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This paper explores Max Stirner's political philosophy and its importance for contemporary theory. While our time is characterized by the breaking down and dislocation of essential and universal identities, little has been written on the philosophical roots of this phenomenon. I show the ways in which Stirner's epistemological break with Enlightenment humanism, explicit in his critique of Feuerbach, lays the theoretical groundwork for this politics of difference. Indeed it anticipates many aspects of poststructuralism thought. I argue here that Stirner's critique of humanism, essentialist identity, rationality, and moral absolutism unmasks the subtle connections between identity, desire and politics. It also goes beyond the political imaginary of the Enlightenment and, in doing so, allows us to deconstruct accepted political and social identities and radically transform the notion of the political subject. However, Stirner's thinking is not a simplistic transgression of humanist categories. Rather he shows their discursive limitations and calls for a rethinking of these concepts in ways that are less abstract and oppressive.Contemporary Political Theory (2002) 1, 221238. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300038
If game theory was objective, rational, abstract; gamer theory is subjective, intuitive, particular. If game theory starts with the self-contained agent, like a prisoner in a cell, looking out at the world; gamer theory wonders how the agency of the gamer comes into being as something distinct in the first place. The rise of the computer game as an emergent cultural form calls for an approach to cultural theory that might emerge organically out of the experience of game play. In an era in which many aspects of everyday life seem increasingly game-like, one might well ask what relation computer games have to this agon of the everyday. Perhaps computer games present the ethos of the digital world in its pure form, as a place where the “playing field” really is level, where the rules really seem to be fair. Perhaps the computer game is the almost-utopian double to a world made over as a gamespace.
This book explores the relevance of anarchism for contemporary politics. The author contends that this long neglected and almost heretical political philosophy is becoming increasingly central to radical struggles and movements today, especially in the wake of the collapse of the Marxist revolutionary projects and with the terminal decline of both social democracy and political liberalism. Here the author explores new directions for anti-authoritarian thought. Seeing anarchism as a politics of anti-politics, the author uses this paradox to formulate alternative ways of thinking about the place of the political, and the relationship between politics and ethics. Working at the intersections between anarchism and poststructuralism, the author frames a new approach to radical politics: 'postanarchism' – or anarchism without essential foundations. This original theoretical perspective – which draws upon classical anarchist thought, deconstruction, post-Marxism and psychoanalytic theory - allows for a renewed engagement with contemporary debates about future directions in radical politics. Postanarchism offers a distinct way of theorising a politics of emancipation, confronting central questions of the state domination, agency, ethics, democracy, social movements and the struggles taking place today on the terrain of globalisation.
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