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Tag Archives: Colin Ward
Colin Ward: Anarchism as anarchy
The important question is … not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society. Colin Ward, … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Anarchism, architecture and anarchitecture (1)
If there is no art without architecture (for are not most of what we call the “fine arts” housed?) and if architecture is the arkhi-chief-master tekhne-art and the architect the master tekton-artist-artisan-builder, then the anarchist should find little affinity with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Colin Ward
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Anarchy’s dancing friends
for n.m.and a.b. for the members of the Paideia collective Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. John Steinbeck Friendship, this relation … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Bakunin, Colin Ward, Cornelius Castoriadis, Emma Goldman, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Paul Goodman, revolution
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Un desalojo, otra okupación
Colin Ward, writing of the post WWII british squatters movement, he came to identify four phases in squatting understood as a form of direct action to the housing problem in non-revolutionary situations. There is first the initiative, the action that … Continue reading
Colin Ward and Martin Buber: Society and the State
We return to Colin Ward through the work of Martin Buber, in parallel essays addressing the nature of and the relation between the State and Society. For both authors, the relation between the two – in Buber’s terms, the relation … Continue reading →