Essay #36: Elizabeth Vasileva, ‘The Curse of Morality’
In this essay, Elizabeth Vasileva discusses what kind of ethics are compatible with anarchist principles and makes the case for joyful, relational ways of being together. Elizabeth Vasileva is a lectu...
16 Maj 202218min
Essay #35: Mark Bray, ‘The Anarchist Inquisition’
In this essay, Mark Bray discusses propaganda by the deed and the roles of human rights and 'terrorism' in the anarchist-led transnational campaigns against the "revival of the Inquisition" in Spain a...
2 Maj 202216min
Essay #34: Alice Béja, ‘Emma Goldman, the Glorious Undesirable”
In this essay, Alice Béja discusses how Emma Goldman and other anarchists "Americanized" anarchism in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, using national tropes and references to co...
18 Apr 202217min
Essay #33: Chantelle Gray, ‘Algorithms, Automated Politics, and Anarchist Responses’
In this essay, Chantelle Gray talks about algorithmic governance - a new art of governing and government that treats individuals as data and the social world as a problem of big data sets - and the ef...
21 Mars 202212min
Essay #32: Michael Denner, ‘Anarty’
In this essay, Michael A. Denner explores anarchism’s aesthetic attitude towards reality: What does anarchism "look like" in art? Using examples drawn from texts by two Russian thinkers, Leo Tolstoy a...
14 Feb 202223min
Essay #31: Anthony Ince, ‘Uncharted Territory: Thinking about Space Beyond the State’
In this essay, Anthony Ince explores how a state-centric understanding of the world, how it fits together, and our place in it, limits both popular and academic ideas of what forms of societal organis...
24 Jan 202222min
Essay #30: Eric Laursen, ‘Climate Change, Anarchy, and the End of the State’
In this essay, Eric Laursen discusses the roots of the climate change crisis in the forces driving the modern State. He lays out an analysis that locates overreliance on fossil fuels in the State's pa...
10 Jan 202214min
Essay #29: Jeff Ferrell, ‘Dumpster Diving as Direct Action‘
In this essay, Jeff Ferrell discusses his lifelong practice of ‘dumpster diving’ (trash picking, skip diving) as a form of anarchist direct action. He argues that dumpster diving constitutes a direct ...
3 Jan 202214min
