post-structuralism

Alyson Escalante's critiques of the trans community's reliance on gender essentialism and a proposal…

In this 2007 essay, Robert Kurz examines the question of theory and practice from the perspective of…

This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges…

DD Johnston's review of Anarchism and Sexuality, a multi-authored book edited by Jamie Heckert and Richard Cleminson (Abingdon & New York:…

In Part One of this 1993 essay, Robert Kurz criticizes the largely unexamined assumptions…

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal performed an experiment after becoming frustrated…

Physicist Alan Sokal reveals the motivations behind his infamous 'Sokal hoax' article - an…

The philosopher-psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek’s take on the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, including his trademark references to popular…

This essay critiques classical anarchism using Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ressentiment’ and Michel Foucault’s ideas on power. While Newman caricatures 'classical anarchism' in his haste to define his own ‘post-anarchism’, and tends to favour individual identity over collective revolutionary action, he does make important points about the need for anarchism to be more than just a reaction to the state, and the fact that…

This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel…

In this short essay Deleuze looks to move beyond Michel Foucault’s historical understanding of ‘disciplinary societies’, where power is exercised within discrete institutions, towards the concept of 'societies of control'. In many ways it parallels the ideas of the Italian radical left around the concept of the ‘social factory’, providing an intersection between post-structuralist philosophy and autonomist Marxism.