![]() Also, this negativity is turned against this affirmative tone to develop a more sharply-focused political analysis of theory, and to suggest the possible politics emerging from a relational thinking of negativity.ģ. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press 2004 ISBN/ASIN: 0972819649 ISBN-13: 9780972819640 Number of pages: 118 Description: Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Dependent on negativity, despite their claims to affirmation, this dependence allows a critique of the reliance on affirmation. Typically, Anarchist theory prioritizes the ability of groups to self-organize, often with situational leadership based on justified authority, and to create social networks and cultural. ![]() Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Critically reconstructing this ‘affirmationism’ through the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, the book also recovers from their work a disavowed thinking of negativity. Anarchism By David Graeber Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophyeverywhere, that is, except the academy. Although it was often developed to resist the corrosive effects of contemporary capitalism, this work argues that affirmationism remains bound to its ideological coordinates in its emphasis on production, creativity, and invention. Despite all the conflicts and ‘wars’ of contemporary theory, this tone remains an unstated point of unification. It identifies and presents an analysis of the dominant tone of ‘affirmationism’ in contemporary theory: the insistence on starting from the affirmation of metaphysical ontologies, the inventive potential of the subject, the necessity for the production of novelty, and a concomitant suspicion of the negative and negativity. ![]() Abstract: This book aims to rehabilitate a thinking of negativity within and against the usual forms of contemporary Continental Theory. ![]()
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