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.
