Essay #74: Pranay Somayajula, ‘Nationhood Beyond Nationalism: Towards an Anarchist Politics of Anti-Colonial Liberation’
In this essay, Pranay Somayajula critically examines the anarchist movement’s relationship to anticolonial politics. Drawing on a rich history of anticolonial movements, from the Kurds in Rojava to th...
12 Feb 202417min
Essay #73: Christopher Powell, ‘Shame Economies’
In this essay, Christopher Powell examines how sovereign statehood generates an economy of shame that fosters identification with the imagined sovereign. Achieving anarchy requires a shift in who is ...
29 Jan 202423min
Essay #72: Elena Pagani, ‘Interpersonal Freedom as Pluralist Radical Horizontality’
In this essay, Elena Pagani presents theorising and practices of freedom as interpersonal and intersubjective. She does this through the conceptions of agonistic self-creation and agonistic empathy in...
15 Jan 202437min
Essay #71: Deric Shannon, ‘The Anarchist Critique of Capitalism’
In this essay, Deric Shannon outlines the anarchist analysis and critique of capitalism. He also gives some potential explanations for capitalism's resilience. Deric Shannon is an Associate Professor ...
1 Jan 202416min
Essay #70: Sonia Hernández, ‘For a Just and Better World’
In this essay, Sonia Hernández describes the central role Mexican women played in the emergence of anarcho-syndicalist organizing during the early 20th century. She examines the emergence of transnati...
18 Dec 202326min
Essay #69: Benjamin Franks, ‘Anarchism and Elections’
In this essay, Benjamin Franks identifies the core principles that lead anarchists to reject participation in democratic elections. It then explores the occasions where anarchists have engaged in diff...
4 Dec 202325min
Essay #68: Carne Ross, ‘Anarchy is Love’
In this essay, Carne explores the spiritual dimension of anarchism, which he once assumed was more a ‘political’ philosophy about how people make decisions and transact business. He concludes that the...
20 Nov 20238min
Essay #67: William Marling, ‘Anarchism and Rhetoric’
In this essay, William Marling asks why there seems to be so much rhetoric in/about anarchism. He digs for an answer in his recent book on Ammon Hennacy, finding an answer in the practice of "parrhesi...
6 Nov 202323min
