. Communitas: Means of livelihood and ways of life. 2d ed. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.Originally published in 1947 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press). An illustrated discussion of city planning and the principles of city building, directed toward the realization of a new spirit of community. The text includes an overtly utopian master plan for the development of New York.
  • Parker, Martin, Valérie Fournier, and Patrick Reedy. 2007. Dictionary of alternatives: Utopianism and organization. London and New York: Zed.A dictionary designed to challenge the neoliberal doctrine “There is no alternative.”

also can’t find in a lib

  • Ward, Colin. 1990. The child in the city. Society Today. Rev. ed. London: Bedford Square.Looks at city life from the perspective of children to consider the benefits as well as the shortcomings of cities.

child in the city et al

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  • Green Mountain Anarchist Collective. 2001. On fire: The battle of Genoa and the anti-capitalist movement. Edinburgh: One-Off.A book produced by militants, including Starhawk, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, involved in the 2001 anti-G8 (Group of Eight) demonstrations in Genoa, which was marked by the killing of a protestor, Carlo Guiliani, and a notorious police raid on the Indymedia Centre.

michael hardt.. antonio negri..

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  • Thoreau, Henry David. 1849. Resistance to civil government. Boston: G. P. Putnam.A classic statement of the duty to resist unjust laws.

rather.. any laws.. any form of m\a\p..

  • Tolstoy, Leo. 1990. Government is violence: Essays on anarchism and pacifism. Edited by David Stephens. London: Phoenix.A selection of essays on anarchist themes, illustrating the limits of Tolstoy’s identification with political anarchism and setting out the basis of his critique of the state and his rejection of violence.

yeah.. sans violence ness..

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