Category Archives: General

MAFW and Anarchy

For some time now, it’s been no secret that there is an evil cabal of anarchists behind the MAFW page. While the various political positions, memes, and admissions of its moderators could leave no doubt about it, there has actually been very little in …

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Intercorporeality as a theory of social cognition

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Intercorporeality as a theory of social cognition Shogo Tanaka 52-66 minutes This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract The main aim of this article is to revisit Merleau-Ponty’s notion of intercorporeality (interco…

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Podcasts I have been featured on

  ANARCHIST NEWS PODCAST   01/11/2019: Anews Podcast 98 https://podcast.anarchistnews.org/2019/01/anews-podcast-98-1-11-2018/ 12/21/2018: Anews Podcast 95 https://podcast.anarchistnews.org/2018/12/anews-podcast-95-12-21-2018/ 11/23/2018: Anew…

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Sartre, Group Formations, and Practical Freedom

A Chapter from Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being Abstract In this essay, I attempt to remedy the relative neglect that has befallen Sartre’s analysis of social relations in the Critique of Dialectical Reason. I show th…

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Summary of New Year Projects – 2019

2018 was a good year for me, but it wasn’t productive when it comes to my research and writing. And really, this lack of productivity goes back further than a year. At most, I’ve been able to write only a few things over the past 3-4 years….

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The Cybernetics Question

  [placeholder] What is Cybernetics? History History of Cybernetics Theory Cybernetics and the Social Sciences Applied Cybernetics Cybernetics and the State A Review of Surveillance Valley A Review of The Exploit   Living in a Cybernetic Worl…

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An Invitation to Desertion by Bellamy Fitzpatrick

From https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bellamy-fitzpatrick-an-invitation-to-desertion By Bellamy Fitzpatrick Spring 2018 The Crisis of Modern Civilization The Politics of “The End of History” The Failure of Alternative Political Ideologies The Fa…

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The Philosophy of Our Time by Ronald Aronson

Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential Marxism offers a radical philosophical foundation for today’s revitalized critiques of capitalism. Nearly forty years after his death in 1980, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is best remembered as the father of ex…

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Anarchist Philosophy Reviewed by Steven Hendley

William L. Remley, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Anarchist Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2018, 277 pp., $114.00, ISBN 9791350048249. Reviewed by Steven Hendley, Birmingham-Southern College Was Sartre an anarchist? William L. Remley attempts to convince us that he…

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Sartre’s anarchist political philosophy – a draft for a diverse society? by Alfred Betschart

This is the text of a presentation given at the 22nd Meeting of the North American Sartre Society at the University of Wilmington (N.C.)     Good morning. Are you ready for something new? I would like to thank the committee for giving me the …

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More about this so-called thinking.

Carrying on from my last post… I might as well begin sloppy. “The United States is a country that doesn’t know itself, nor others.” – opening line to an imaginary essay Last week I began listening to the most recent episode of T…

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I’ve been thinking about..

I’ve had the urge to begin writing again, but I’m pulled in many directions and haven’t landed on any solid point to begin from. One essay would begin, “The United States is a country that doesn’t know itself, nor others.&…

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The Situationist International and Sartre

Situation (Sartre) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of the first times in which Jean-Paul Sartre discussed the concept of situation (French: situation) was in his 1943 Being and Nothingness, where he famously said that there is freedom only in…

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