Issue 2013.2: Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies: Ontological Anarché: Beyond Materialism and Idealism, Issue 2013
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Radical theory has always been beset by
the question of ontology, albeit to varying degrees and under differing
conditions. In recent years, in particular, political metaphysics has
returned with force: the rise of Deleuze-influenced “new materialisms,”
along with post-/non-Deleuzian Speculative Realism (SR) and
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), all bear testament to this. In this same
period, anarchism has returned as a major influence on social movements
and critical scholarship alike. What, then, are some of the potential
resonances between these currents, particularly given that anarchism has
so often been understood/misunderstood as a fundamentally idealist
philosophy? This special issue of ADCS considers these questions in
dialogue with the new materialisms, Speculative Realism, and
Object-Oriented Ontology, in order to seek new points of departure. It
is in this sense that ADCS also strives to play a critical role recent
discussions in the wider political, cultural, and philosophical milieu.
Ontological Anarché: Beyond Materialism and Idealism
includes: EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Duane Rousselle and Jason Adams,
“Anarchism’s Other Scene: Materializing the Ideal and Idealizing the
Material” // ARTICLES: ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHÉ” Levi R. Bryant, “The
Gravity of Things: An Introduction to Onto-Cartography” — John W.M.
Krummel, “Reiner Schürmann and Cornelius Castoriadis: Between Ontology
and Praxis” — Hilan Bensusan, “Polemos Doesn’t Stop
Anywhere Short of the World: On Anarcheology, Ontology, and Politics” —
Ben Woodard, “Schellingian Thought for Ecological Politics” — Jason
Harman, “Ontological Anarché: Beyond Arché & Anarché“ //
ARTICLES: ANARCHIST ONTOLOGY: Salvo Vaccaro, “Critique of Static
Ontology and Becoming-Anarchy” — Jared McGeough, “Three Scandals in the
Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling: Ontology, Freedom, Mythology” — Joseph
Christian Greer, “Occult Origins: Hakim Bey’s Ontological
Post-Anarchism” — Tom Marling, “Anarchism and the Question of Practice:
Ontology in the Chinese Anarchist Movement, 1919-1927″ — Gregory
Kalyniuk, “Jurisprudence of the Damned: Deleuze’s Masochian Humour and
Anarchist Neo-Monadology” // REVIEW ESSAY: Shannon Brincat, “The Problem
of an Anarchist Civil Society” — Mohammed A. Bamyeh, “A Response to
Shannon Brincat” // BOOK REVIEW: Anthony T. Fiscella, “Christian Anarchism” // INTERVIEW: Christos Stergiou interviews Levi Bryant.
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Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (ADCS), edited by
Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren, is an international, open-access
journal devoted to the study of new and emerging perspectives in
anarchist thought and practice from or through a cultural studies
perspective. The interdisciplinary focus of the journal presumes an
analysis of a broad range of cultural phenomena, the development of
diverse methodological traditions, as well as the investigation of both
macro-structural issues and the micrological practices of “everyday
life.” ADCS is an attempt to bring anarchist thought into contact with
innumerable points of connection.