The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) rebooted our grants’ program in 2021 to include multimedia. This year’s call for grant proposals prioritized short audio and video projects that would serve as foundations, definitions, or further education on: Black and Indigenous Anarchism(s); Police Abolition and Alternatives; … Read more
This innovative study explores the relevance of class as a theoretical category in our world, arguing that leading traditions of class analysis have missed major elements of what class is and how it operates. It combines instersectional theory and materialism to show that culture, economics, … Read more
IAS Summer Newsletter June, 2021 2021 Marks the 25th Year of the Institute for Anarchist Studies! The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) is excited to celebrate our 25th year – a remarkable anniversary. The IAS is proud to be here, continuing our work to advance … Read more
by the Tilted Scales Collective, with a Foreword by Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. Representing Radicals helps lawyers understand ways to work with radical defendants, with an explicit focus on how to help them achieve ends that go beyond traditional legal goals. For … Read more
Salvaging the Future: A Review of The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (New York: Orbit, 2020) After the basics of food and shelter that we need just as animals, first thing after that: dignity. Everyone needs and deserves this, just as part of being human. And yet this … Read more
The Impossible Dream: A Review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has been hailed as “one of the world’s finest working novelists” (The Guardian) and “one of the most important political writers working in America today” (The New Yorker). And for good reason. His prolific career includes his latest novel, … Read more
In the new Power issue the Perspectives collective collaborates with Kai Lumumba Barrow who provides cover art and images from Gallery of the Streets. Gallery of the Streets is a network of autonomous artists, activists, and scholars committed to abolitionist movement building. Led by queer … Read more
Anarchist Cybernetics
What can anarchist engagements with the cybernetic science of self-organization, buried in an obscure anarchist journal from the 1960s and written by an elusive computer scientist, reveal about the effective functioning of anarchist organization? Anarchy, freedom, and self-organization In comparison to how overused it … Read more
Death Futures
The highway that connects Los Angeles to Phoenix is called many things, but the strip between these two cities is known as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental highway. A sardonic name given the elimination of First Nations and Native peoples in the southwest United States. While … Read more
Time Under Tension: Lessons in Organizing from a Kettlebell Gym
Strength is a Skill Your spine is straight. You have shifted your weight back so that your knees are above your ankles—this is such an uncomfortable position until you learn to trust the muscles that hold you there—and you check to make sure the bell … Read more
