Jason Adams writes:

I just wanted to submit my webpage as a link suggestion.

Jason

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The Postanarchism Clearinghouse

http://www.geocities.com/ringfingers/postanarchism .html

"neither the normalization of classical anarchism nor the depoliticization of poststructuralism"

what is "postanarchism"?

first of all consider what is not; postanarchism is not an "ism" - it is not a coherent set of doctrines and beliefs that can be laid out *positively* as a bounded totality. as used here, this profoundly *negative* term refers instead to a broad and heterogeneous array of anarchist and "anarchistic" theories that have found that have been rendered homeless by the overly normalized doctrinarity of most of the classical anarchisms such as syndicalism, anarchocommunism, and platformism as well as their contemporary descendants (like social ecology). this situation is reflected not only in theory but also in the practice of such groups as the antiborder movements, people's global action, the zapatistas, the autonomen and other such groups that while clearly "antiauthoritarian" in orientation, do not explicitly identify with anarchism as a *tradition* so much as they identify with its *spirit*. the absolute origin of the term, is from the title given to a concept developed by saul newman in his book "from bakunin to lacan: antiauthoritarianism and the dislocation of power" where it refers to a theoretical move beyond classical anarchism into a more open and hybrid theory, achieved through a synthesis with key concepts and ideas from poststructuralist theory. in this sense it is quite similar to the "postmarxism" of ernesto lacalau and chantal mouffe in that while it is *post*anarchist it is also post*anarchist* - in other words it is not a complete rejection of classical anarchism but rather a step beyond the limits defined for it by enlightenment thought. yet this definition is contested and is now and probably always will be unstable - others have have chosen to define the term more broadly, including also ideas and concepts from critical theory, post-leftism, situationism, postcolonialism, autonomism, postmodernism, existentialism, postfeminism, zapatismo and other contemporary critical-theoretical tendencies. still others sympathetic to such a project yet skeptical of the urge to move beyond, explicitly reject the term "postanarchist" and argue that by keeping the term anarchist intact, but adding the adjective "poststructuralist" before it, anarchists preserve what they see as the historically continuous antimodernism that can be found even in classical theorists such as mikhail bakunin.

who are the key thinkers?

there are no hard and fast "key thinkers" here and as such there is no "canon" either as there might be in many easily defined and disciplined ideologies - this is because postanarchism is not a positivity but a negativity; it is a *rejection* of the doctrinarity of tightly bordered (striated) ideology and an *embrace* of the borderless multiplicity of (smooth) theory. that said, it is in fact true that certain thinkers within classical and contemporary anarchist theory have far more in common with the "postanarchist turn" than most others do, just as certain thinkers within poststructuralism and critical theory have more in common with an antiauthoritarian analysis than most others do. a few potential classical and contemporary anarchist theorists of interest in this regard might include todd may, mikhail bakunin, saul newman, emma goldman, luis gambone, max stirner, hakim bey, errico malatesta, wolfi landstreicher, and john zerzan just to name a few. poststructuralist and other critical theorists that lean towards an antiauthoritarian analysis and would thus be of interest might include michel foucault, kathy ferguson, gilles deleuze, felix guattari, michael shapiro, guy debord, timothy luke, giorgio agamben, jean baudrillard, jens bartelson, manuel de landa, michael hardt, antonio negri, judith butler, chris hables gray, luce irigaray, james der derian, paul feyerabend and donna haraway - for starters. other than these well-known "theorists", are the equally if not more important, growing numbers of people who just feel dissatisfied with *all* ideologies in general, yet who can also sense the profound resonance an nondoctrinaire antiauthoritarian analysis has within the contemporary social movements. It is especially for these "unrecognized" people actively engaged in changing the world that I hope this webpage can help to provide the beginnings of a unique critical theory of the self and thus of the larger world as well.

what are the key sources for such theories?

the most obviously relevant publishing houses are semiotext(e) and autonomedia, though others such as university of minnesota press have published numerous relevant texts as well. relevant books would include ronaldo perez' "anarchy and schizoanalysis", todd may's "the political philosophy of poststructuralist anarchism", saul newman's "from bakunin to lacan", gilles deleuze and felix guattari's "a thousand plateaus" and "anti-oedipus", michel foucault's "power/knowledge", michael hardt and antonio negri's "empire", michael shapiro's "violent cartographies", max horkheimer and theodor adorno's "dialectic of enlightenment", richard day's "multiculturalism and the history of canadian diversity", guy debord's "society of the spectacle", kathy ferguson's "the man question", giorgio agamben's "means without end: notes on politics", jens bartelson's "the critique of the state", bob black's "anarchy after leftism", paul feyerabend's "against method", luce irigiraray's "why different?", friedrich nietzche's "the genealogy of morals", ian angus' "primal scenes of communication", manuel delanda's "war in the age of intelligent machines", jean baudrillard's "screened out", harry cleaver's "reading capital politically", jacques derrida's "spectres of marx", ernesto laclau and chantal mouffe's "hegemony and socialist strategy", james der derian's "virtuous war", paul virilio's "speed and politics" and chris hables gray's "postmodern war". periodicals might include anarchy magazine, anarchist studies, willful disobedience,aufheben, theory and event, theory and society, alternatives: local, global, political, new political science, and sometimes green anarchy. aside from these "realtime" sources there are dozens of websites and listservs that would be relevant, many of which are linked directly below."