I’ve been having an ongoing discussion about the the distinction between ‘political’ action, and ‘personal’ or ‘lifestyle’ action with a friend of mine. Lifestylism is considered a political slur amongst anarchist circles, and is almost as bad as petit-bourgeois is considered in Marxist circles. However, I feel the debate around it is really quite ill-thought [...]
Category Archives: radical theory
Revelation Vertigo
9th April 2007 – 11:28 am
From Fifth Estate… worth a read:
Revelation Vertigo
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomy is both the goal sought after and that whose presence–virtual–let us say, has to be supposed at the outset of an analysis or a political movement. This virtual presence is the will to autonomy, the will to be free. – Cornelius Castoriadis
There exists a tendency, shared across [...]
Notes on the Possibilities and Limitations of Anarcho-syndicalism
21st January 2007 – 4:52 pm
The post on Unite and the ensuing discussion got me thinking about unions as a form of class organisation, and the possibilities they offer to a revolutionary project, as well as their limitations. I’ve also been thinking that some form of modified anarcho-syndicalism, with a presence beyond work and in the community, could well prove [...]
A Vision of Queer Liberation?
15th January 2007 – 3:41 pm
In a response to my last post on Conceptualising Queer Oppression, @ndy raised a simple question that I’ve found surprisingly difficult to answer:
what would a ‘queer’ world look like? and, further, given this vision of a future imagined community, what forms of authority and power would be abolished / in what ways would they [...]
Conceptualising Queer Oppression
14th January 2007 – 6:10 pm
Please note: This is me thinking out loud.
Having come to the realisation that compulsory heterosexuality relies on an underlying level of violence has helped me understand my own oppression a lot more. It seems that just like patriarchy requires rape and sexual violence for its maintenance, so too does queer oppression require instances of physical [...]
