مردگان ناآرام: آنارشیسم، فاشیسم و اسطوره‌شناسی

“In our age of nostalgia, as we sort through and dust off relics of our past and recuperate them for future emotional and financial investment, old attitudes of rebellion are becoming resonant again. I write to assess current and historical movement towards fascism, on the one hand, and liberation, on the other. Neither currently dominate the world we live in; both are opposed to it. I write, therefore, to ask questions of our collective imaginary. To do so, I put pieces of entirely different puzzles together, unexpected conjunctions that may evoke interesting results. As Anna Tsing puts it, ‘To write a history of ruin, we need to follow broken bits of many stories and to move in and out of many patches. In the play of global power, indeterminate encounters are still important.’ Or, for those who like dialectics: ‘The philosophy of dialectics reveals that everything develops through the unity of opposites, of what are paradoxes to simple observation... To truly know anything, then, is to embrace paradoxes and to find beneath the surface the underlying sub-stratum of reality where contradictions interact...’”