Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman

David Graeber's influential thinking was always at odds with the liberal and left-wing mainstream. Drawing on his huge theoretical and practical experience as an ethnologist and anthropologist, activist and anarchist, Graeber and his interlocutors develop a ramified genealogy of anarchist thought and possible perspectives for 21st-century politics.



Diverging from the familiar lines of historical anarchism, and against the background of movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Gilets jaunes, the aim is to provide new political impulses that go beyond the usual schemata of unavoidableness. The spontaneous and swift-moving polylogue shows Graeber as a spirited, unorthodox thinker and radical activist for whom the group can always achieve more than the individual.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

7 - 11 Foreword: A dialogue that doesn't cover up its traces (David Graeber)12 - 27 Introduction to anarchy-all the things it is not (David Graeber)27 - 34 Reins on the imagination-the illusion of impossibility (David Graeber)34 - 38 Revolutions in common sense (David Graeber)38 - 44 Feminist ethics in anarchy-working with incommensurable perspectives (David Graeber)45 - 49 The three characteristics of statehood and their independence (two for us, one for the cosmos) (David Graeber)49 - 52 America 1-not a democracy, never meant to be (David Graeber)53 - 65 America 2-the indigenous critique & freedom works fine but it's a terrible idea & ... (David Graeber)65 - 73 With great responsibility comes precarious tongue-tied intellectuals (David Graeber)73 - 78 Anthropology as art (David Graeber)78 - 80 Anthropology and economics (David Graeber)80 - 84 Freedom 1-which finite resources? (David Graeber)84 - 91 Freedom 2-property and Kant's chiasmic structure of freedom (David Graeber)92 - 9 8 Freedom 3-friendship, play and quantification (David Graeber)98 - 104 Freedom 4-critical realism, emergent levels of freedom (David Graeber)105 - 111 Freedom 5-negotiating the rules of the game (David Graeber)112 - 120 Play fascism (David Graeber)120 - 131 Leave, disobey, reshuffle (David Graeber)131 - 139 Great man theory and historical necessity (David Graeber)139 - 148 Theories of desire (David Graeber)148 - 150 Graeber reads MBK and proposes a three-way dialectic that ends in care (David Graeber)150 - 156 Art and atrocity (David Graeber)157 - 161 Vampires, cults, hippies (David Graeber)161 - 169 Utopia (David Graeber)169 - 184 Rules of engagement (David Graeber)185 - 186 Dual sovereignty (David Graeber)187 - 191 Against the politics of opinion (David Graeber)191 - 197 The world upside down (and the mind always upward) (David Graeber)197 - 204 God as transgression and anarchy as God (David Graeber)