Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has had a significant influence on the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, philosophy, […]
Clearly, something went wrong with the practice of “mythopoesis” or “myth-making from the bottom up”, which was – and still is – at the core of our philosophy. By “myth” […]
The US anarchosyndicalist group Recomposition published an article, that is well worth reading, on the same day (uncannily) that I published my last post on black blocs. My last post dealt with the black […]
Joseph Kay’s call for an affective politics is one I agree with and have made in other (non-anarchist) circles. For me part of the problem of leaving affect out of the picture […]
With regards to my last post Jeremy at Struggles Forever has provided an important reminder: [T]he conception of Nature as a container, in my opinion, conveys the wrong message. Containers delimit and […]
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
Noam Chomsky responds to a caller’s request for his thoughts on socialism, during a 2003 interview by Brian Lamb, for C-SPAN’s “In Depth” program. He describes how socialism was equated […]
In 1971 two giants of intellectual activity debated philosophy and politics on Dutch television. Noam Chomsky (1928) is a linguist, historian, philosopher, critic and political activist. Often regarded as the […]
