This is my proposed talk for Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
The Promise and Peril of the "Political"
The term "politics" has long troubled anarchism. As an antistatist political philosophy, anarchism has allowed the definition of political to range from economic structures to what might be loosely called "the revolution of every day life", creating a myriad of contradictory positions all falling under the same banner. To a degree- perhaps because of this- the revolutionary subject of anarchism has remained both obscured and contested. This talk aims to examine the problems and possibility of existential politics through Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Murray Bookchin. By examining the recent Vermont anti-GMO Town-to-Town campaign, this talk hopes to illuminate a conjunction between anarchism and existential politics as a way to focus the revolutionary subject of anarchism.
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