Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:07:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Crosscontamination in the Postanarchism List Description


Okay simpliifying it is is a possibility however there
are many other forms of critical theory that I think
are important and that have been part of the
discussion for a long time on this list such as
postcolonialism, the Frankfurt School, autonomist
Marxism, post-leftism, Zapatismo etc. that are not
specifically poststructuralist yet, when synthesized
with anarchism produce dramatically different results.
This is why I gave the subtitle to the list
"post-normal anarchism" when it was on Yahoo rather
than "poststructuralist anarchism" especially since
many of the most interesting thinkers in regard to
this discussion are not poststructuralist at all, such
as Paul Virilio. For the one-line description that
will be on the Spoon Collective page I put "A
Discussion of contemporary anarchisms, critical
theories and social movements" because I figured the
term critical theory, without capitalization would
indicate anything from Frankfurt School to French
feminism to poststructuralism while anarchisms
(plural) rather than anarchism (singular) would
indicate the post-normality of it, the idea that there
is no ONE anarchism; finally if this list were only
academic it would be absolutely useless in my opinion
- the point is to try to think new thoughts not just
for the hell of it but so that we can start to put
these ideas into practice and therefore I would like
to have something in there about relating all of this
to contemporary social movements and "politics" , etc.



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- Giorgio Agamben, Means Without Ends: Notes on Politics, 1996

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