May 2008
2 posts
Anarchism beyond Enlightenment
“As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.“ - Michel Foucault What can we salvage from the ruins of a dead political project like anarchism? Like the phoenix, anarchism contains an ember within itself that provides the seed for its own reawakening, for its own triumphant rebirth and flight into the very heart of...
Structures and Resistance
Every structure relies equally on its periphery as it does on its internal components. The development of a structure or institution is aided not exclusively by those forces that support it, but by those forces that oppose it and render opposition to it. The antithesis therefore renders the synthesis possible, and provides it with the grounding necessary for its development. This micro-political...
April 2008
1 post
The Overflowing Subject
The modern era is characterized by an organization of reality, the structuring of experience in the form of science and philosophy. Such structures claim to apply a universal epistemological or ontological structure across the pluralities of human existence, categorizing and incorporating elements into a system of linguistic hierarchy. However, it is my thesis that reality is ontologically...