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Book SynopsisIn this issue, Sureyya Evren's editorial examines the causes and consequences of the Gezi resitance in Istanbul in June 2013. Identifying the two-week occupation of Taksim Square and Gezi Park as the formulation of an temporary autonomous zone (TAZ), Evren discusses the police violence, state conservatism and threats to public space that led to this anarchist moment. Federico Campagna offers a poetic anarchist reading of the works of poet Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa lived through heteronyms, and Campagna explores how these different personalities offered Pessoa the potential to finally achieve 'free will'. Roy Krovel's article takes a theoretical approach in analysing how left libertarians and anarchists might develop a deeper understanding of global warming. Emphasising the urgency of locating such an understanding, Krovel argues that we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship to nature. Also in this issue, John Asimakopoulos identifies the failure to bridge the gap between utopian economic models of society and reality. Via the suggestions that corporations have boards of directors filled by lottery from the demos and the workers for the company, Asimakopoulos suggests that institutions of production need to be modified in order to achieve a society that resembles a distant utopia. Duane Rousselle and Saul Newman debate postanarchism, exploring the ethics of the movement and the fact that it is not located in a specific temporal period.
Table of ContentsContents Guest editorial: Gezi resistance in Istanbul: Something in between Tahrir, Occupy and a late Turkish 1968 Sureyyya Evren Beyond the Anarch - Stirner, Pessoa, Junger Federico Campagna Revisiting social and deep ecology in the light of global warming Roy Krovel Bridging Utopia and Pragmatism to Achieve Direct Economic Democracy John Asimakopoulos Postanarchism and its Critics: A Conversation with Saul Newman Duane Rousselle Review Article A soundtrack to revolution? Chris Ealham Reviews Constance Bantman, The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914: Exile and transnationalism in the first globalization Reviewed by Davide Turcato Martin Baxmeyer, Das ewige Spanien der Anarchie. Die anarchistische Literatur des Burgerkriegs (1936-1939) und ihr Spanienbild Reviewed by Dieter Nelles Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Manifesto Reviewed by Jim Donaghey Gary Chartier, Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society Reviewed by Eric Roark Hannah Dobbz, Nine-Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States Reviewed by E.T.C. Dee Kevin Eady, Uncontrollable Reviewed by Daniel Evans Vittorio Frigerio (ed.), Nouvelles anarchistes: la creation litteraire dans la presse militante, 1890-1946 Reviewed by Andrew H. Lee Antoni A. Kaminski, Michail Bakunin Zycie I mysl Reviewed by Rafal Chwedoruk & Mateusz Batelt Carlo Pisacane's La Rivoluzione. Revolution. An Alternative Answer to the Italian Question Reviewed by Pietro Di Paola Daniel Poyner (ed.), Autonomy: The Cover Designs of Anarchy, 1961-1970 Reviewed by David Goodway Andy Price, Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time Reviewed by Thomas Martin Film: Bastards of Utopia, directed by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez Reviewed by Petar Jandric Duane Rousselle, After Post-Anarchism Reviewed by Uri Gordon Jeff Shantz, Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red/Green Vision Reviewed by Andy Price Davide Turcato, Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta's Experiments with Revolution, 1889-1900 Reviewed by Andrew Hoyt
