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Chapter one examines the communiques of affinity group direct actionists to show how small-scale action takes on a mass culture adversary, irrespective of quantitative validation or discursive regulation. Chapter two begins with the all-encompassing scale of anti-civilization critique, and speculates on the possibility a fragmented, plurality of responses in light of North America’s border-caste system. Chapter three questions notions of centralization, citizenship, and the paternalism of State-based water infrastructure, to argue that water’s inherent and recalcitrant fluidity when combined with an indigenous perspective forms genderfluid negation of colonial borders: to live alongside water, not in spite of it, is to decolonize and self-determine. Chapter four interprets the Common Ground Collective in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through the lens of dweller control and moral nihilism. The fact that life is vulnerable to the securing of basic needs is also the condition through which to affirm autonomy. Themes of decentralization and scale arise in novel ways to show that antinomies do not close down choice in a simple “either/or” logic, but rather that lived reality exceeds logical propositions to open up a sea of potentials to any and all who strive to live against the State and Capital. Rather than fetishizing decentralization or small-scale action as solutions in themselves, this dissertation shows the breadth of possibilities available to anti-authoritarians."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["The Antinomies of Decentralization and Scale for North American Anarchist Thought"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Lavin, Chad","English"],"dc:creator":["Bomba, Chris"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:47:24Z","2019","2019-06-06 17:27:43"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation posits that notions of decentralization and scale within 21st century North American anarchist thought form a set of unspoken antinomies, that is, independently valid, yet logically incompatible approaches. 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