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 Juni 14min
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 Maj 15min
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 Maj 18min
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 Apr 20min
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 Apr 15min
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 Mars 18min
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 Mars 19min
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 Mars 25min
