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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"anarchism"”.
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(Generic Pronoun) Creates: Anarchism, Authorship, Experiment
… theory merges the primary concerns of classical anarchism with shifts in the conceptions of power and the State born out of poststructuralism. Focusing specifically on the ways that the experimental text complicates the traditional relationship between author and reader, my project emphasizes how …
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Individualist Anarchism in France and Its Legacy
… movement, namely French individualist anarchism, which was most active during the Belle Époque. I provide a synthetical examination of the individualist tradition that challenges dominant historical narratives and dissolves the notion of a stable, fixed, and unitary anarchist subject …
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Constructions Of Anarchism In British Fiction, 1885-1914
This thesis examines constructions of anarchism in selected fiction published in Britain between 1885 and 1914. It does so in the larger context of ideological constructions of anarchism within late-Victorian and Edwardian media, popular and literary culture. It also makes use, particularly in its …
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Evading Representation: The Literature of Contemporary U.S. Anarchism
… philosophy. This approach takes anarchism’s critique of representation as the basis for a new approach to texts which casts them as tools in political struggle. Anarchist texts are read for the political effects they produce, and the ways representation is negotiated and, to …
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Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
<p>This dissertation explores the influence of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy and politics of anarchism guided major aesthetic debates about modern …
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Russian populism and its relations with anarchism 1870-1881
In both Soviet and Western historiography, Russian populism (narodnichestvo) has been studied more or less in isolation from the broader socialist movement in Europe. The aim of this thesis is to show that although it undoubtedly possessed characteristics peculiar to Russia, the populist movement …
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"Anarchism and the press in Lima: The case of ""Los Parias"""
"This thesis explores the relationship between the anarchist press and the nascent labor movement in the Republic of Peru in the beginning of the twentieth century. The first anarchist newspaper that appeared in Peru in 1904, titled Los Parias, provides a detailed look into the ways in which this …
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Capillaries of force: constituent power, porous sovereignty, and the ethics of anarchism
… but it failed so far to consistently incorporate anarchism into its conceptual repertoire. Conversely, anarchist theorists have demonstrated only a limited interest in joining debates about international politics. This researchproject addresses the incomplete and partial mobilization of anarchist …
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Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And The End(s) Of Radical Politics
… critique of rhetoric and the critique of anarchism made by both Marxism and liberalism. I investigate this problematic by taking up a genealogical examination of anarchism in America that begins with America's founding and concludes with a discussion of the resurgence of …
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Night-glory: cut-up literature, anarchism, and the question of the subject
… and voluntary cooperation. Counter to anarchism’s individualist and socialist traditions, which consistently install the humanist subject at the center of radical thought, the form of those cut-up works represents a post-anarchist ethics that assumes the subject’s anarchic and …
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Federica Montseny and Mujeres libres : two approaches to women's emancipation based in Spanish anarchism
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1987.
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'Occupying' Anarchism and Discovering the Means for Social Justice: Interrogating the Anarchist Turn in 21st Century Social Movements
The purpose of this thesis is to take the individual on a journey about what it is like to be engaged in radical anti-systemic activism in the 21st Century. Along this journey the reader will learn about the experiences of what it was like to join the Occupy movement"an anti-systemic movement that …
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OVERLY-GREAT EXPECTATIONS: WHY POLITICAL VOLUNTARISM IS IMPOSSIBLE, WHY PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISM IS UNNECESSARY, AND WHY THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM
… does not happen in the real world, philosophical anarchism must be accepted. I argue that classical consent cannot happen in the individual/state relationship. Its requirements can be met in some private relationships because of their special background conditions. The individual/state …
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Anarchisms and the Short Story in Fin-de-Siècle France, 1871-1901
… the relationship between the short story and anarchism at the end of the nineteenth century. In doing so it interrogates the tendency in existing scholarship on anarchism and literature during this period to rely on analogies between literature and the bomb. This is partly due to a lingering …
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The Event of Revolution
… A new theory of revolution (called Dynamic Anarchism) is drawn from theorists who theorize events (called `Evental thinkers'). It is claimed that revolutions should be seen as separate from the world, and thus are incommensurable, unpredictable, and indiscernible from the state. Outside the …
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Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion
… review of the emergence or function of anarchism in critical dystopias. My objective is not so ambitious; my aim is to plot the evolution of each rebellion within its own context. In the end, I hope to broaden an understanding of Anarchy and Anarchism: not an understanding that congeals …
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An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s
This thesis aims to investigate the way in which anarchism - both as a means of theoretical political dissent as well as a practical tool of shock - was transformed from the `chaotic' intent of first wave punk towards a more informed political ideology in the emerging `anarcho-punk' scene of the …
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
… major tendencies of nineteenth century European anarchism, while also providing a broad geographical and chronological cross section.</p> <p>Their perspectives on historical change are shown to be an essential determinant of their anarchist philosophies, particularly their thoughts on mass …
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The Processes of Degeneration: The Spanish and Russian Revolutions Compared.
… theoretical approaches to revolution—Marxism and Anarchism—operating under similar structural conditions (underdevelopment, civil war, and crisis) follow parallel trajectories of what I call the processes of degeneration. These are the mechanisms through which the democratic visions of direct …
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