#chiara bottici

[prole-log]

★ At the beginning was movement: anarchism does not mean absence of order, but rather searching for a social order without an orderer. The main orderer of our established ways of thinking about politics is the state...

“The majority of women are already oppressed by both the government and by men. The electoral system simply increases their oppression by introducing a third ruling group: elite women. Even if the oppression remains the same, the majority of women are still taken advantage of by the minority of women...When a few women in power dominate the majority of powerless women, unequal class differentiation is brought into existence among women. If the majority of women do not want to be controlled by men, why do they want to be controlled by women?"

Why Anarcha-Feminism? A rich reflection on “anarcha-feminism” by Chiara Bottici, followed by a recorded video of the same, as well as an earlier lecture on anarchism: https://autonomies.org/2022/03/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism/?fbclid=IwAR3TraHYJvR-_5yQMEnbt2YpdSpWZuQ0lWHns4pNh11YO2wxGE98GtQXJj0

Hooded, dressed in black from head to toe, organised in small groups, a new generation of feminists is raising their fists in favour of the recognition of women's rights. Far from the model of the previous generation, that of the mothers of families who marched in silence, these anarchist activists who demonstrate with violence claim to be part of the "Black Bloc" movement. Mexico: The Feminist Revolution I ARTE Documentary:

Anarcha-Feminists and Women's Rights in Bolivia: https://www.radical-guide.com/anarcha-feminists-in-bolivia/

#anarchism #anarcha feminism #Mexico #Bolivia #freeblr #feminism #Chiara Bottici #Youtube

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on gender in native american tribes

#before colonialism btw #feminism #feminist theory #anarchafeminism #lit #chiara bottici

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[Nessuna sottomissione][Chiara Bottici]

Nessuna donna sarà mai libera se ogni altro essere vivente non lo sarà. Abbiamo bisogno di un approccio multiforme al dominio che sia in grado di tenere insieme voci diverse, egualmente finalizzate allo smantellamento dell’oppressione.

Nessuna donna sarà mai libera se ogni altro essere vivente non lo sarà. Abbiamo bisogno di un approccio multiforme al dominio che sia in grado di tenere insieme voci diverse, egualmente finalizzate allo smantellamento dell’oppressione. Solo un pensiero anarcafemminista è in grado di rispondere alle sfide del nostro tempo perché tiene insieme la specificità dell’oppressione delle donne e la…

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#2023 #8 marzo #Anarchafeminism #Chiara Bottici #Federico Zappino #femminismi #Filosofia contemporanea: storia e saggi #IWD #Laterza #Nessuna sottomissione #nonfiction #Saggi #Saggistica #USA

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 298 - 299)

#political philosophy #social justice #social activism #activism #anarchism

[the-final-straw-blog]

Anti-Militarist and Feminist Resistance in Azerbaijan

This week on the show, you’ll hear an interview with Lala an anarchafeminist in the Azerbaijani group Feminist Peace Collective about the recent war against and expulsion of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, about the Aliyev regime and patriotic elements in Azerbaijan’s reaction against anti-militarist voices, conspiracy theories and real critiques of non-profit NGO’s versus grassroots lgbtq+ and feminist organizing, and other topics. You can learn more about Lala’s group at FeministPeaceCollective.Com.

On December 19th at 8pm Caucasus time / UTC+4 (or 11am Eastern Standard or 8am Pacific Standard time) Feminist Peace Collective is hosting an online discussion with Dr. Chiara Bottici via zoom called “Anarchafeminism in troubled times” and with a focus on antifeminist and anti-queer backlash and war in the South Caucasus, central Asia, Turkey and Russia. There’s a registration link here.

Sean Swain

Sean’s segment starts at [ 01:06:24 ]

Announcements

Fundraiser for Emergency Committee for Rojava

There’s a GoFundMe fundraiser for the guests of our October 15th interview, the Emergency Committee for Rojava including some thank-you gifts. More details at https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-emergency-committee-for-rojava-2023

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Featured Track:

Down 4 Life (instrumental) by DJ Muggs

Check out this episode!

#anarchist #podcast #interview #feminist #antifa #anticapitalist

[thefree-online]

"Anarchafeminist Manifesto" by Chiara Bottici (from Laura Vicente: my personal reading).. Eng/Esp. updated

“Anarchafeminist Manifesto” by Chiara Bottici (from Laura Vicente: my personal reading).. Eng/Esp. updated

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[queerpunkqueerdesign]

Punk, Etienne de la Boetie, and Chiara Bottici: A Discussion of Queer Activism and Free Will

By Brycen Beam for Bodies, Gender and Domination at The New School (2016)

G.L.O.S.S. is a genderqueer, feminist punk band from Olympia, Washington. The band’s name is an acronym: “Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit” which is an accurate depiction of its members’ feminist morale, with a specific intersectional lens. Their latest EP release, according to Bust on-line magazine, is a “manifesto against sexism, racism, and domestic violence” in a scene that is historically and presently dominated by heterosexual cis-men.

Recently, G.L.O.S.S. denied Epitaph Records’ offer of a $50,000 record deal. Epitaph Records has signed on monumentally influential bands, including Descendants and The Cramps. This denial of corporate advancement shows G.L.O.S.S.’s commitment to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) music and the importance of authenticity in playing their music without selling out.

G.L.O.S.S., considering the offer, ultimately rejects Epitaph’s $50,000 offer. The space in which G.L.O.S.S. and their supporters carve out of society, simultaneously via music and activism, aids in lending a voice to marginalized persons in working toward a revolution, according to a recent Bust interview. Epitaph Records is considered a corporate, mainstream record label for hardcore, punk and alternative music genres, and thus may be perceived to be what Etienne de la Boetie refers to as a tyrant, a leader of a system which perpetuates oppression and marginalization (of queer/trans people in this case).

Led by transwoman Sadie Switchblade, G.L.O.S.S., as well as other DIY punk musicians who reside outside of corrupt music production, have taken a stance to create a separate world of music. The space created by G.L.O.S.S. is a safe, though emotionally charged, atmosphere of human freedom of expression. As a defense of their freedom, G.L.O.S.S. collectively decided to deny a label that would inevitably taint their regained autonomy over free will. “Since freedom is our natural state, we are not only in possession of it but have the urge to defend it” (Boetie 51). As a tangential point from mainstream politics, G.L.O.S.S. represents the divergent servant of what Etienne de la Boetie describes as one who simply does not serve the tyrant to avoid furthering lack of free will.

Trying to overthrow overarching institutional racism, sexism and anti-feminism through the “brute beasts in the pulpit to throw light on their nature and condition” (Boetie 52), that is here G.L.O.S.S., a voice of marginalized implementations of anti-corruption, cease to submit to the single Tyrant of blind political injustice, white supremacy and anti-feminist ideals.

The Tyrant, as per Boetie’s perspective, would be undeniably difficult to adhere to, for G.L.O.S.S. and their message would be stifled by the contracted requirements of the corporation. An excerpt from G.L.O.S.S.’s album Trans Day of Revenge, song entitled Give Violence a Chance:

“Fuck the peace fuck the calm / The investigation is a fucking con /

The truth is known beneath the gun / Black lives don’t matter in the eyes of the law / Dead kids mean nothing to them / Left to rot in the street / Afforded rights when convenient / To protect the elite / Anti-racist doesn’t mean non-racist / Justice is a fucking joke, a trap, a fucking farce / Your calls for peace are ignorant and basic / Self-appointed community leaders / Who put you in charge?”

The lyrics would be reviewed, speculated and edited to the standard Epitaph Records and the industry sees fit. This speculation interferes with the intention to spread unfiltered and unheard lyricisms on account of the sick realities of today’s police brutality and institutionalized racism.

Boetie’s The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Solitude refers to the idea of the “inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude” (Boetie 46). The push against Epitaph is the band’s cease to submit to the objectification of realized issues of today; the rugged edges of G.L.O.S.S. would, if not instantly, over time be dulled down to incorporate their music into the mainstream, which defeats the purpose of the activism and honest discomfort located within the crux of the band.

Chiara’s Bodies in Plural speaks to the idea of intersectionality, and how iterations of thought contain (un)conscious implications within its absence, as well as its presence. This is applicable to G.L.O.S.S. and the acknowledged privilege held by the band members; though there is an absence of people of color in the band, the lyrics and purpose of the band is critically dependent on intersectional activism, taking class, race, sexuality and gender into consideration.

The band has an advantage of white privilege, but uses that platform as a means through which people of color and LGBTQ community members can ultimately voice their experiences and emotions. Intersectionality is crucial because G.L.O.S.S. uses the broad audience they reach as a means to express anti-racism, such as “Give Violence a Chance” available via Bandcamp, but also in representing marginalized voices and persons, the audience is more inclined to question their environment and witnessed interactions, much like Bottici expressed in the first page in Bodies in Plural.

(Re)presentations that are also images themselves are brought to question in Bottici’s piece on page 2; this idea of (re)presentation, a reorientation of present, speaks to the lengths of G.L.O.S.S.’s impact on communities of color and queerness. Though the band is an image of what DIY punk is presently, predominantly white, once performed and discussed, the band takes challenges a reiteration of political queerness, identity structure and the common understanding of what marginalization means.

Without the overlap of class, race, gender and sexuality, G.L.O.S.S. would be unable to write the music they produce, or reach the audiences they have touched. Please consider “that there is something specific about the oppression of women [and other marginalized groups] and that in order to fight it you have to fight all other forms of oppression” (Bottici 6). All sides must be heard in order for activism, intersectionality and queerness to be productive in overriding oppression and regaining free will in a world that is turning blind to reality. It means defending a position that is simultaneously feminist and anarchist.

#let's think! #productive punk thought #punk thought #productivity #society #theorization of punk decisions

[beneathsemiotic]

In Spinoza's ontology of the unique substance, there is no space for compromises. And this is the reason why he has been said to be at the origins of critical theory. No benevolent God or more or less postulated immortality of the soul will ever guarantee the congruence between virtue and happiness. The whole game is here and now. No deferral is possible. There is no noumenal world that can free us from the strictures of the world of phenomena, but only the possibility of critique within the immanence of the unique substance. We are always "within" and "against." We are always within and against the discipline of imagination, within and against power, within and against capitalism.

Chiara Bottici, Another Enlightenment – Spinoza on Myth and Imagination, 2012.

[listentotheland]

Manifestos have been historically used by feminist activists, artists and writers to boldly state their ideas and demands. Usually brief and direct in tone, they point to circumstances deemed unacceptable and in need of change, and propose pathways to move forward in order to overcome the status quo. From Olympe de Gouges in revolutionary France to the Redstockings in the streets of New York City and the Zapatistas in the remote mountains of the Mexican southeast, women have employed manifestos as a means to be heard and circulate their ideas, but also as a way to build coalitions with others who might recognize themselves in their struggles. As part of the year-long seminar cycle Freedom of Speech: Curriculum for Studies into Darkness, this event proposes speech as a collective act of re-appropriation. It calls for a network of resistance and transformation through the enactment of a series of documents written by women in different corners of the world during different moments in time, resonant with the explosive reality we experience now. Feminist Manifestos is presented as a two-part public program that will activate written statements challenging cultural production, food distribution, knowledge creation, land ownership and other systems of oppression that the patriarchy, still today, refuses to acknowledge. Starting at 10am on Monday morning, a diverse group of self-identified women from across The New School—students, alumni, administrative and maintenance staff, union members, and faculty—will be reading and performing a selection of historical and contemporary manifestos at various locations within the university's architecture. Those specific spaces have been selected because they relate to the content of the texts, and play a significant role in the performers´ daily lives. Through the acts of public speaking and collective listening, quotidian spaces become the context for socio-political struggles while also pointing out at the emancipatory potential of our everyday activities and choices. The second part of the event serves as a gathering to discuss the conditions from which the manifestos emerged and the ways in which they have catalyzed new forms of cooperation and collective action. Along with feminist scholars and visual artists, we will explore ideas—gleaned from the documents—such as the perpetuation of capitalism based on the unpaid reproductive labor women perform, or the unexpected advantages of anonymity within the arts. Additionally, women who enacted the manifestos earlier in the day will be sharing their experiences of performing Free Speech, embodying the knowledge, perspectives and emotions embedded in those statements. Participants Becca Albee, visual artist and musician Chiara Bottici, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research Silvia Federici, philosopher, scholar, writer and activist from the radical autonomist Marxist tradition A.L. Steiner, visual artist, teacher, collaborator and co-founder of Ridykeulous and Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) Moderator Gabriela López Dena, Graduate Student Fellow for Art and Social Justice

#IFTTT #Vimeo #art 360 #listening to the land

[krigsmaskinen]

Reading Adorno’s Fascist Propaganda Essay in the Age of Trump

Writing shortly after the end of World War Two, just as the enormity of what had transpired begun to set in, Theodor Adorno turned to the writings of Freud to help account for the convulsive power of the fascist spell. Drawing on Freud’s studies in the psychology of masses, he was able to render an account of the psychological conditions for the rise of a charismatic leader, as well as the arsenal of gestures used by the leader to bewitch and to mobilize.

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.

Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something to offer to social and political philosophy today? How can Adorno’s analysis of Fascism in the 1930s and 1940s inform our analyses of contemporary right-wing movements? These are the questions discussed by this roundtable, featuring J. M. Bernstein, Chiara Bottici, Vladimir Safatle, and Jamieson Webster.

#Adorno #Fascism #kritik #psykoanalys

[speculativepolitics]

EDITORIAL

SPECULATIVE POLITICS (working title) attempts to link speculative/critical design with political fiction. The research focus on realities which are based on fictions, or in other words, on artificial constructions which become reel through images. I am interested in the paradox of contemporary visual culture, which constitutes its reality on the basis of real and virtual images on the one hand, and, with the victory of modern sciences, has no right to imagine/dream alternatives one the other hand. Considering Design as a "result and construction of social and political ideas and values"(1), my research explores the performativity of design and its capacity to create realities through the concept of the "imaginal". The theory of the "imaginal" as conceptual tool, explored by Chiara Bottici (2), emphasizes a possibility beyond the theories of imagination and imaginary. The imaginal comes before the distinction between reality and fiction because it only means "made of images" and stands for a field of possibilities that goes from the absolute freedom of an individual faculty to imagine to a potentially vast influence of imaginaries produced by social contexts. 

By means of Design Fiction questioning our relationships to built and natural environments, SPECULATIVE POLITICS attempts to (re)activate political imagination by producing new images and/or by reorienting existing ones. Design does not only document existing conditions, but also put things together in new ways, adding value through form, image, etc. This online platform is both, research method and conversation piece, aiming to materialize, discuss and put together thoughts. Donna Haraway's concept of "worlding"(3) describes the process of actively re-imagining a non-anthropocentric world. 

The leading statement/research question of this blog is a concrete and simple one: When our reality is a "post-produced video installation and images can be changed"(4), which images do we want to design (and to become real) in a complex contemporary world?

The platform is organized in two poles/complementary parts, OBJECTS and THINGS.

SPECULATIVE POLITICS is an ongoing research project initialized by Simone Fehlinger.

(1) Alexandra Midal: Design: Introduction à l’histoire d’une discipline. Pocket, 2009. (2) Chiara Bottici: Imaginal Politics. Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary. Columbia University Press, 2014. (3) Donna Haraway: SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far. Pilgrim Award Acceptance Talk, July 2011. (4) Hito Steyerl: The Photographic Universe. Photography and Political Agency? Conference at the New School, 2013.

[allbestnet]

Military Reading List

1776: McCullough, David G.

A Companion to American Military History: Bradford, James C.

A History of Air Warfare: Olsen, John Andreas

A History of Modern Iran: Abrahamian, Ervand

A Savage War of Peace: Horne, Alistair.

Accidental Guerrilla: Kilcullen, David.

America the Last Best Hope: Bennett, William J.

American Soldiers: Kindsvatter, Peter S.

An Army at Dawn: Atkinson, Rick.

Beating Goliath: Record, Jeffrey.

Building the Trident Network: Mort, Maggie.

Caine Mutiny Court-martial: Wouk, Herman.-Avery, James-Hunter-Gualt, Chuma.-Lithgow, Ian.-Lowell, Scott.-Rivkin,

Cataclysm: Wolk, Herman S.

Clausewitz and Modern Strategy: Handel, Michael I.

Closing With the Enemy: Doubler, Michael D.

Command Culture: Muth, Jörg

Contemporary Military Innovation: Bjerga, Kjell Inge.-Adamsky, Dima.

Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Lennon, Alexander T.

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Galula, David.-Nagl, John A.

Credibility: Kouzes, James M.-Posner, Barry Z.

Critical Thinking: Paul, Richard.-Elder, Linda

Cyber Warfare: Andress, Jason.-Winterfeld, Steve.-Rogers, Russ.

Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar: Libicki, Martin C.

Discourses on Livy: Machiavelli, Niccolò.-Bondanella, Julia Conaway.-Bondanella, Peter E.

Eisenhower: Wukovits, John F.

Eisenhower on Leadership: Axelrod, Alan

Elephant and the Dragon: Meredith, Robyn.

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front: Bloom, Harold.

Federalist Papers: Hamilton, Alexander-Madison, James-Jay, John-Goldman, Lawrence

Forgotten Continent: Reid, Michael.

From Babel to Dragomans: Lewis, Bernard.

George C. Marshall: Brower, Charles F.

Guardians of the Revolution: Takeyh, Ray.

History of Air Warfare: Olsen, John Andreas.

History of the Peloponnesian War: Thucydides.

Horse Soldiers: Stanton, Doug.

How: Seidman, Dov.

How Wars End: Reiter, Dan

Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders: National Research Council (U.S.).

Innovator's Dilemma: Christensen, Clayton M.

Inside Al Qaeda: Gunaratna, Rohan

John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship: Connelly, Donald B.

John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power: Olsen, John Andreas

Joseph Heller's Catch-22: Bloom, Harold.

Just and Unjust Warriors: Rodin, David.-Shue, Henry.

Knowing the Enemy: Habeck, Mary R.

Landscape of History: Gaddis, John Lewis.

Last Stand of Fox Company: Drury, Bob.-Clavin, Thomas.

Leadership: Ulmer, Walter F.-McCaffrey, Barry R.-Kolenda, Christopher D.

Leadership and the New Science: Wheatley, Margaret J.

Leading at the Edge: Perkins, Dennis N. T.-Murphy, Jillian B.-Holtman, Margaret P.

Lean Thinking: Womack, James P.-Jones, Daniel T.

Learning Large Lessons: Johnson, David E.

LeMay: Kozak, Warren

Lincoln and His Admirals: Symonds, Craig L.

Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: McFarland, Keith D.-Roll, David L.

Maneuver Warfare Handbook: Lind, William S.

Masters of the Air: Miller, Donald L.

Masters of War: Handel, Michael I.

Military Power: Biddle, Stephen D.

Modern War and the Utility of Force: Duyvesteyn, Isabelle-Angstrom, Jan.

On Becoming a Leader: Bennis, Warren G.

On Nuclear Terrorism: Levi, Michael.

On War: Clausewitz, Carl von.

Once an Eagle: Myrer, Anton.

Overcoming Post-deployment Syndrome: Cifu, David X.-Blake, Cory.

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Lencioni, Patrick

Patton: Axelrod, Alan.-Clark, Wesley K.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Grant, Ulysses S.

Power Mentoring: Ensher, Ellen A.-Murphy, Susan E.

Presidential Courage: Beschloss, Michael R.

Red Badge of Courage: Crane, Stephen.

Rivals: Emmott, Bill.

Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy: Cutler, Thomas J.

Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: Bratton, Patrick.-Till, Geoffrey.

Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: Cohen, William A.

Six Frigates: Toll, Ian W.

Starship Troopers: Heinlein, Robert A.

Success Built to Last: Porras, Jerry I.-Emery, Stewart-Thompson, Mark

Team of Rivals: Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

Testing American Sea Power: Felker, Craig C.

The AEF Way of War: Grotelueschen, Mark E.

The Armed Forces Officer: 

The Art of War: Sunzi-Calthrop, Everard Ferguson-Wu, Qi-Butler-Bowdon, Tom

The Face of Battle: Keegan, John

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Lencioni, Patrick

The Forgotten Soldier: Sajer, Guy.

The Global Achievement Gap: Wagner, Tony.

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire: Luttwak, Edward.

The Guns of August: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.

The Little Book of Economics: Ip, Greg

The Metal Life Car: Buker, George E.

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations: Bottici, Chiara.-Challand, Benoît

The Naval Air War in Korea: Hallion, Richard P.

The Next Level: Eblin, Scott

The Origins of War: Guilaine, Jean.-Zammit, Jean.

The Peloponnesian War: Lazenby, J. F.

The Red Badge of Courage: Crane, Stephen-Sorrentino, Paul.

The Thousand-mile War: Garfield, Brian

The Warrior Ethos: Coker, Christopher.

Thinking About America's Defense: Kent, Glenn A.-Ochmanek, David A.-Spirtas, Michael.-Pirnie, Bruce

Transformation Under Fire: Macgregor, Douglas A.

Understanding Arabs: Nydell, Margaret K.

United States Coast Guard in World War II: Ostrom, Thomas P.

Victory on the Potomac: Locher, James R.

War to End All Wars: Coffman, Edward M.

What Went Wrong?: Lewis, Bernard.

Why Air Forces Fail: Higham, Robin D. S.-Harris, Stephen John.

Winged Defense: Mitchell, William

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 80 - 86)

#philosophy #political philosophy #feminsim #feminist theory #anarchism #anti capitalism #patriarchy

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 62)

#philosophy #political philosophy #ecology #mutual aid #peter kropotkin #anarchism

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 52)

#political philosophy #socioeconomics #africa #anarchism

[blackponderer]

"Anarchafeminism" by Chiara Bottici (p. 52)

#philosophy #political philosophy #anarchism #history