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- Title
'Nothing Is Permitted Anymore': Postanarchism, Gnosticism, and The End of Production.
- Authors
Schill, Brian James
- Abstract
Despite its emergence as a serious field of academic study, postanarchism harbours a number of ontological, epistemological, and even theological hang-ups - at least if CrimethInc., primitivism, and cyberpunk are any indication. Using a pair of postanarchism's more celebrated references - Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault - against it, then, this essay explores how many postanarchists' refusal of copyright and intellectual property in the digital age rather than helping free and/or empower postmodern subjects instead obscures their subjectivity, and perhaps their very humanity. In so doing, postanarchism too often panders to an elitist and naïve contemporary version of Gnosticism, which has itself re-emerged alongside the networked economy in the form of scientology, Kabbalah, and other 'secret', anti-world fundamentalisms in the West.
- Subjects
ANARCHISM; GNOSTICISM; COPYRIGHT; INTELLECTUAL property
- Publication
Anarchist Studies, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0967-3393
- Publication type
Essay