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| | NeMe: Anarchism, Representation, and Culture by Jesse Cohn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Stirner has always been marginal to anarchist theory, and largely irrelevant to anarchist practice: the movements that constitute anarchism's appearance on the world stage-the First International, the Makhnovist rebellion in the Ukraine, the Spanish revolution of 1936-were workers' movements, populist and communitarian rather than egoist, scarcely compatible with Stirner's declarations that "truth... |
 | | Right now, large sections of the anarchist movement in the U.S. and elsewhere are influenced by the theoretical work of John Zerzan, whose opposition to all forms of "representation," symbolic and political, runs so deep as to include a call for the abolition of art and language itself. |
 | | He is currently completing a book on anarchist literary theory, focusing on the question of "representation" as it affects the three realms of interpretation, aesthetics, and politics, with the working title of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation. |
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