1. An Exchange between John Griffin and Takis Fotopoulos
(Concept/Polemics)

... to reconciling "mind" ― my mind at least ― with everything else, a symbiosis between Anarchism and cutting edge science. With this rather heady methodology at the back of...

2. Bourgeois Anarchism and Authoritarian Democracies
(Concept/Anarchism)

Felix Stalder: Bourgeois Anarchism and Authoritarian Democracies. (2008.) Published with the permission of the author. Source: First Monday. Abstract Digital communication is profou

3. Between Art and Anarchism; Horisontalism in New Social Practices
(Concept/Anarchism)

Sue Bell Yank: Between Art and Anarchism; Horisontalism in New Social Practices : Revolutionary Autonomous Communities and Artist’s for Social Justice. (2010.) This article is licensed unde

4. Outline of an Economic Model for an Inclusive Democracy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ril Carter, Authority and Democracy (London: Routledge, 1979), Chapt. 2. [30] Giovanni Baldelli, Social Anarchism (New York: Penguin, 1972), pp. 144–45. [31] Takis Fotopoulos, “T...

5. Decipher the Future
(Concept/Anarchism)

...t there is another main character: Kate Austin, a friend of Emma Goldman and an unsung heroine of American anarchism, who lived on that same farm in the late nineteenth century. Her personal papers...

6. Gift(wrap)ing New Media (in an Authentic Chilkat Blanket)
(Concept/Anarchism)

...the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tradition of punk, indy and craft cultures as well as the politico-philosophy of anarchism.   Ryan Griffis: Gift(wrap)ing New Media (in an Authentic Chilkat Blanket)...

7. The Principles of Anarchism
(Concept/Roots)

Lucy Parsons: The Principles of Anarchism. (1886.) Comrades and Friends: I think I cannot open my address more appropriately than by stating my experience in my long connection with the refo

8. Transformational Society
(Concept/Anarchism)

... have retained aspects of the old hippie movement, but have integrated new areas, for example punk values of anarchism, feminism, and applications of technology. From the Hippies to Cybersociety ...

9. Conversation with Michel Bauwens by Richard Poynder
(Concept/Gift Economy)

...pen Source peer governance model, software developers have demonstrated the practicality and desirability of anarchism. The choice is simple MB: Like many social phenomena P2P can be interpr...

10. The Role of Information Systems in Governments
(Concept/Polemics)

...with people wearing balaclavas and throwing rocks at the police, this is a misconception because even though anarchism regards governments as redundant and harmful, in its essence it is a pacifistic i...

11. Getting to grips with the economy
(Concept/Anarchism)

.... Does any proposal exist for a libertarian economy? Examining what the "Founding Fathers" of Anarchism have to say on the question we get contradictory answers. After decades of silenc...

12. Anarchism and American Traditions
(Concept/Roots)

Voltairine de Cleyre: Anarchism and American Traditions. (1909.) American traditions, begotten of religious rebellion, small self-sustaining communities, isolated conditions, and hard pioneer lif

13. Anarchy and Christianity
(Concept/Anarchism)

...ame a head of state, and often acted more as such than as head of the church. [3] If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, antinationalist, anticapitalist, moral, and antidemocrat...

14. How to Abolish Money
(Concept/Anarchism)

...binations can be seen as a good possibility to combine the strengths of various economic systems. Also, anarchism being what it is, there won’t be a single economy. Various economic systems...

15. Libertarian Communism
(Concept/Roots)

... its goal of liberation. This is no vague ideal to cherish: it is a battlefront. The ideal is in the form of anarchism, which supplies the guidance and the motivating force. Libertarian Communism...

16. Freeing the Mind
(Concept/Anarchism)

...does not even try. There are reasons, which I have explored in my writing, including in the piece "Anarchism Triumphant,'' that production of executable software without property rel...

17. Society Without a State
(Concept/Roots)

...n another form, and that therefore the system I am both analyzing and advocating is not “really” anarchism. This sort of criticism can only involve us in an endless and arid dispute over s...

18. The Paradox of Anarchism
(Concept/Roots)

Herbert Read: The Paradox of Anarchism. (1941.)   The highest perfection if society is found in the union if order and anarchy. Proudhon It has been the fashion, especially among o

19. Indivualist or Philosophical Anarchism
(Concept/Roots)

Victor Yarros: Indivualist or Philosophical Anarchism. (1897.)   The individualistic or philosophical anarchists favor the abolition of 'the State' and government of man, by man. The

20. Anarchism as a Theory of Organization
(Concept/Roots)

Colin Ward: Anarchism as a Theory of Organization. (1966.)   You may think in describing anarchism as a theory of organisation I am propounding a deliberate paradox: "anarchy" you

21. Libertarian Municipalism
(Concept/Anarchism)

...he found Marxist-based theory to provide an insufficient base for creating this theory. Instead he looked to anarchism, in particular to a form of anarchism that he calls social anarchism. When I say ...

22. Anarchist Consensual Democracy
(Concept/Anarchism)

...-poetry, libertarian and anarchist literature, and political texts. In the more than 300 pages of "Anarchismus und Konsens" (2002), I answered the question of the anarchist principle of...

23. Viva Las Xmas
(Concept/Gift Economy)

Larry Harvey: Viva Las Xmas. (2002.) Published with the permission of the Burnig Man site. Hi everybody. Thank you. I usually talk about the flamboyant aspects of Burning Man. These are wha

24. The gift economy and the sustainable community
(Concept/Gift Economy)

Jesse James Retherford: The gift economy and the sustainable community. (2009.) Published with the permission of the author. In an impersonal market economy, individuals are taught to create

25. Libertarian Property and Privatization
(Concept/Anarchism)

...iples can be applied in response to current issues. Notes [1] "Common Property in Free Market Anarchism: A Missing Link" http://www.anti-state.com/article.php?article_id=362 [Last ...

26. The Communitarian Anarchism of Gustav Landauer
(Concept/Roots)

Larry Gambone: The Communitarian Anarchism of Gustav Landauer. (2002.) BIOGRAPHY Gustav Landauer was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on April 7 1870 of bourgeois origin. At a very early age he ca

27. Anarchism and the Cooperative Ideal
(Concept/Anarchism)

Peter Staudenmaier: Anarchism and the Cooperative Ideal. (1997.) Published with the permission of the Institute for Social Ecology. Anybody who tries to talk politics within the cooperative mo

28. A "Political" Program for Anarchists
(Concept/Anarchism)

...at draws on the best and most enduring elements of classical liberalism, libertarian socialism and classical anarchism but adapts these to contemporary circumstances within a uniquely American cultura...

29. Counterculture, Cyberculture and Innovation
(Concept/Anarchism)

...e Creative Commons. A couple of years ago, at the end of this post on the crossover between Web 2.0 and anarchism, I wrote that I'd started reading Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cy...

30. From Counterculture to Cyberculture
(Concept/Polemics)

Fred Turner: From Counterculture to Cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. (2006.) Chapter 4: Taking the Whole Earth Digital In a 1995 spec