Essay #82: David Christopher, ‘Early Cronenberg and the Anarchist Apocalypse’
In this essay, David Christopher explores and unpacks the mutually anarchistic and apocalyptic propensities in the early films of David Cronenberg. Christopher positions Cronenberg's films as exemplar...
3 Juni 202418min
Essay #81: Andrew Whitehead, ‘The Anarchist Big Three and the Siege of Sidney Street’
In this essay, Andrew Whitehead examines the two most lethal incidents linked to anarchism in London's history: the murder of three police officers during an attempted armed robbery at Houndsditch in ...
20 Maj 202421min
Essay #80: Jayne Malenfant & Hannah Brais, 'An Anarchist Approach to Housing Precarity'
In this essay, Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais unpack an anarchist approach to confronting housing precarity by bringing together existing anarchist scholarship while proposing housing interventions ...
6 Maj 202417min
Essay #79: Sean Scalmer, ‘Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept’
This essay examines the rise of 'direct action' as a key concept in anarchist and radical politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces the transnational arguments, texts ...
22 Apr 202432min
Essay #78: Sam C. Tenorio, ‘Black Cataclysm: Anarchism and Ruination’
In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Sam C. Tenorio (he/they) reconsiders the Watts Rebellion of 1965 and its ruinous disruptions, like arson, theft, and vandalism, as a cataclysm ...
8 Apr 202418min
Essay #77: Nolan Bennett, ‘Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism’
In this essay, Nolan Bennett traces through Alexander Berkman's 1912 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist an unresolved tension between two approaches to the prison: advocacy for political prisoners and adv...
25 Mars 202424min
Essay #76: Peterson Silva, ‘Mechanical Failures and Anarchist Freedom’
In this essay, Peterson Silva talks about metaphors for freedom among anarchists. He particularly discusses a metaphor concerning failure in complex systems, pointing out that anarchists relate freedo...
11 Mars 202417min
Essay #75: Chris Robé, ‘Anarchism, Video Activism and State Repression’
In this essay, Chris Robé explores the origins of video activism from the ecology, women’s liberation, and anarchist movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then traces the state’s increasing ...
26 Feb 202416min
