Essay #59: DaN Mckee, ‘Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within’
Anarchist Essays17 Heinä 2023

Essay #59: DaN Mckee, ‘Anarchist: Subverting the System from Within’

In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher, DaN McKee reflects on his personal experiences with the inner conflict of being an anarchist teacher working within a school-system built on discipline and control. He looks back on his misguided attempts to subvert such systems through strict adherence to their absurd rules, and the more successful moments of subversion that came when he restored humanity and horizontalism to his classroom.

DaN McKee received his PhD from Cardiff University in 2009 and is currently Head of Theology and Philosophy at a secondary school in the West Midlands. Alongside Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher: A Memoir of Struggle, Grief, Philosophy and Hope (out now on Earth Island), his recent publications include Authentic Democracy: An Ethical Justification of Anarchism and ‘Character Flaws – An Anarchist Critique of Character Education in England’s Secondary Schools’ in Anarchist Studies. His forthcoming paper, ‘An Error of Punishment Defences in the Context of Schooling’ will be published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education soon. DaN also produces music under the name of Strangely Shaped By Fathers and runs the websites www.philosophyunleashed.com and www.everythingdanmckee.com

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Essay #123: Michael Grooff, ‘Sympathy as the Engine of Mutual Aid’

Essay #123: Michael Grooff, ‘Sympathy as the Engine of Mutual Aid’

In this essay, Michael Grooff argues for a bipartite reading of Kropotkin’s account of sympathy, the mechanism behind the evolutionary mutual aid principle. Incorporating both simulation as well as pe...

8 Kesä 14min

Essay #122: Alejandro Forero Cuéllar, ‘Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System’

Essay #122: Alejandro Forero Cuéllar, ‘Anarchism and the Abolition of the Criminal Justice System’

In this essay, Alejandro Forero examines how bourgeois criminology weaponized positivist science to pathologize dissent, pseudoscientifically labeling anarchists as "born criminals" to justify state r...

25 Touko 15min

Essay #121: Ruby Tuke, ‘The Embryonic Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin’

Essay #121: Ruby Tuke, ‘The Embryonic Abolitionist Ideas of William Godwin’

In this essay, Ruby Tuke argues that the political philosopher, author and proto-anarchist William Godwin’s critique of punishment, alongside his commitment to a form of community-rooted justice guide...

11 Touko 18min

Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’

Essay #120: David Gordon Scott & Emma Bell, ‘Envisioning Abolition - Back to Black?’

This essay introduces Envisioning Abolition, arguing that modern penal abolitionism has deep roots in nineteenth and early twentieth-century anarchist and libertarian socialist thought that challenged...

27 Huhti 20min

Essay #119: Roberta Cesana, ‘Writing as Self-Construction: Leda Rafanelli’s Life in Anarchism, Typography and Publishing’

Essay #119: Roberta Cesana, ‘Writing as Self-Construction: Leda Rafanelli’s Life in Anarchism, Typography and Publishing’

In this essay, Roberta Cesana examines the relationship between anarchism and print culture through the figure of Leda Rafanelli (1880–1971). It shows how writing, printing, and publishing functioned ...

13 Huhti 15min

Essay #118: Vincent Bouchard & Asia Matthews, ‘An Anarchist Approach to the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum’

Essay #118: Vincent Bouchard & Asia Matthews, ‘An Anarchist Approach to the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum’

In this essay, Vincent Bouchard and Asia Matthews discuss how contemporary anarchism can be used as a framework to rethink how we teach mathematics at the university level. At its core, anarchism aims...

30 Maalis 18min

Essay #117: Eleanor Strangways, ‘Anarchism, Anti-imperialism, and the British Empire’

Essay #117: Eleanor Strangways, ‘Anarchism, Anti-imperialism, and the British Empire’

In this essay, Eleanor Strangways explores the collaborations between anarchists and anti-imperialists in Britain during the Second World War. The essay begins by examining publications on imperialism...

16 Maalis 19min

Essay #116: Sean Ketteringham, ‘Anarchist anti-imperialism, modernist domesticity: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Maquette for a Large Basin’

Essay #116: Sean Ketteringham, ‘Anarchist anti-imperialism, modernist domesticity: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Maquette for a Large Basin’

In this essay, Sean Ketteringham examines the anarchist and anti-imperial politics which informed the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), the French modernist sculptor who was based in London f...

2 Maalis 25min

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