A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze

A provocative exploration of hidden affinities and genealogies in anarchist thought Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s declaration: “I am an anarchist”? Has anarchism, for more than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical heresies and “a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official edifice of philosophy,” with profound implications for the way we understand social movements. CONTENTS Preface: The Translation Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jesse Cohn Preface ...........................................19 A................................................ 23 A priori/a posteriori – Action (practice) – Active minorities – Affinitary (affinity groups) – Affinity (elective affinity) – Affirmation – 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 – Differences – Dignity – Direct – Direct action – Direct democracy – Direction of the conscience – Disassociation – Discipline (self-discipline) – Domination – Dualism – Duty of memory E................................................75 Economy – Effectiveness – Ego – Élan vital – Emancipation (affirmation) – 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– sufficiency – Sensibility – Sensitivity – Separatism [non–mixité] – Serial dialectic – Series (seriation) – Servants of the people (of the State or any other so-called “higher” cause or authority) – Sexuality – Signification – Singularity – Situation – Slavery/freedom – Social – Social bond – Social Explosion – Social Revolution – Solidarity – Solitude – Species activity – Spontaneism – Spontaneity (spontaneity of action) – State – Statistics (mathematics) – Stoppage – Subject (revolutionary subject) – Subjectivity – Subversion – Suffering – Superabundance – Symbols (signs) – Syndicate (revolutionary) – Synthesis, synthesism (platform, platformism) T.............................................. 239 Temperament (idiosyncrasy) – Tension – Terrorism – Theory/practice – Thing – Time – To be separated from oneself – To do all that one can/To go to the limits of one’s capacity – To risk one’s life – To the whipping post! – Tools/ weapons – Totality/totalitarianism – Tradition – Transcendence – Transduction – Transindividual – Transparency – Trust U ..............................................257 Unconscious – Unity – Universal – Universal causality – Univocal being – Utilitarianism – Utopia V...............................................261 Vanguard – Vengeance – Violence – Virility – Vital – Voluntarism – Voluntary servitude W............................................. 265 War (warlike) – Weapons – Will – Will to power – Worker (workerism) – Worker separatism – Worlds (plurality of worlds) "Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's declaration: "I am an anarchist"? Has anarchism, for more than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical heresies and "a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official edifice of philosophy," with profound implications for the way we understand social movements"--Publisiher's description