‘Absolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom.’ —John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism
‘A guide to a fulfilling militant life.’ —Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly
‘Rigid radicalism’ is the congealed and debilitating practices that suck life and inspiration from the fight for a better world. Joyful Militancy investigates how fear, self-righteousness, and moralism infiltrate and take root within liberation movements, what to do about them, and ultimately how tenderness and vulnerability can thrive alongside fierce militant commitment.
Carla Bergman co-edited Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook For Youth.
Nick Montgomery is an organizer and writer currently at Queen’s University.
Cuprins
Introduction
– Intro to intro
– Questions
– Affirmative theory
– Joy and the Spinozan current
– Joyful militancy and emergent powers
– Beyond optimism and pessimism
– On anarchism
– The beginning of a conversation
– Structure of the book
Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy and Joy
– Resistance and joy are everywhere
– Sadness and subjection
– Joy is not happiness
– The power of joy
– Militant about joy
– Starting from where people find themselves
Chapter 2: Friendship, freedom, ethics
– Introduction
– Friendship is the root of freedom
– From morality to ethics
– What can friendship do?
– Solidarity begins at home
– The ethics of affinity in anarchism
– Connecting Spinozan current to Indigenous resurgence
– Friendship and freedom have sharp edges
– The active shaping of our worlds together
Chapter 3: Trust and Responsibility as Common Notions
– Trust and responsibility as common notions
– (Mis)trust and (ir)responsibility under Empire
– Empire’s radical monopoly over life
– Towards conviviality
– Emergent trust and responsibility: three examples
– Indigenous struggles
– Anti-violence and transformative justice
– Deschooling and youth liberation
– The power of baseline trust
– Infinite trust and responsibilities?
– Holding common notions gently
Chapter 4: Rigid Radicalism
– Introduction
– It’s those people
– The paradigm of government
– Decline and counterrevolution
– The perils of comparing
– Having good politics
Chapter 5: Sources of Rigid Radicalism, Sources of Joy
– Introduction
– Ideology
– Ideology in Leninism
– Ideology in anarchism
– Critique of ideology as such
– Undoing ideology
– Morality, fear, and ethical attunement
– Christian origins of morality
– Morality in movements
– Warding off morality with common notions
– You’re so paranoid, you probably think this section is about you
– Lack-finding, perfectionism, schooling, walking
– Radical perfectionism and paranoid reading
– Holding ambivalence
– The limits of critique: from paranoia to potential
– Towards new encounters
Outro
– Rigid radicalism can be hard to talk about
– Three modes of attunement
Appendix 1: Feeling Powers Growing Within Yourself: An Interview with Silvia Federici
Appendix 2: Breaking down the walls around each other: the transformative power of trust – An Interview with Kelsey Cham Corbett
Glossary of Terms
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Despre autor
Carla Bergman: Carla Bergman has worked with youth in alternatives-to-education projects for over fifteen years. She co-directed the film: Common Notions: Handbook Not Required and co-edited the Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook For Youth.
Nick Montgomery: Nick Montgomery is an organizer and writer currently finishing a Ph D in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. His work focuses on alternatives to the capitalism, gender violence, settler colonialism, and ecological degradation.
Hari Alluri: Hari Alluri, an award-winning poet, educator, and teaching artist, is the author of Carving Ashes (2013), The Promise of Rust (2016), and The Flayed City (2017)
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