Tuesday, 23 June 2015

The Proudhonian branch of anarchy vs the Stirnerian branch

Anarchism is about framing anarchy within a set of elective positions and proposed solutions propelled by organization(ism). Anarchy is about orientation not organization. We don't organize for sex, we orientate toward and around it. Anarchy is no different.
This is essentially the difference between the Proudhonian branch of anarchy and the Stirnerian branch. Political-economic praxis on the one hand, philosophical-aesthetic praxis on the other.

Anarchism vs Anarchy

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

The chains of freedom

Freedom as a reification comes out of a post bicameral language of self reflection. While the post mythological freedom philosophies can be very problematic I disagree with the sublimation to God and community that you are suggesting. For one thing the rise of the Godhead  represented a decline from a more relational human community that was not so symbolically compulsive and sublimating. Essentially the ancient state was made possible by this behavior as the post leftist a-civilization anarchists rightly point out. The problem is the objective weight of history in that the rise of literate beings made self reflection possible but also gave rise to new apparatuses of control.

I think the answer is to try and key in on an individuating processes while also not feeding progressive objectively constituting forms of information registers(easier said then done perhaps). For me the approach I take would be the Zen approach combined with an anarchic indigenous orientation. The bioregional movement has some promise in this regard. 

(A response to Eric Orwoll)  www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-laMdszIBI

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

On General Intercourse

Throughout the history of human sensations there have been 2 familial archetypes, those who plan and those who play. This runs from individuals through collectives.  Playing of course preceded planning. It was the primordial human condition, the naked neotenous ape in a state of perpetual play and intercourse. Planning came much later, and what inevitably followed was prohibition and scarcity.

Indeed the etymological root definition of economy tells you all you need to know about it, Household planning. Is there anyway to redeem such a deformity of development? Is the general economy as proposed by Battaile and others the redemptive direction to go in?

Saturday, 24 May 2014

To the Anarch then

It is time for noble archetypical paths not taken. Indeed since 1845 this has been the case. The marriage of anarchy in approximation to(for or against) political economy(anarchism) has been an abysmal failure. Consider this to be my divorce from the naked but still political still positional anarchist.

Where does the Anarch come into all this? It is postulated from 3 figures to my mind. Max Stirner, Renzo Novatore and Ernst Junger. The latter is the man who really coined the term. While me and him have some differences I am interested in an intellectual fusion of his concept with the Negational force of Novatore. One is active the other passive, both are necessary.

Stirner is the key postulate in all of this. The political-economic anarchists have been a step back in comparison for too long now. They always have and always will represent the naked heterogeneous entities of organizational modernity and civilization. Their actions are always inevitably clothed by the enclosing homogenizers of formal ideology. Revolutions really are Chinese wardrobes, out with the old in with the new. I used to opine the hard work of anarchists being undone by the emergent power players. I now accept this as inevitably interwoven within the structure of political power and revolution itself. The anarchists at their best represent relaxed human experimentation and not political intensification as is always the story of revolutions past, present and future. The Anarch is a RENAISSANCE expression and not a revolutionary position. His violence if engaged is singular, specific and intimate as opposed to positionally and algorithmically structured.

So here's to expression over position, spirit over matter, mythology over modernity.

Here's to the Anarch