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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I’ll cast a wide-ish net with my response so there’s more for people to work with.

I’m probably most interested in works that are compatible and are made compatible with anarchism - they allow anarchism to go beyond itself.

Works that draw out the affinity between poststructuralist thinking and anarchism

If we’re talking about theoretical backbone, going from there and using those poststructuralist tools anarchistically is something I like to do. For example, on the feminist side of things and with ethics in general, the work of Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Simone Bignall. Then there’s race theory and Achille Mbembe (Critique of Black Reason, Necropolitics, On the Postcolony), Alexander Weheliye (Habeas Viscus).

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

(Other cool people like Sara Ahmed. Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak is a classic essay. Arun Saldanha’s Psychedelic White. Stuff Zoé Samudzi writes about anarchism. Saba Mahmoud’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age. Pretty much everything in w/decolonial is useful to anarchists even though most of it is not explicitly anarchist.)

These I actually haven’t read but I’ll list them here just so people know that they exist:

Postanarchists and how they read other theorists/philosophers,
like Ranciere (e.g. Todd May’s The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating Equality),
or Spinoza (e.g. Daniel Colson’s Anarchist Readings of Spinoza),
or Bataille (e.g. Duane Rouselle’s Georges Bataille’s post-anarchism)
There's also the more well-known I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite! - Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition.

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