Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:19:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eduardo=20enriquez?= <eduardofenriquez-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fing: "Sketches of a Post-Foucauldian Anarchism"


 --- "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com> escribió: > 
> Sketches of a post-Foucauldian anarchism 
> 

> 
> He presents two lines of thought that I'd like to
> develop here, for their relevance to anarchism.
> First
> is to deepen the understanding of power, an
> understanding that is frequently lacking among
> anarchists. The other is to counter claims made by
> some anarchists to be recovering some fundamental
> aspect of human nature by clearing away
> authoritarian
> or heirarchical institutions that impede the
> expression of an anarchic, nonauthoritarian true
> human
> nature. Human nature does not exist indepedent of
> the
> cultural institutions and practices that construct
> it:
> as anarchists our goal might better be described as
> instituting practices that create humans as
> anarchic.


this is the first time ive heard anarchism described
as wanting to "create" humans in one way or another.
it is not to defend here a too libertarian "free
humans" position where the human will uspposdely
create him/herself, but at least to put forward a
position where the goal is the elimination of socially
constructed power structures or agencies which end up
conditioning human life to adjustments to existences
which end up even threatening life itself but of
course in the way also building life along utilitarian
stoic lines adscribed to the resolution of narratives
(progress, self realization, success, etc) which
contemporarely serve as ideological agents of the
indiscriminate and unlimited drive of capital to
increase and expand its scope.

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