Theorizing contemporary anarchism : solidarity, mimesis and radical social change /
The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for women's, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal liberation as well as ecological, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups unified against the global capita...
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Universality in Triangulation: Hegel on a Carousel; Hegel's static triad: Universality-particularity-singularity; Butler's dynamic universal: Political performativity; Circulating singularity; Recognition and the question of asymmetry; Where are 'we' in Butler: The question of collectivity; 2 Universality in Mimesis: Structural Failure and Social Transformation; Towards recognition: Performativity as a special case of mimesis; How mimesis produces failure.
- Why we repeat: Freud, Foucault, DerridaDoes gender always have to be sexual?; Butler and the question of the transgender; Structural failure and the question of formalism; Slow social transformation: How radical is that?; Reform, revolution, emancipation, subversion; Collectivities of heterogeneity; 3 Universality in Space: Collectivities of Heterogeneity meet Peter Sloterdijk's Spherology; Sloterdijk's theory of bubbles and foams; The archaeology of the intimate; Republic of spaces: A city of human foams; 'Everything is a society': Gabriel Tarde and the contamination of anthropocentrism.
- Schaumdeutung versus Traumdeutung: Ego formation through the earsFoam ethics: Immunism of co-fragile heterogeneous systems; Affirmation versus critique: Foucault and the planet of the practising; 4 Co-Immunism versus Communism: Challenging Alain Badiou's Model of Revolution; Universal doubling: Generic multiplicity and universal singularity; Generic multiplicity in ontology; The difficult passage: Between being and being-there; Universal singularity in the world of appearing; The problem with particularity; Make it quick: Event and revolution as irruptive transformations.
- Communism à la parisienne5 Towards Anarchism; Away from equality; Solidarity with singularity and contemporary anarchism; Directed mimesis, contagion and anarchist r/evolution; Impure universality and slow social transformation; Bibliography; Index.
