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An Interview with Chaia Heller The Institute for Anarchist Studies Chaia Heller is one of the most analogous to but directly ho exciting feminist and Utopian Ecology, Desire mologous to the dialectic be intellectuals currently writing tween need and desire. Fall 1999 in English. In her first major and Vol. 3 No. 2 work, Ecology of Everyday I think that desire is need be Life: Rethinking the Desire for coming increasingly free. It is Nature, Chaia Heller extends Revolution: the subject becoming increas a feminist critique of roman ingly free from the realm of tic love to an exploration of An Interview necessity, as necessity becomes alienated perceptions of na increasingly subjective. For ex ture. Heller challenges us to ample, the need for food be rethink the epistemological with comes the conscious, subjective basis of our desire for a better desire for a kind of food. This world with one of the most Chaia Heller is a dialectic that marks both challenging and considered by Rebecca DeWitt history and natural history. And examinations of the dialectic so I think that there is a very of desire and need since Murray Bookchin's 1967 compelling relationship between the dialectic of essay of the same name. Heller brings the subject freedom and necessity and desire and need, which into the forefront of considerations for social inspired Bookchin to write a very important essay change, rescuing it from the esoteric background in the 60's called "Desire and Need." of social theory. Any movement toward freedom will have to figure I spoke with Chaia about her book, her work, and out a way to talk about desire and not just need. I her experience as a radical theorist in August 1999. see this as part of evolutionary and revolutionary thinking. I think there was this potential as we ~ Rebecca DeWitt moved from the Old Left to the New Left but that the advance will only become fulfilled when we can truly understand this historical dialectic between freedom and necessity. It is not sufficient to only have peoples' physical material needs met, and it is certainly not acceptable for that to happen within Y f hat was it like to write this book, struggle centralized authoritarian state structures. We must with these complicated social and political issues, not only figure out how to meet peoples' material and try to propose solutions within the current po needs but also figure out a way to qualitatively trans litical climate? form the way we meet those needs that will be in creasingly subjective and conscious and free. The Writing is the way I deal with the fact that I live in way to do that is to create a political structure that a counter-revolutionary time. It has been an im encourages the greatest degree of social complex portant way for me to do that and helps me keep ity, participation, and that structure would be direct engaged, inspired and focused on revolutionary democracy. ideas and work. I've always been in love with ideas, and thinking about Utopian or revolutionary ideas gives me a sense of hopefulness and possibilities J[ ou state that "focusing solely on need and sur because you can often think beyond what you can vival naturalizes conditions of ecological scarcity do in a particular historical moment. So, I get a lot and destruction... When we lose sight of the quali of satisfaction and joy out of thinking beyond "what tative dimensions of life, we lose the ability to con is given" to "what ought to be." trast the world that is to the world that ought to be." Implicit in this statement is the idea that we can change our society and therefore have no rea J[ ou articulate a revolutionary project in which son to settle for the unjust society we currently have. need (the realm of necessity) must become desire, Many political trends have turned away from the where need is transcended by focusing on our col Utopian approach. Why is it important to maintain lective desire for a better way of life. You state a Utopian ideal? that this desire can and must become politicized. How does desire become politicized? This goes back to how do you cope with life in a counter-revolutionary time. Utopia can imply some I think that it entails a dialectic. The dialectic of sort of evolutionary vision and progress, and im natural evolution is this movement towards ever plies not just change but some qualitative progres greater levels of consciousness, freedom, subjec sion; a shift from "what is" to "what ought to be." tivity. And, I think that this dialectic is not just continued on page 6 In This Issue: PERSPECTIVES Grant Awards and Updates page 3 ON ANARCHIST What's Happening page 4 IAS Development page 10 THEORY Fall 1999, Vol. 3, No, 2 IAS Update Newsletter of thei&titute In these politically uncertain times we need to con for Anarchist Studies an anarchist analysis. (Read more about our June tinue to gather strength by exploring new ideas and 1999 grant awards on page 3). Also, we were the potential for change. At the IAS we have been Editorial Committee: excited to receive a finished copy of Mark Bonhert Rebecca DeWitt, Chuck Morse, doing just that and there are quite a few things to and Richard Curtis' project, Passionate and Dan Eva Garcia report. gerous: Conversations with Midwestern Anti- Authoritarians and Anarchists. (See page 3 to I want to first mention a very important organiza Grammatical .Partisans: read more about the project and find out how to tional change. This June the IAS board voted to Hamish Alcorn, Andrew Bellware, obtain a copy.) make me the General Director of IAS. I am very Paul Glavin, Qayyum Johnson excited to take on this role and I am inspired by the We are also in the middle of our 1999 fundraising challenges this position presents and the contribu campaign, whose success will allow us to con Subscription Rates tions I can make to the growth of the IAS. Chuck tinue awarding grants, publishing Perspectives, (Two issues per year) Morse (the founder of the IAS) has held this posi and add $10,000 to the IAS endowment We will I A S D o n o r s - F r e e tion since the organization's inception more than be able to add $10,000 to the endowment thanks I n d i v i d u a l s - $ 5 three years ago. It was agreed that this administra Institutions • - ' ' *- $10 to a combination of two sources: last November tive change would help bring new perspectives to Bulk Subs (25 Copies) - $25 1998, a generous IAS supporter pledged to do bear on the direction of the IAS and also help Chuck nate $8000 to our endowment upon the success devote more time to fundraising and other IAS ac of the our 1999 fundraising campaign and we tivities. Chuck will, of course, continue as a mem will add $2000 to that amount, bringing the total Institute/or Anarchist Studies) ber of the IAS administrative staff, co-editor of the to $10,000 (see page 11 for more details). We newsletter, and a member of the board. have set big goals for ourselves this year but we tives do notnecessarily represenithe views anticipate success with the generous help of long We have also been working to develop the prin of the IAS as a whole. The material in this time supporters, new friends and those who have ciples and structure of the IAS. For the last six already donated. newsletter is © the Institute for Anarchist months three local board members met regularly Studies. to address IAS developmental issues. We have fo Perrenial Books has changed their name but not *** > cused on reevaluating our grant priorities, board their commitment to the IAS and radical litera -IAS Board of Directors: , development and finances in light of the current ture. Perennial has become Raven Used Books Paula Emery, John Petrovato, weakness of radical theory and politics. We feel (located in Amherst, Massachusetts) and continue Dan Chodorkoff, Cindy Milstein, the main purpose of the IAS is to cultivate and help to help the IAS by making forty-eight titles avail Michelle Matisons, Maura Dillon, > re-build a radical movement and we are working able to IAS donors (please see the insert , Paul Glavin, Chuck Morse to refine our principles and strategies accordingly. enclosed in this issue for a listing of the excep In addition, the board passed a proposal to tional books they are offering). Administrative Staff: strengthen the percentage of local board members Chuck Morse, Eva Garcia based in New York City so that there will be more The IAS has been in existence for three and a .Rebecca DeWitt of a support network and radical milieu around the half years, we have given away $17,000 to IAS headquarters in. We have also set ourselves eightteen projects, we have published six issues General Director: , >,^ the task of rewriting the brochure and translating of Perspectives (including this issue), and we are Rebecca DeWitt it into several languages. Please see page 10 for a settling in our new home in NYC. What is espe detailed report of our endeavors over the last six cially encouraging is that the IAS has taken root ' *** months. in the widespread anarchist and radical commu , Institute for Anarchist Studies nity and is appreciated by activists and writers P.O. Box 1664 The IAS continues to award grants to exciting both nationally and internationally. All of these Peter Stuyvesant Station projects and see the results of previous grant awards.
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