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Prefigurative Politics Vs. Party-Building in the Post-Soviet
PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS VS. PARTY BUILDING IN THE POST- SOVIET CONTEXT: IDEOLOGY AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION IN LEFT-RADICAL GROUPS IN UKRAINE. VOLODYMYR ISHCHENKO Center for Social and Labor Research, Kiev Abstract I wrote this paper 10 years ago based on my MA thesis. Many things have changed since that time. The left groups mentioned in the article do not exist anymore. Some of their activists are still active politically but many are not part of radical left politics any more. In addition, now I am more skeptical of the postmodern theories of ideology I tried to use in the paper. If I were writing a similar analysis now, I would try to develop a more materialist and a more complex approach to ideologies and their effects on practical politics. However, the paper seems to be pointing to a much wider question than merely the problems of two small Kiev-based radical left groups. The radical left movement in Ukraine is slightly larger now, involving hundreds, not dozens, of activists, but it still lacks any strong organization and remains completely marginal politically. But it is not just a matter of the Ukrainian left. The recent waves of popular struggles in Europe and in Arab countries persuasively showed how anarchist suspicion of disciplined organizations and strategy politically disarms the movements. If lacking strong political organizations even massive mobilizations are at best able only to overthrow the old elite, while allowing the seizing of power by traditional "opposition" parties, which in reality block any prospects for fundamental political and social change. SYRIZA in Greece and Podemos in Spain may push progressive movements into an understanding of the need for political representation. -
Human-Computer Insurrection
Human-Computer Insurrection Notes on an Anarchist HCI Os Keyes∗ Josephine Hoy∗ Margaret Drouhard∗ University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA Seattle, WA, USA Seattle, WA, USA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. ACM, New York, NY, The HCIcommunity has worked to expand and improve our USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300569 consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased 1 INTRODUCTION engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated "You are ultimately—consciously or uncon- politic, which we argue re-inscribes and amplifies systemic sciously—salesmen for a delusive ballet in oppression. In this paper, we set out an explicit political vi- the ideas of democracy, equal opportunity sion of an HCI grounded in emancipatory autonomy—an an- and free enterprise among people who haven’t archist HCI, aimed at dismantling all oppressive systems by the possibility of profiting from these." [74] mandating suspicion of and a reckoning with imbalanced The last few decades have seen HCI take a turn to exam- distributions of power. We outline some of the principles ine the societal implications of our work: who is included and accountability mechanisms that constitute an anarchist [10, 68, 71, 79], what values it promotes or embodies [56, 57, HCI. We offer a potential framework for radically reorient- 129], and how we respond (or do not) to social shifts [93]. ing the field towards creating prefigurative counterpower—systems While this is politically-motivated work, HCI has tended to and spaces that exemplify the world we wish to see, as we avoid making our politics explicit [15, 89]. -
Black Flag White Masks: Anti-Racism and Anarchist Historiography
Black Flag White Masks: Anti-Racism and Anarchist Historiography Süreyyya Evren1 Abstract Dominant histories of anarchism rely on a historical framework that ill fits anarchism. Mainstream anarchist historiography is not only blind to non-Western elements of historical anarchism, it also misses the very nature of fin de siècle world radicalism and the contexts in which activists and movements flourished. Instead of being interested in the network of (anarchist) radicalism (worldwide), political historiography has built a linear narrative which begins from a particular geographical and cultural framework, driven by the great ideas of a few father figures and marked by decisive moments that subsequently frame the historical compart- mentalization of the past. Today, colonialism/anti-colonialism and imperialism/anti-imperialism both hold a secondary place in contemporary anarchist studies. This is strange considering the importance of these issues in world political history. And the neglect allows us to speculate on the ways in which the priorities might change if Eurocentric anarchist histories were challenged. This piece aims to discuss Eurocentrism imposed upon the anarchist past in the form of histories of anarchism. What would be the consequences of one such attempt, and how can we reimagine the anarchist past after such a critique? Introduction Black Flag White Masks refers to the famous Frantz Fanon book, Black Skin White Masks, a classic in anti-colonial studies, and it also refers to hidden racial issues in the history of the black flag (i.e., anarchism). Could there be hidden ethnic hierarchies in the main logic of anarchism's histories? The huge difference between the anarchist past and the histories of anarchism creates the gap here. -
Lois Green Carr
Lois Green Carr Born at Holyoke, Massachusetts, March 7, 1922 Education: Harvard University, Ph.D., 1968 (History). Radcliffe College, A.M., 1944. Swarthmore College, A.B., 1943. High Honors in History. Professional Experience: 1967-present. Historian, Historic St. Mary's City, State of Maryland. 1982-present. Adjunct Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park. 1988-present. Senior Adjunct Scholar, Maryland State Archives. 1989-present. Senior Historian, Maryland Historical Trust. 1971. Visiting Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland. 1956-1964. Junior Archivist, Maryland Hall of Records Commission, Annapolis, MD; Assistant Editor, Maryland Manual, 1956-1960; Editor, Maryland Guide, 1956-1964. 1952-1956. Freelance editing. 1951-1952. Editorial Assistant, College Department, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1950-1951. Freelance editing, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1948. Instructor in English, Juilliard School of Music. 1946-1947. Instructor in History, Cambridge Junior College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1944. Assistant, History Department, Harvard University. Memberships: American Historical Association (Research Division, 1980-1982). Organization of American Historians (Committee on Historic Sites, 1971-1973; Nominating Committee, 1985-1986). Economic History Association (Nominating Committee, 1982-1983; Committee on Research in Economic History, 1988-1990; President Elect, 1989-1990; President, 1990- 1991; Trustee, 1991-1994). Social Science History Association Southern Historical Association (Program Committee, 1991-1992) Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (Council, 1980-1982) Maryland Historical Society (Editorial Board, Maryland Historical Magazine, 1988--; Publications Committee, 1990--). Economic History Society Advisory Board, McNeil (formerly Philadelphia) Center for Early American Studies, 1981--. Historic Annapolis, Inc. Maryland Humanities Council, 1998--. Charles Carroll House of Annapolis, Inc., Board of Trustees, 1994-2003. -
Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: a Round Table
Lincoln Studies at the Bicentennial: A Round Table Lincoln Theme 2.0 Matthew Pinsker Early during the 1989 spring semester at Harvard University, members of Professor Da- vid Herbert Donald’s graduate seminar on Abraham Lincoln received diskettes that of- fered a glimpse of their future as historians. The 3.5 inch floppy disks with neatly typed labels held about a dozen word-processing files representing the whole of Don E. Feh- renbacher’s Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait through His Speeches and Writings (1964). Donald had asked his secretary, Laura Nakatsuka, to enter this well-known col- lection of Lincoln writings into a computer and make copies for his students. He also showed off a database containing thousands of digital note cards that he and his research assistants had developed in preparation for his forthcoming biography of Lincoln.1 There were certainly bigger revolutions that year. The Berlin Wall fell. A motley coalition of Afghan tribes, international jihadists, and Central Intelligence Agency (cia) operatives drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Virginia voters chose the nation’s first elected black governor, and within a few more months, the Harvard Law Review selected a popular student named Barack Obama as its first African American president. Yet Donald’s ven- ture into digital history marked a notable shift. The nearly seventy-year-old Mississippi native was about to become the first major Lincoln biographer to add full-text searching and database management to his research arsenal. More than fifty years earlier, the revisionist historian James G. Randall had posed a question that helps explain why one of his favorite graduate students would later show such a surprising interest in digital technology as an aging Harvard professor. -
Books Added to Benner Library from Estate of Dr. William Foote
Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature / by L.D. Reynolds and N.G. 1 001.2 R335s, 1991 Wilson. 2 001.2 Se15e Emerson on the scholar / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. 3 001.3 R921f Future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo. 4 001.30711 G163a Academic instincts / Marjorie Garber. Book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and 5 002 B644r Steven Clay. 6 002 OL5s Smithsonian book of books / Michael Olmert. 7 002 T361g Great books and book collectors / Alan G. Thomas. 8 002.075 B29g Gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books / Nicholas A. Basbanes. 9 002.09 B29p Patience & fortitude : a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Books of the brave : being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the 10 002.098 L552b sixteenth-century New World / Irving A. Leonard ; with a new introduction by Rolena Adorno. 11 020.973 R824f Foundations of library and information science / Richard E. Rubin. 12 021.009 J631h, 1976 History of libraries in the Western World / by Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris. 13 025.2832 B175d Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker. London booksellers and American customers : transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library 14 027.2 R196L Society, 1748-1811 / James Raven. -
HI 2108 Reading List
For students of HI 2106 – Themes in modern American history and HI 2018 – American History: A survey READING LISTS General Reading: 1607-1991 Single or two-volume overviews of American history are big business in the American academic world. They are generally reliable, careful and bland. An exception is Bernard Bailyn et al, The Great Republic: a history of the American people which brings together thoughtful and provocative essays from some of America’s top historians, for example David Herbert Donald and Gordon Wood. This two-volume set is recommended for purchase (and it will shortly be available in the library). Other useful works are George Tindall, America: a Narrative History, Eric Foner, Give me Liberty and P.S. Boyer et al, The Enduring Vision all of which are comprehensive, accessible up to date and contain very valuable bibliographies. Among the more acceptable shorter alternatives are M.A. Jones, The Limits of Liberty and Carl Degler, Out of our Past. Hugh Brogan, The Penguin history of the United States is entertaining and mildly idiosyncratic. A recent highly provocative single- volume interpretative essay on American history which places war at the centre of the nation’s development is Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 All of the above are available in paperback and one should be purchased. Anthologies of major articles or extracts from important books are also a big commercial enterprise in U.S. publishing. By far the most useful and up-to-date is the series Major problems in American History published by D.C. -
Sober Second Thought? Korematsu Reconsidered
Arkansas Law Review Volume 74 Number 2 Article 2 June 2021 Sober Second Thought? Korematsu Reconsidered Mark R. Killenbeck University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Constitutional Law Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law and Society Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Mark R. Killenbeck, Sober Second Thought? Korematsu Reconsidered, 74 Ark. L. Rev. 151 (2021). Available at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol74/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Law Review by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SOBER SECOND THOUGHT? KOREMATSU RECONSIDERED Mark R. Killenbeck* How to best describe and treat Korematsu v. United States?1 A self-inflicted wound?2 It is certainly an exemplar of a case that in key respects tracks Justice Stephen Breyer’s caution about decisions that have “harm[ed] not just the Court, but the Nation.”3 Part of an “Anticanon,” resting on “little more than naked racism and associated hokum” and “embod[ying] a set of propositions that all legitimate constitutional decisions must be prepared to refute”?4 Perhaps. Or is it simply an opinion and result that “has long stood out as a stain that is almost universally recognized as a shameful mistake”5? The aspersions are varied, voiced by a wide range of critics. The Supreme Court has now joined the chorus. -
A NEW BIRTH of FREEDOM: STUDYING the LIFE of Lincolnabraham Lincoln at 200: a Bicentennial Survey
Civil War Book Review Spring 2009 Article 3 A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLNAbraham Lincoln at 200: A Bicentennial Survey Frank J. Williams Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr Recommended Citation Williams, Frank J. (2009) "A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLNAbraham Lincoln at 200: A Bicentennial Survey," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 11 : Iss. 2 . Available at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol11/iss2/3 Williams: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLNAbraham Linco Feature Essay Spring 2009 Williams, Frank J. A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: STUDYING THE LIFE OF LINCOLNAbraham Lincoln at 200: A Bicentennial Survey. No president has such a hold on our minds as Abraham Lincoln. He lived at the dawn of photography, and his pine cone face made a haunting picture. He was the best writer in all American politics, and his words are even more powerful than his images. His greatest trial, the Civil War, was the nation’s greatest trial, and the race problem that caused it is still with us today. His death by murder gave his life a poignant and violent climax, and allows us to play the always-fascinating game of “what if?" Abraham Lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by Theodore Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt. He freed the slaves and saved the Union, and because he saved the Union he was able to free the slaves. Beyond this, however, our extraordinary interest in him, and esteem for him, has to do with what he said and how he said it. -
DIY Politics and World-Making: Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Alternative Solutions
DIY Politics and World-making: Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Alternative Solutions Benjamin Shepard Many are drawn to an anti-authoritarian organizing ethos after witnessing the hyper- controls of large organizations up close. After watching Nicaraguan Revolution of 1978-9, anthropologist Luis Fernandez (2012) concluded that the revolution had replaced one oppressive structure with another. So he turned to anarchism. "The classical anarchist thought began to help me explain that if you are not careful with certain human organizations, they tend to reproduce hierarchical relationships that end up reproducing these tendencies for human control," (Fernandez, 2012). Anarchist, autonomist and grass roots organizations (AGROs) have fashioned countless approaches to community organization. Some involve anti-authoritarian impulses toward freedom extending into approaches to public health, urban development and social services. Others are born of a Do-It-Yourself spirit which says build what you can with what you have. Through such activities, social capital expands supporting alternate models of mutual aid. This paper considers this search for new models of organization and community development. Do-It-Yourself to Create Counterpower “The idea of just going out and doing it, or as it is popularly expressed in the underground, the do-it-yourself ethic..." notes Stephen Duncombe (1997).”Doing it yourself is at once a critique of the dominant mode of passive consumer culture and something far more important: the active creation of an alternative culture. DiY is not just complaining about what is, but actually doing something different.” Throughout the last four decades, anti- authoritarian organizers, anarchists, and queers have found their way into countless social and cultural movements with the spirit Duncombe describes. -
Politics2021
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1941 (With Notation of Subsequent National Defense and Other Important Activities)
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT FEDERAL COMMUNiCATIONS COMMISSION FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1941 (With Notation of Subsequent National Defense and Other Important Activities) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON I 1941 For Hale by the Superintcndet:lt of Documents, Washington, D. C. ~ • ~ •••• Price 10 cent. COMMISSIONERS MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION [As of December 15, 1941] CHAInMAN JAMES LAWRENCE FLY PAUL A. 'WALKER GEOROE H-ENnY PAYNE NORMAN S. CASE 'RAY C. 'VAKEFIELD T. A. M. CRAVEN **CLIFFORD J. DURR 19~ij.OOk office :March 22, 1941; succeeded Thad H. Brown, whose term expired June ::10. "Took office November 1, 1941; succeeded Frederick I. 'I'hompson, whose term expired June 30, 1941. II LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL FEDERAL C01\-Il\IUNICATIO~S COMMISSION, WasMngton, D.O., Decembe>' 15, 1941. To the 00ngre88 of the United States: The Seventh Annual Report of the Federal Communications Com mission, submitted herewith, is brought up to date in major develop ments so that the Congress may bc more cnrrently informed about the Commission's national defense work and events in radio and wire regulation which have occurred since the fiscal year ended June 30 last. The war-time emergency and new considerations in the field of dec tricaI communications impose increasing and exaeting burdens on the Commission. The showing made has, in large measure, been possible by employee devotion to duty beyond that which might rensonably be expected, even in the face of unusual conditions. Respectful!y, JAMES LAWRENCE FLY, Ohairman. TJJ [ Page IV in the original document is intentionally blank ] TABLE OF CONTENTS INDEX Chapter Page I.