A Wrap: Organizing Anarchism

Shantz, Jeff

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“…Not only is anarchism attracting renewed interest in an era of diminished hopes, lack of faith in politics, the decline of neoliberal legitimacy and financial crisis (Bowen and Purkis, 2004;Purkis and Bowen, 2004;Springer, 2013) but punk itself is said to remain a critical and oppositional culture and identity, making punk's utopian sensibilities of contemporary relevance (Donaghey, 2020b;Wilkinson, 2016). On the other hand, punk has also been critiqued for commodification and elitism, having morphed into more of a comfortable counterculture than a biting political force (Donaghey, 2020a;Shantz, 2020;Worley, 2017). Today, in an era again tainted with divisions based on national identity, the 50th anniversary of the start of the Troubles in 2019 served as a stark reminder of the implications of an escalation of socio-political disagreements.…”

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“…With the intertwining of anarchism and punk long recognised, and punk now commonly described as a subculture of anarchism (Donaghey, 2020a;Shantz, 2020), the past decade has seen calls for revitalised theorising with respect to anarchist geographies (Springer, 2013) and further interrogation of the relationship between punk and anarchism (Donaghey, 2020a). Anarchism is an especially difficult ideology to define (Franks, 2013), with internal differentiations commonly drawn with respect to its characterisation as individualist or social, its orientation to class or lifestyle issues, and its application to feminist, black, queer and other specific forms of oppression (Donaghey, 2020a(Donaghey, , 2020bShantz, 2020, Williams, 2007Worley, 2017). Punk, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016 (Stewart, 2019), is similarly diverse in its definition and expression, with some forms engaging to different degrees with critiques of class and counter-culture utopianism (Wilkinson, 2016), punk in the UK being deemed more explicitly political than in the USA (Worley, 2017), and punk being variously considered to be defined from without, for example by the (music) media (Worley, 2017) or from within, as a coming together of likeminded individuals as an implicit religion (Stewart, 2022a(Stewart, , 2022b.…”

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Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music

Smith

Banfield

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper argues for incorporation of attitude into geographical work on affect. We do so through an engagement with affect in musical experiences and adopting as our focus punk music in Northern Ireland during the 1970s. Through a combination of lyrical analysis and in-depth interviews with some of those involved in the punk scene in Northern Ireland at that time, we find that affective responses to musical experiences can be translated into attitude, shifting from intentional expression, e.g., through clothing or demeanour, to habituation and pre-reflective persistence at the level of the everyday, extending the duration of affect and interweaving the cognitive and pre-reflective. Further, through our emphasis on the temporalities of affect, our focus on punk music in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles identifies the attitudinal prefiguration of an anarchist utopia. However, due to the habituation of attitude, this political aspect becomes invisible to and unacknowledged by those exhibiting and instantiating it. This paper extends the affective moment into durable attitudinal dispositions, unsettles rigid notions of separation between the cognitive and pre-reflective, questions the radical openness of affect in the face of the regulatory power of attitude, provides theoretical insights into punk as instantiating an attitudinal form of utopia, and contributes to growing engagement with the political potential of affect.

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“…These structures function specifically to allow this mode of organization to dominate, by perpetually reinventing itself to favor consumerism. It is important to note that despite this, our societies also function based on mutual aid, since capitalism relies on a gendered division of labour to ensure that care work, like childcare and elder care, is done in the home and allows the labor market to function efficiently (Federici, 2019; Shantz, 2020).…”

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What can anarchism do for nursing?

Martin

Laurin

2023

Nursing Philosophy

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The notion of mutual aid, which Peter Kropotkin introduced in the 19th century, goes against the logic of competition as a natural condition, and instead shows how mutual aid is a more important factor to consider for the survival and flourishing of a group. The best cooperation strategies allow organisms to adapt to different types of changes in their environment—and we have witnessed a lot of these changes since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic. This propensity towards cooperation is not a foreign concept, despite how it seems to be overshadowed by individualism in Western societies. These reflections then lead us to believe it is possible to apply the anarchist philosophical principle of mutual aid to our social organizations, rather than giving priority, again and again, to competition and professional hierarchies, especially in healthcare systems, and particularly in hospitals were the majority of nurses work. For us, anarchist philosophical precepts, including but not limited to mutual aid, can be the key to a more adequate functioning of healthcare institutions. Anarchism can help to imagine the first steps needed to take to gradually move away from ideologies that encourage competition, professional hierarchies, and illegitimate authority. In this paper, we will first explore some anarchist philosophical precepts before turning to mutual aid as it is currently conceptualised, then highlight several concrete ways it is visible in nursing, as well as ways it can be applied in hospitals, and healthcare systems.

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“…History shows that any radical belief comes with some sort of violence. On the other hand, as the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin famously wrote in 1842 (Shantz, 2010), "the passion for destruction is a creative passion," that is, destruction hides a call to build new realities. With both these viewpoints in mind, Wilde's nonmimetic conception of art as archetype can be applied to reconsider texts such as Cesare Pavese's Among Women Only (1949) and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), the former merely labeled as 'personal' and the latter as a 'semiautobiographical' novel.…”

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When life imitates art

Castelli

2022

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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When Oscar Wilde defiantly observed that life is imitation of art, literary criticism had found another role to the complicated relationship between literature and reality. The issue is most central in Cesare Pavese and Sylvia Plath, for their lives seemed to re-enact what their fictional characters in, respectively, Among Women Only and The Bell Jar, had attempted. The conscious manipulation of novelistic material into physical and mental events appears to prove correct Wilde's statement about the power of imitation. However, apart from the work of scholars who wrote on Pavese and Plath as an isolated case, the theory of life as imitation of art was never used to define the authors’ intention. Therefore, further theorization is necessary.

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A Wrap: Organizing Anarchism

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Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music

Grab it and change it, it’s yours: Affect, attitude and politics in 1970s Northern Irish punk music

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