The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!
Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.
This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!
Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.
Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.
ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities
The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).
Is Black and Red Dead?
An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.
New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People
Click on Call for Papers above
Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
Leeds, 19 February 2010.
ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
John Cromby, Steve Brown and Steve Vallance
The session consisted of two papers followed by a discussion. The first paper set out some of the shortcomings of mainstream psychology, and surveyed some of the potentials associated with influential strands of Marxist psychology. The second drew on Deleuze and the notion of immanence to posit a possible basis for a non-foundational psychology that might, perhaps, be compatible with anarchism. Ten or so people attended the session and took part in the discussion, which uncovered some interesting tensions between US and European interpretations of psychology’s political potentials. The core message of the symposium was that psychology’s treatment of social relations as context, rather than as both constituents and as conditions of possibility, and this was well received by most. Unsurprisingly, however, no firm conclusions were reached and there remains an interesting territory to be explored here at the intersection of social science with individual experience.