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K. Sweet's List: Anarchism: a Global History (Research)
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Between tragic Past & impossible Future, anarchism seems to lack a Present—as if afraid to ask itself, here & now, WHAT ARE MY TRUE DESIRES?—& what can I DO before it's too late?...Yes, imagine yourself confronted by a sorcerer who stares you down balefully & demands, "What is your True Desire?" Do you hem & haw, stammer, take refuge in ideological platitudes? Do you possess both Imagination & Will, can you both dream & dare—or are you the dupe of an impotent fantasy?
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Jan 31, 11
Chiefs become invested in war, creating a desire for war. However, their lack of authority allows the tribe to stave off becoming a tool for the chief (thus preventing the desire for war from becoming a will to power). In fact, it condemns the warrior chief to death in advance (210)
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Feb 10, 11
On to the more concrete question–what is an anarchist anthropologist to do. Graeber calls for “low theory” (versus a single high theory, which would be inimical to the spirit of anarchism). “Low theory”, rather, is a way to grapple with the immediate questions that emerge from transformative projects. In “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropologist”, he describes ethnography as a rough, incipient model “of how non-vanguardist revolutionary intellectual practice might work”. There are two aspects or moments to this project: “one ethnographic, one utopian, suspended in constant dialogue” (12)
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Mar 30, 11
Anarchic Solidarity, T. Gibson & K. Sillander
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