“With the way people usually are,” Nietzsche wrote in 1882, “it takes a name to make something visible at all.” What name could we give to our present to make it more visible? The Disneyland amusement park? The crystal palace?… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In his Dewey lectures from 2013, Noam Chomsky embraces anarchism as, what he calls, “a reasonable approximation of the common good.”[1] He traces modern anarchism historically to the classical liberal tradition that emerged in the Enlightenment,… Continue Reading
By Che Gossett There’s a wealth of interdisciplinary inquiry and study, weaving together cognitive science, political theory, biolinguistics, history (and much more!) as always, that you present readers and audiences through your work in general, and in the 2013 Dewey… Continue Reading
From Noam Chomsky for the Utopia 6/13 seminar I am attaching something you might circulate, particularly since it was a lecture at Columbia: the third part of the attached, on the common good. Dewey lectures from a few years ago.… Continue Reading
By Che Gossett and Bernard E. Harcourt After Noam Chomsky presents his preliminary thoughts on the importance of planting “the seeds of the future in our present,” as he writes in his Preface to Michael Albert’s book Practical Utopias, we… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Many commentators dismiss anarchism as utopian… One might, however, argue rather differently: that at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The revolution, when it comes, will start where it always has: with groups of like-minded people, yoked together by shared geography, a shared economic stake, or a shared belief, who come together to try to… Continue Reading
By Télémaque Masson-Récipon “We’re so self-important, so self-important. Everybody’s gonna save something now: “Save the trees! Save the bees! Save the whales! Save those snails!” and the greatest arrogance of all: “Save the planet!” What?! Are these fucking… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt His utopia is that of a new civilization that masters the time of life and of labor. […] Based on a critique of contemporary work, which is constantly being reduced or degraded into precarious, intermittent and… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Today’s organizers — not activists, thank you — make clear that they are not black bloc participants brawling with police or hippies plotting a love-in. They are inspired by a tradition of professional revolutionaries, by Lenin’s exhortation that “unless the… Continue Reading