Recent comments in /f/Geography
Onetrick wrote
The ideal of the anarchist is thus a mere summing up of what he considers to be the next phase of evolution.
What does this mean?
Crown_of_Ice wrote
I think even if I were an anarchist (I don't know what I am), I don't think I would have arrived at those conclusions.
subrosa wrote (edited )
I like it better when Kropotkin doesn't imitate Marx.
["Imitate" is a strong word. "Resemble" or something probably would have done it.]
kin wrote
We can say shit about it but Kropotkin imho is adding very much to "anarchist theory" whatever it means.
It's not complete but it lays out a path. About geography itself I always liked Reclus better
Minnow OP wrote
Reply to Geografia - biblioteca terra livre by Minnow
Their virtual library has a few geographic texts in portuguese.
Minnow OP wrote
Reply to “We Are the Inferno”: A Conversation on the Anarchist Roots of Geography with Simon Springer and Alexander Reid Ross by Minnow
I was today years old when I found out that Alexander Reid Ross is a geographer also
Minnow OP wrote
Posting this mostly for historical interest. Along with Marxists appearing to erase anarchist geographer history, I had never heard of Debord doing geography until today.
I'm interested otherwise because of the term 'psychogeography', introduced here and further elaborated in other Situationist texts and in the journal "Les Lèvres nues" - "Naked Lips". Psychogeography was a concept used to explore how the geographic environment influences emotions and behaviors - for Situationists it was tied up in the practice of the dérive.
Minnow OP wrote
Reply to Deleuze, Guattari and Anarchy by Minnow
Shows how Proudhon was doing a lot of stuff that Deleuze and Guattari do and claims the latter two for anarchism. Includes thinking through Deleuze's abandonment of marxist History for geography.
tuesday wrote
Reply to comment by Minnow in For anarcho-geography! by kano
Anyway, if you want to dislike Marxism more
Say no more.
Minnow wrote
Reply to comment by kin in Why a Radical Geography Must be Anarchist by Pax
They named a volcano after him.
Minnow wrote (edited )
Reply to For anarcho-geography! by kano
The first article in this boxing match, ‘Why a Radical Geography Must Be Anarchist’, (is on the library also and) got a response from Harvey, who is the big daddy Marxist of geography since the 70s when Marxists appropriated radical geography. He's loved by Marxists despite being old-school Marxist in the present (which is nothing short of disgusting). Harvey's response to Springer really showed a total lack of understanding of anarchism, which can make you despondent about the close-mindedness of Marxists. Anyway, if you want to dislike Marxism more, read this exchange.
Simon is also quite good at critiquing them, and has an insurrectionist politics ala Stirner and Deleuze, though he''ll disagree with most people here on a few things.
Fool wrote
Reply to For anarcho-geography! by kano
People were not very happy with the Anarcho-cartographers.
"This big ocean is boring, I'm gonna add a continent here."
Minnow moderator wrote
Reply to Why a Radical Geography Must be Anarchist by Pax
Just wanted to say, this title isn't a serious one that's actually trying to claim that geography can only be anarchist, it's mocking some Marxist who wrote a paper who said that about Marxism.
Fool OP wrote
Reply to comment by kin in Concrete is mostly sand, which has to come from the ocean. by Fool
Poor sand, I'm sorry I said those awful things. Please forgive me!
kin wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Fool in Concrete is mostly sand, which has to come from the ocean. by Fool
You hate sand because it comes from the sea.
I hate it because it comes from the Desert™
We are not the same
Fool OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted38258 in Concrete is mostly sand, which has to come from the ocean. by Fool
...and it gets everywhere.
I hate sand the rapid spread of oceans.
asterism wrote
Reminds me of those "inverted earth" maps.
moonlune wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by !deleted38258 in Concrete is mostly sand, which has to come from the ocean. by Fool
And none used in concrete come from the ocean lmao
kin wrote
Reply to Why a Radical Geography Must be Anarchist by Pax
Elisee Reclus have interesting stuff, I will look again into it
Pax OP wrote
Reply to Why a Radical Geography Must be Anarchist by Pax
Radical geographers have been preoccupied with Marxism for four decades, largely ignoring an earlier anarchist tradition that thrived a century before radical geography was claimed as Marxist in the 1970s. When anarchism is considered, it is misused as a synonym for violence or derided as a utopian project. Yet it is incorrect to assume anarchism as a project, which instead reflects Marxian thought. Anarchism is more appropriately considered a protean process that perpetually unfolds through the insurrectionary geographies of the everyday and the prefigurative politics of direct action, mutual aid, and voluntary association. Unlike Marxism’s stages of history and revolutionary imperative, which imply an end state, anarchism appreciates the dynamism of the social world. In staking a renewed anarchist claim for radical geography, I attend to the divisions between Marxism and anarchism as two alternative socialisms, wherein the former positions equality alongside an ongoing flirtation with authoritarianism, while the latter maximizes egalitarianism and individual liberty by considering them as mutually reinforcing. Radical geographers would do well to reengage anarchism as there is a vitality to this philosophy that is missing from Marxian analyses that continue to rehash ideas—such as vanguardism and a proletarian dictatorship—that are long past their expiration date.
Minnow OP wrote
Reply to Current anarchist thinking in geography | Actualités de la pensée anarchiste en géographie by Minnow
Interesting also for being a set of academic texts experimenting with using total anonymity for its authors