Anarchy
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| description | A Journal of Desire Armed |
| Area of Expertise | Philosophy and Social Criticism |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Columbia Anarchist League, Berkeley (USA) |
| First edition | 1980 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Jason McQuinn |
| Web link | anarchymag.org |
| ISSN (print) | 1044-1387 |
Anarchy : A Journal of Desire Armed is an English-language anarchist magazine that is one of the most popular publications on anarchism in North America. The quarterly magazine has been published in different locations in the USA since 1980 . The orientation of the magazine within anarchism can be described as non- ideological and critical ; it is aimed at the broader public and is not designed as a theoretical journal.
"Toward a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation & the liberation of desire - for a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation and the liberation of desire."
history
The magazine was founded in 1980 by members of the Columbia Anarchist League from Columbia ( MO ) and appeared there for almost 15 years. Jason McQuinn , who is one of the founders of Anarchy and who initially wrote under the pseudonym Lev Chernyi , was the sole editor at the end of this time . McQuinn moved to New York in 1995 , where the magazine was published with members of the Autonomedia collective. With the decline of the independent wholesaler Fine Print , Anarchy almost had to be shut down. The magazine therefore returned to Columbia (MO) after only two issues from New York and was published there again by the Columbia Anarchist League , which was to remain so until 2006. As of 2008, Anarchy is published by a collective in Berkeley ( CA ).
The magazine is free of advertising . By Anarchy two books have been published: The Papalagi , the new edition of the translation of a book by Erich Scheurmann , and The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem , in German under the title Manual art of living for the younger generation appeared.
Alignment and authors
The publications in Anarchy are considered to be the pioneers of post-left anarchy , a newer current in anarchism that wants to emancipate itself from left ideologies , especially left authoritarianism . Post-left anarchy has especially developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the states it ruled , and is being promoted by Anarchy authors like Aragorn! and Lawrence Jarach (both part of the Berkeley collective), John Zerzan , Bob Black , and Wolfi Landstreicher (the latter also under the pseudonyms Feral Faun and Feral Ranter ).
John Zerzan is considered the best-known representative of anarcho-primitivism . Since primitivist authors have repeatedly published in the magazine, Anarchy has been labeled "primitivist" by left-wing critics such as Ruth Kinna . However, critiques of primitivism by McQuinn, Jarach, and others also appeared.
Bob Black is best known for his book The Abolition of Work , which has been translated into multiple languages and has appeared in various locations. The essay was first widely distributed as a supplement in Anarchy in 1986. Black has also published criticism of left and left anarchists such as Ward Churchill , Fred Woodworth , Chaz Bufe and Murray Bookchin in the magazine.
Wolfi vagabond writes now from the perspective of insurrectionary anarchism ( insurrectionary anarchism ), a flow of anarchism in the formal organizations such as trade unions or groups are rejected with a firm political program. Instead, direct action and informal organization including non-anarchists are promoted. The Insurrectionary anarchism was shaped by Renzo Novatore and Alfredo Bonanno , whose works Wolfi Landstreicher translated, and combine the sympathy for the general, spontaneous and sudden uprising with the egoism of Max Stirner .
Web links
- Official website of Anarchy
- Article by the Institute for Anarchist Studies : Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind ( January 2, 2006 memento in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Scheurmann (Attributed): Tuiavii's Way: A South Sea Chief's Comments on Western Society . With a foreword by Peter C. Cavelti. Legacy Editions, San Antonio (TX) 1997. ISBN 0-9682469-0-7 .
- ^ Raoul Vaneigem: The Revolution of Everyday Life . Rebel Press, Wellington (NZ) 2001. ISBN 0-946061-01-7 . Book text online (accessed on July 25, 2008)
- ↑ Bob Black: Abolition of Work and Other Essays . Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend (WA) 1986. ISBN 0-915179-41-5 . Text of the book (Retrieved July 25, 2008)