This dissertation is principally concerned with economies and economisms of everyday life. Economy in this sense means something more than what we commonly associate with the term—goods and services, markets, money—although it includes these. The dominant economy of capitalism a…
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their rejection of classical anarchism, various postanarchist thinkers adopt a position of epistemological critique and reduce their metaphysics to a minimal conception of the self and broad, common knowledge statements about politics. Morality in the form of coercive rules or o…
This thesis provides a contextualised exegesis and re-evaluation of the anarchist Pierre- Joseph Proudhon's writings on war and peace. The thesis has two claims to originality. The first lies in shedding new light on Proudhon's voluminous writings on international politics. Thes…
This thesis analyses the emergence of Cuba as a sovereign nation, and the political corruption that plagued the republic. It investigates in detail, not only the independence movement that established this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture…
Contemporary debates in anarchism, particularly the conceptual debates sparked by the development of post-anarchism and those surrounding the emergence of the anti-globalization movement, have brought an old question back to the table: what is anarchism? This study analyzes the …
This dissertation explores the connections of anarchism and violence, especially in the form of propaganda by the deed. The existing scholarship on this subject either focuses on national/ethnic units, or subsumes it under the dubious heading of "terrorism." I aim to present an …
In Poultry Market at Gisors (1885), Camille Pissarro surveys the marketplace of this Normandy town, studying the commercial hustle and bustle of the scene. He depicts an ensemble of vendors surrounded by a sprawling market crowd, placing these purveyors at the center of countrys…
The idea of “cheap” is fascinating in its contradictions and misdirection. Cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap resources… “cheap” as a descriptor under neoliberal capitalism is always a signifier of a lie. Whether it be in stolen wages or environmental destruction, there are always…
Occasional Interior Anarchisms emerge as pockets of deviance from social codes and laws governing society outside their walls. Often adapting un-utilized infrastructure toward a more playful and free agenda, these organic, consensus-driven programs reflect a human instinct to oc…