#mark lance

[strungmag]

Upland Hunting and Fly Fishing with Mark Lance | Strung Magazine

The Articulate Fly podcast with Strung Contributor Mark Lance

[acharyapahndeepah]

Get to know PROF. MARK LANCE One of my fave thinkers who is as profoundly committed to praxis as he is to theory.

[anarchy-is-organization]

This video had a big impact on my understanding of anarchism, and belief in its validity as a philosophical position. 

[athousandgateaux]

In a recent article entitled ‘Fetishizing Process,’ Mark Lance intervenes in the traditional debate among anarchists regarding whether voting or consensus respects the equality of participants. This debate pits those who think that consensus is more egalitarian because it respects the views of every participant against those who opt for voting because consensus allows any single member to block a group’s decision and thereby fail to respect the equality of all participants. Lance argues that this focus on formal group process misses the significance of the training and self-training of the participants themselves. His claim is that we often expect to design processes that will guarantee respect for persons when in fact the processes themselves only work when that respect has been instilled. ‘An anti-authoritarian democratic organization must not understand itself as defined by a set of formal procedures. Rules can be used, as tools of a virtuous community with a largely functional practice, but they should be no more than tools.’ What needs to be cultivated instead are the kinds of people that can recognize and respect others, even where they disagree with them, that is, group solidarity.

Todd May, Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism pg. 137