The Postanarchism LIstserv

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The Postanarchism Listserv
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/postanarchism

This group is being created with the hopes of stirring things up within contemporary anarchist theory and praxis by synthesizing with it concepts and ideas from critical theory, poststructuralism, phenomenology, situationism, postcolonialism, autonomism, postmodernism, existentialism, postfeminism, zapatismo, postleftism, queer theory   and other contemporary critical-theoretical tendencies. Potential anarchist theorists of interest include Osugi Sakae, Todd May, Jacques Ellul, Bakunin, Rolando Perez, Shifu, Saul Newman, Emma Goldman, Ricardo Flores Magon, Luis Gambone, Max Stirner, Andrew Koch, Tolstoy, Hakim Bey, Bhagat Singh, Malatesta, Wolfi Landstreicher, Sam Mbah and Proudhon.   Parallels between the ideas of these thinkers and of theorists like Reiner Schurmann, Edward Said, Merleau-Ponty, Julia Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Subcommandante Marcos, Guy Debord, Sartre, Paul Virilio, Giorgio Agamben, Baudrillard, Manuel De Landa, Homi Bhabha, Heidegger, Hardt and Negri, Judith Butler, Claude Lefort, Horkheimer and Adorno, Chris Hables Gray, Donna Haraway, Derrida, George Katsiaficas, Neitzsche and Ian Angus are all on topic.   Discussion includes both theoretical and practical aspects of such syntheses; which includes contemporary movements imbued with an antiauthoritarian sensibility but not a specifically "anarchist" ideological-historical commitment as well as more explicitly anarchist projects as well. The title of the list "postanarchism" is not a sign that signifies a new ideology to rally the troops around but is rather a nod to Newman's call to move beyond the limitations of classical anarchist ideologies into more open, pluralistic and hybrid "anarchistic" critical theories - in other words, a virtual paradigm shift toward a post-normal anarchism, not at all unlike that which has occurred with the post-normal science movement of Funtowicz and Ravetz or the post-Marxist movement of Laclau and Mouffe.