Nov 2, 2024
Saul Newman - The Politics of Postanarchism
The Politics of Postanarchism Saul Newman In recent years radical politics has been faced with a number of new challenges, not least of which has been the reemergence of the aggressive, authoritarian state in its new paradigm of security and bio-politics. The ‘war on terror’ serves as the latest guise for the aggressive reassertion of the principle state sovereignty, beyond the traditional limits…
#anarchism#antagonistic nature of social and political relations#anti-globalization movement#autonomy of the political#bare life#bio-politics#Class is therefore no longer the central category through which radical political subjectivity is defined#classical anarchism#complicity of the subject in power#constructed nature of social reality#contingency of history#discourse analysis#discursive understanding of social reality#economic reductionist framework of Marxism#Enlightenment humanism#essentialism#genealogical view of history#Giorgio Agamben#homo sacer#humanist discourse#incommensurability of difference#indeterminacy of identity#indeterminacy of the structure itself#indeterminacy of the subject#instability and plurality of identity#Jacques Lacan#Max Stirner#non-essentialist politics#opacity of the social#post-Marxism