A perspective often overlooked is how the widespread denial of the Gaza genocide, dominant in both liberal and conservative mainstream politics, seamlessly dovetails into the post-truth discursive landscape of the far right. Drawing from my observations on how fascists disguise their ideology to appear palatable through the use of targeted obscurantism, the actions of those […]
Reclaiming Individualism
Leftists and left-liberals are wrong to diagnose individualism as a core driving mechanism of capitalism and to sweepingly ascribe a negative value to individualism. Capitalism is not, in any meaningful sense, an individualist ideology. It is a form of collectivism that relies on mass subordination and conformity to state and corporate structures. Since nascent mercantile […]
From Agency Erasure to Radical Subjectivity: Embracing Anarchist-Informed Intersectionality
The tension between individual agency and the structures that shape us has been a topic of debate in philosophy and sociology for decades. However, there is a disturbing trend emerging where some popular forms of social critique seem to ignore individual agency altogether, erasing our unique subjectivities in favor of a belief that we are […]
Beyond the Binary: Rethinking Ecological Food Sovereignty and Permaculture
While the ideas and concepts advocated by permaculture hold promise in terms of striving toward ecologically-geared food sovereignty, there are some issues with the polarizing ways in which its proponents often portray it. Oftentimes, permaculture is presented by counterposing it to industrial agriculture. The staggering socioecological horrors of statist industrial agriculture should not be understated; […]
False Freedom: The Rhetoric of Tyrants
Freedom-pretenders like to believe that freedom can exist in a vacuum, that their shallow and inconsistent definition of freedom is true and right. Their conception of freedom is dependent on a static, idealized vision of society which entails the unfreedom of Others. This should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that they betray the cause […]
Anarchism and Agency-Consequentialism: Partners in Liberation
Agency-consequentialism is a philosophical ethical framework developed by anarchist writer and activist William Gillis. It is a variant of consequentialism, a type of moral theory that holds that the rightness or wrongness of an action should be judged based on its consequences. Agency-consequentialism differs from traditional forms of consequentialism in that it places a particular […]
Toward a Poststructural Social Ecology
In recent years, the field of Social Ecology has experienced a reemergence in both environmentalist and anarchist milieus as a powerful tool for understanding the complex and dynamic relationship between humans and nature. Developed by Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology emphasizes the importance of understanding how social and ecological issues arise from domination and how they […]
On Anarchism, Technology, and Transhumanism
The more I wrestle with it, the more I become sympathetic to, if not a full-blown supporter of, anarchist-transhumanism. After much interrogation, the notion of technology as a neutral tool that can be leveraged to act as an oppressive method of control (to reduce agency and confine), an emancipatory tool (to resist domination, to expand […]