Author: Jimmy Casas Klausen File Type: pdf How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practices, this volume reveals the central values and tactics of anarchism that remain with us, practiced even in the most unlikely and impossible contexts. **Review It is clear that only the abolition of the state structure can solve a number of oppressions, not least in relation to undocumented migrants. This book invites us to think of emigration not only in the perspective that the world is our homeland, but also because this population movement is a character of dissent from the left of both countries in respect of the so-called home, as Banu Bargu suggests. In short this book does not fail to stir the debate it deserves. (Refractions) This is a unique and exciting collection of inquiries into anarchism and political theory, anarchism as political theory. Martel and Klausens introduction usefully situates anarchism in relation to contemporary political struggles. The authors make use of a wide variety of political theorists, including Foucault, Arendt, Benjamin, and Nietzsche, to discern and develop anarchist themes. (Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawaii) Rather than simply rehashing classical anarchism, this work offers a genuinely original and innovative re-engagement with the properly heterogeneous and heretical dimension of anarchist thought, emphasising its untimely timeliness. With the category of critical anarchism, anarchism is taken beyond the epistemological boundaries of the old masters like Bakunin and Kropotkin, revitalized through a dialogue with alternative perspectives such as post-structuralism, and reconsidered in the context of todays struggles against neo-colonialism and global capitalism. Critical anarchism thus brings to light the diversity and liveliness of anarchism, showing that it is more productively thought as a horizon of becoming. Above all, in pointing to the potential of anarchism as an alternative to the failures of statism on the one hand, and capitalism on the other, the book reminds us of the original libertarian-egalitarian impulse at the heart of radical politics and thus makes a vital contribution to what I see as the fundamental political challenge of today reclaiming the ethical project of how not to be governed from the grasp of the radical Right. (Saul Newman, Professor of Political Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London) Fresh, brave, and excellent to think with. Nothing beats this as an original, critical and sympathetic reassessment of anarchism as a body of evolving emancipatory practices and as a body of knowledge. I cant wait to teach it. (James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University) About the Author Jimmy Casas Klausen is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. James Martel is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University.

Author: Jordan Smoller File Type: epub Psychiatry has ignored the normal. The focus on defining abnormal behavior has obscured what turns out to be a more fundamental questionhow does the biology of the brain give rise to the mind, which in turn gives rise to everything we care about thoughts, feelings, desires, and relationships? In The Other Side of Normal, Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller shows us that understanding what the mind was designed to do in the first place demystifies mental illness and builds a new foundation for defining psychiatric disordersfrom autism to depression. Smoller argues there are no bright lines between normal and abnormal. Psychiatric disorders are variations of the same brain systems that evolved to help us solve the challenges of everyday life. How do we become who we are? Smoller explains where our personalities come from, and how the temperaments we had as infants actually stay with us into adulthood. Why do we choose to date, love, and marry the people we do? Why do some of us form healthy relationships while others form unstable ones? Our relationships are shaped by the biology that drives two imperatives maternal-child bonding and child-parent attachment. Along the way, Smoller tackles an even greater questionwhat do we mean by normal?as he explores the puzzles behind the epidemics of multiple personalities and koro, the shocking phobia that ones penis is shrinking. He also looks at the controversial history of psychiatric classification and the explosive debates over how much early experiences influence our minds and to what degree genetics affect our temperaments, personalities, and emotional lives. Throughout this examination, Smoller explores the hidden sides of such questions as How are trust and love rooted in biology? How much does sexual attraction stem from biology rather than culture? And what can the scientific study of normal behavior tell us about what it means to be human?Based on the authors groundbreaking research and personal experiences treating psychological disorders, The Other Side of Normal changes the way we think about the human condition.

Author: Michael Hardt File Type: pdf First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Konstantin Mierau File Type: pdf Capturing the Picaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary picaro. It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and argues that the literary representations displaced the picaro, assigning the marginals different places in the literary texts in order to centralise the problem of urban vagrancy. The texts spanished the picaro, thus establishing the image of a culturally homogenous group and lastly, silenced the picaro, under-representing the power marginals in the city derived from their knowledge of the information flows in the city. **