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From: JessEcoh-AT-cs.com
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:58:19 EDT
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] a postanarchist concept: enarchism: loosening the hold of...


tom --

   well, i'm not sure i follow you half the time, but something about this 
concept of "enarchy" reminds me of the White Bicycle Plan in 60s amsterdam -- 
the fleet of white-painted bikes which were left in public places with the 
suggestion that whoever needed one could use it as long as s/he liked, then leave 
it for someone else.  a wonderful experiment, and a productive one (productive 
of solidarity, of trust) as long as the non-ownership regime was respected; 
perilously open to abuse, though, and destined to collapse, since the context it 
existed in was still overwhelmingly propertarian.  a seemingly sturdier 
anarchist alternative (last i heard of this was in california, circa 1992) is the 
"bike library," in which there is a communally-available fleet of bikes that 
can be "checked out" for a period, then returned for another's use.  less 
romantic, perhaps, but less vulnerable to recommodification.  would the bike library 
then be considered "enarchical"? or is enarchy, as you define it, confined to 
"objects" that can be duplicated (iterated?) endlessly -- like computer 
programs, texts, words, ideas, memes, information?
   by the way, despite the seemingly negative character of the word "anarchy" 
(in its prefix, at least), i consider anarchism already to be a positive, 
reconstructive project.  historically, apart from the period of bombers and 
assassins, this is what it has been.


       --jesse.


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