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A LITTLE PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON OF ANARCHISM FROM PROUDHON TO DELEUZE Daniel Colson Translated by Jesse Cohn A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze Daniel Colson Translated by Jesse Cohn ISBN 978-1-57027-341-4 Cover design by Haduhi Szukis Interior layout by Margaret Killjoy Released by Minor Compositions 2019 Colchester / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia www.minorcompositions.info | [email protected] Distributed by Autonomedia PO Box 568 Williamsburgh Station Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.autonomedia.org [email protected] CONTENTS Preface: The Translation Manual ....................... 1 Jesse Cohn Preface ...........................................19 A................................................ 23 A priori/a posteriori – Action (practice) – Active minorities – Afnitary (afnity groups) – Afnity (elective afnity) – Afrmation – Alienation – Alliance – Altruism – Analogy (homology) – Anarchism of the right – Anarchism – Anarchist chemistry – Anarcho-syndicalism – Anarchy – Anguish – Anti-authoritarian/anti-power – Anti-something – Anti-speciesism – Apeiron – Appetites – Application – Arrangement (collective arrangement) – Association/disassociation – Autonomy B ............................................... 41 Balance – Base (horizontality) – Becoming – Being – Beyond one’s own limits (beyond what one can do) – Body (human body) – Bombs – Boss – Brain C............................................... 49 Capital – Capture – Care for the self – Causes – Chaos – Chaplin – Charge of nature – Christian anarchism (religious anarchism) – Circumstances – Class (social, sexual, generational, etc.) – Class struggle – Classification – Collective (social) – Collective beings – Collective reason (public reason) – Common concepts – Common sense/good sense – Commons (common project, common arrangement) – Communication – Commutation – Components – Composed unity – Composition – Concept – Conformism – Consciousness – Constraint – Contract – Contradictions, contradictory – Contrariety – Convention – Core – Culture – Cynicism D ...............................................65 Daoism – Death – Definition – Dependency – Desire – Determination – Determinism – Devil (diabolic, demons) – Dialectic – Diferences – Dignity – Direct – Direct action – Direct democracy – Direction of the conscience – Disassociation – Discipline (self-discipline) – Domination – Dualism – Duty of memory E................................................75 Economy – Efectiveness – Ego – Élan vital – Emancipation (afrmation) – Encounters – Ends/means – Energy – Entelechy – Entity – Equality – Equilibrium of forces – Eternal Return – Eternity – Ethics – Evaluation – Evanescent (transitory) – Event – Experience – Experts (scientists) – Expression – Exterior/interior (external/internal, extrinsic/ intrinsic) F ............................................... 91 Federalism – Feedback [rétroaction] – Focal point (focalization) – Fold – Force (collective force, collective being) – Fractiousness – Free will – Freedom – Friends of our friends G ...............................................99 Genealogy – General (and insurrectionary) strike – General assembly – Generosity – Gesture – Given moment – God – Good sense – Good/bad [bon/mauvais] – Good/evil [bien/mal] – Government – Great Evening – Groups (groupings) – Guilt H ..............................................109 Hagiography – Herd – Heteronomy – Hierarchy – Hinter-world – History – Homology – Horizontality – Humanism I ...............................................115 Idea – Ideal (utopia) – Identity – Ideomania – Idiosyncrasy – Imaginary – Immanence – Immediate – Imperative mandate – Imperceptible – Implication (altruism) – Implicit – Impotence/powerlessness [impuissance] – Impulse – Indefinite – Indeterminacy/Indeterminate – Indignation – Indiscernibles – Individual – Individuation – Instinct – Insubordination – Insurrection – Integral pacifism – Interior (internal) – Inner world – Interval – Intimate (intimacy, intimate circle) – Intimate being [être intime] (eternity) – Intuition– Irrational J ...............................................129 Joy/sadness – Judgment – Justice – Justification L ..............................................131 Labor – Laboratory – Lack – Leader – Liberalism – Life (evanescent) – Limitlessness of the limited – Limits – Localism – Locking horns [Prise de têtes] M ..............................................139 Main front/second front – Manual/intellectual – Mass (masses) – Master/ slave – Matter – Mediation – Midst of things – Milieu (libertarian milieu) – Militant – Mobility – Monad – Monism (pluralism) – More than oneself – Movement (becoming) – Multiple – Multiplicity – Multitude N ..............................................155 Natural laws – Naturalism – Nature – Necessity (freedom) – Negation – Neoconfucianism – Neoliberals [libertariens] – Nodes of forces – Nomad – Nomos – Non–violence O ..............................................163 Objective – Objects – One (unity) – Oppression – Order (system) – Organization – Other (the other) – Outside/inside P...............................................169 Particular – Passage to the act – Past – Patriarchy – People – Person (personalism) – Point of view – Perspectivism (perspective) – Perversion – Pity – Place/site – Plane of immanence (plane of consistency, plane of composition) – Planes of reality (plane of composition, worlds) – Plastic force – Platform, platformism – Plenitude – Pluralism (libertarian pluralism) – Plurality – Political commissar – Political vitalism – Positive anarchy – Possession (property) – Possibilities – Potential – Power [pouvoir] – Power (collective power) [puissance/puissance collective] – Power of the outside – Practical sense – Practice – Preindividual – Private/public – Pro-feminist – Prodigality – Project – Propaganda by the deed – Property – Pro–something – Psychopathic – Public confession – Put to death R..............................................203 Raison d’être – Reaction – Refusal – Relation of forces – Rational – Relativism – Rendering of accounts – Repetition – Representation (representative democracy) – Repugnance – Repulsion – Reserve of being – Respect – Responsibility – Responsible – Ressentiment – Resultant – Revocability – Revolt – Revolution – Revolutionary syndicalism – Right wing/left wing – Right/law (contracts, conventions) – Rupture S .............................................. 213 Sadness/joy – Science – Scientific laws (causes) – Scientists – Secession – Secrecy/transparency –Selection – Self – Self–criticism – Self–discipline – Self–improvement – Self–management (self–government) – Self– sufciency – Sensibility – Sensitivity – Separatism [non–mixité] – Serial dialectic – Series (seriation) – Servants of the people (of the State or any other so-called “higher” cause