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"Transatlantic Radicalism: Socialist and Anarchist Exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries" is a collection of essays that emerged from a symposium held in Germany in 2017. The book focuses on the history of radicalism and transnationalism, with an emphasis on the role of individuals in shaping these movements. The essays cover a range of topics, including the relationship between Italian and Brazilian anarchists, the role of individualist anarchists in Panama, and the experiences of exiles in different countries. While the book offers innovative insights, some chapters have weaknesses, such as a lack of historical accuracy and a gender imbalance among the contributors. Overall, the book provides valuable perspectives on transatlantic radicalism but lacks cohesion and dialogue between the authors. [Extracted from the article]

Radicality of Utopia. Female Friendship and Alternative Relationship Concepts in the Argentinian Anarchist Women’s Movement. This article deals with alternative relationship models developed by the anarchist women’s movement in Argentina. It focuses in particular on the newspaper La Voz de la Mujer, which appeared in nine issues from 1896 to 1897. The paper provided a platform for anarchist women writers and activists to present alternatives to marriage and to take a stand on the ideas of free love, sisterhood and female friendship. Within a broader analysis of journalistic, academic and fictional texts, the article examines the newspaper’s contributions for their utopian, creative and speculative character. It explores their radical conceptualisations of political, social and familial relationships and the extent to which these differ from conventional models designed by state structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines a specific case study —the issues arising from Spanish colonialism and later U.S. imperialism— on Cuba at the turn of the nineteenth century through the lens of the working-class movement of anarchism. Anarchists in Cuba, many of whom were Spanish émigrés, argued that true emancipation came not from patriotism, nationalism and the political form of the state, but through self-organization and the transformation of “the social”. Tensions arose, however, within anarchist newspapers, upon which this article draws extensively, as to whether the pursuance of nationhood was an interim stage in this development or a trap offered by the bourgeois classes to domesticate workers’ demands. The state, nevertheless, was consistently rejected as a desirable medium or end destination.

Sophie Scott-Brown's intellectual biography of Colin Ward does a superb job of putting Ward's anarchism in its historical and political context. In so doing Scott-Brown arguably draws attention to how Ward's pragmatic anarchism was dependent on post-war social democracy in the UK. This comment explores whether this makes Ward's anarchism vulnerable in the following sense: that, as an anarchism, it cannot take sides in the struggle between social democracy and neo-liberalism even though its own prospects for success depend on the strength of social democracy. Ward's anarchism may be contrasted in this respect with libertarian/radical democratic socialisms (such as of Sheila Rowbotham and Stuart Hall) which envisage a simultaneous struggle both 'for' and 'against' the (social democratic) state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An examination of the Siege of Sidney Street, and the associated Houndsditch police murders and 'Tottenham Outrage' is not new. The author of this new work, Andrew Whitehead, takes the reader beyond a narrative detail of these momentous events in British criminal history and instead looks at the political and social situation in London's East End, only a generation after the Ripper era. He examines the lives and backgrounds to the outsiders of the era – Eastern European 'revolutionary anarchists' fleeing Imperial Russia and the oppression of the tsarist Okhrana secret police, to the supposedly tolerant shores of England. He seeks to understand what motivated their decision to commit such heinous crimes, and the fallout for the perpetrators, and wider British society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carolyn J. Eichner's book, "Feminism's Empire," is a significant contribution to the fields of French history, the history of feminism, and the history of imperialism and anti-imperialism. The book focuses on the relationships between nineteenth-century French feminists and the French empire. Eichner examines the lives and work of five pioneering French feminists who addressed empire in their writings and speeches, while also exploring the ways in which they participated in certain forms of imperialist stereotyping. The book offers new insights into the intersections of feminism, imperialism, and race, and is recommended for researchers interested in French history, feminism, and imperialism. [Extracted from the article]

The study "Anarchist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy" by Dominique F. Miething examines the attraction of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical work to anarchism in Germany, Great Britain, and the USA from 1890 to 1947. The study focuses on the reception of Nietzsche in Germany, the USA, and Great Britain, while leaving out the significant anarchist movements in France and Spain. Friedrich Nietzsche himself was fundamentally opposed to anarchism and was interpreted both approvingly and critically by anarchists. The study shows that the so-called Nietzschean anarchism is a variant of anarchism that uses Nietzsche's thinking to critique submissiveness. [Extracted from the article]

This article aims to offer an overview on how Islamic anarchism can be conceptualized into the field of the history of political thought. This study is divided into three parts: a preliminary analysis of the relationship between the anarchist thought and the monotheistic conception of God, together with a focus on the anarchist orientalist visions on Islam. And a core part where a fragmented literature on Islamic anarchism is studied through the methodology of elective affinities. Presenting both the anti-authoritarian religious formulations of Muslim thinkers who lived during the ninth century in Basra, Iraq; and the anarchist Koranic exegesis of two contemporary Muslim activists: Mohamed Abdou and Abdennur Prado. The final result is an analysis of the isomorphism that have intervened between the Islamic thought and the anarchist one, across time and space.

ÖZ: Modern ideolojilerden birisi olan anarşizm, Türk siyasal-düşünsel hayatının herhangi bir döneminde etkili olamamış ve Türk yazınında kendine neredeyse hiç yer bulamamıştır. Ancak Kara ve Efendisiz dergileri ile birlikte, 1980’li yılların ikinci yarısında anarşist ideolojiyi merkezine alan bir süreli yayıncılık faaliyeti başlamıştır. Bu dergiler, anarşist hareketi kavramlar, kişiler ve olaylar ışığında aktardığı gibi siyasal, sosyal ve ekonomik meseleleri de anarşist bir perspektifle analiz etmişlerdir. Ulusal ve uluslararası düzeyde cereyan eden birçok mesele, dergi yazarları tarafından ele alınmıştır. Bu makalenin amacı, Kara ve Efendisiz dergilerinin bıraktığı yazınsal birikimin incelenmesi, yayımlanan içeriklerin detaylı analizinin yapılması ve dergilerin Türkiye’deki anarşist düşünceye ne tür katkıları olduğunun saptanmasıdır. Tematik içerik analizi yöntemiyle ele aldığımız bu çalışmanın kapsamı, Kara ve Efendisiz dergilerinde yer alan yazı, makale, çeviri eser ve illüstrasyonlar olarak belirlenmiştir. Bu çalışmada ilk kez, Türkiye’deki ilk anarşist dergilerin ortaya koyduğu entelektüel birikim detaylı bir biçimde ele alınmıştır. Çalışmanın bulguları, Türkiye’de anarşizm ve anarşist yayıncılık faaliyetleri üzerine çalışan araştırmacılar için bir rehber niteliğindedir. ABSTRACT: Anarchism, one of the modern ideologies, has not been effective in any period of Turkish political-intellectual life and has hardly found a place for itself in Turkish literature. However, with emergence of the journals of Kara and Efendisiz, a periodical publishing activity centered on anarchist ideology started in the second half of the 1980s. These journals analyzed the political, social and economic issues with an anarchist perspective, as well as presenting the anarchist movement in the light of concepts, people and events. Many national and international issues have been discussed by the authors of the journal. The aim of this article is to examine the literary accumulation left by Kara and Efendisiz journals, to make a detailed analysis of the published contents and to determine what kind of contributions the journals have to anarchist thought in Turkey. The scope of this study, which we handled with thematic content analysis method, was determined as articles, translated works and illustrations in the journals Kara and Efendisiz. In this study, for the first time, the intellectual accumulation of the first anarchist journals in Turkey has been examined in detail. The findings of the study serve as a guide for researchers working on anarchism and anarchist publishing activities in Turkey.

This article is an Introduction to the Fundamental Research Project Encyclopedia of the Contemporary State (Vol. I, 2023). The main object of study of this Project is the performance of the major policies of the states in relation to their essential attributions – first of all, of the member states of the European Union (EU), including Romania, established in their Constitutions, in the founding Treaties of the EU and in the international Treaties to which they are a part. Along with its intrinsic academic and cognitive objectives, the Project also pursues institutional, pragmatic objectives, namely that, upon its completion, each of its co-authors can provide a good expertise in (at least) one of the major thematic areas they have dealt with preponderantly.

This paper examines Muslim anarchists in Turkey who developed an Islam-based anarchist theory opposing private property, the state, capitalism, and all forms of authority. By analyzing their online periodical itaatsiz (disobedient), published since 2013, and earlier works by Muslim anarchist writers, this study explores their perspectives on the West, Islam, the Qur’an, and Sufism. Muslim anarchists stand out for their opposition to the hegemony of Enlightenment-based, anti-theist, and positivist thought in anarchist movements in Turkey and for their encouragement to re-examine concepts such as authority, private property, capitalism, and the state within the framework of Islam-based political thought. Studying how Muslim anarchists construct a social movement in today’s Turkey is essential to understanding Islam-based conceptualizations of politics in Turkey and unpacking the relationship between Islam and anarchism.

Thomas Hobbes's State of War is commonly imagined as a harrowing condition where hostile interactions are the rule and non-hostile encounters are the rare exception. However, while it is generally true that Hobbes purposely outlined his famed condition of anarchy as a condition of perennial conflict, it is also equally true that cooperative behavior was not uncommon. In fact, by only taking into account cooperative behavior, as presented in Leviathan, the anarchic humans leave the absolute uncertainties of the State of War and create the Commonwealth for their safety and well-being. Over the past fifty years or so, several exits from the State of War via game theory have been proposed in the literature, with mixed results. Most (if not all) solutions consider the likelihood of betrayal, usually through the figure of the Fool. This is a valid approach since the condition of anarchy can be imagined as being rife with dishonesty. However, the issue of non-Fools - as far as the players willful cooperation and the ultimate responsibility for the creation of government is concerned, has not been addressed yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all falls down, because it is all falling down. Drawing on alternate histories, alternate visions of nursing history, we imagine what nursing values would look like, embracing anarchist principles. We consider examples of community survival, mutual aid, and militant joy as strategies to achieve what nursing could be if nurses put an end to their cop shit, shrugging off their shroud of white cisheteropatriarchal femininity that manifests as professionalism and civility. We conclude with a call to action and a plan for skill-building because this can all be different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the analysis of the Catholic Worker movement's struggle in addressing anti-Blackness and reconciling it with their anarchism. Topics include the movement's historical background, its leaders' views on leadership and anarchism, and its evolving approach to engaging with civil authorities and promoting racial justice initiatives.

The LCW creates the physical and intellectual spaces in which to practiseradical hospitality and explore Christian anarchism. As these spaces can be transitory,easily destroyed or abandoned, the Catholic Worker must draw on its personalist and anarchist roots to adapt to a rapidly changing world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the book "Language and Utopia: The Esperanto Movement in Spain, 1890-1936" by Roberto Garvía, which explores the history of the Esperanto movement in Spain before the start of the Civil War. The book provides a comprehensive account of the creation of Esperanto associations and federations in Spain, as well as the diverse social actors involved in the movement. It examines the ideological reasons behind the adoption of Esperanto, including its role in facilitating international communication and its association with different political and social groups. The book also delves into the internal diversity of Esperantism in Spain and the various forms of sociability displayed by the movement. While the book offers valuable insights into the history of Esperanto in Spain, some interpretations, such as the idea of Esperantism as a space of respectful coexistence, may be controversial and open to further discussion. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this paper is to problematise the idea of Deleuze as an anarchic thinker on the ground of his metaphysics. Focusing on his early work, it investigates the notion of 'crowned anarchy' that Deleuze borrows from Antonin Artaud and which he uses to describe his conceptualisation of the univocity of being. While this notion has recently been used as a catchphrase in post-anarchist writings, it has received little to no critical investigation. The first section of the paper investigates the relation between ontological anarchy and difference for Deleuze. The second part aims to show the problems surrounding a coronation of anarchy, and goes back to Artaud's Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned (1934). The third section problematises the anarchist status of Deleuze's ontology by arguing that the idea of difference serves as the principle of sufficient reason. With this, I argue that Deleuze does not leave the archic paradigm of philosophy – which should make us reconsider describing his ontology as anarchist. The final part concludes with the underlying problem, the relation between metaphysics and politics, and offers a suggestion for the useability of Deleuze's (and Guattari's) work for the projects of anarchism today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A notable feature of a city or region with close economic and social connections with its neighbours is its highly mixed local and external traffic, and in some cases the external traffic volume is almost as high as that of local traffic. Whilst local traffic volume may be largely made up of the same regular local commuters making frequent trips, external traffic from outside of the city (region) may not be the same people making regular trips to/from the city. However, from a large pool of people making infrequent trips to/from the city, the existence of external traffic is proven by data from the licence plate recognition system of road vehicles in Changde, China. The function of value of time correlated with the income/wage rate and trip frequency is exploited and verified statistically. The time value distorted by trip frequency is defined as perceived time value (PTV), which also influences the way travellers perceive any travel impedance such as congestion delay and toll charges. This paper analyses the price of anarchy (POA) when explicitly considering the travel frequency of the trip-makers and their PTV, and compares with previous analysis without considering travel frequency. We show that when travel frequency is considered, the optimal toll of congested road pricing schemes which converts road traffic flow from user equilibrium into system optimization is much lower than that without considering travel frequency. The cost of licence plate auction cannot be treated as a congestion toll, which is only a threshold of vehicle ownership. That travellers choose routes by PTV rather than TV (time value) is proven by an example of Heishipu Bridge in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contributes to recent discussions on ideal anarchism vs. ideal statism. I argue, contra ideal anarchists, that coercive state institutions would be justified even in a society populated by morally perfect individuals. My defense of ideal statism is novel in that it highlights the moral benefits of state coercion. Rather than the practical effects on individual compliance or the distributive outcomes that follow therefrom, coercive state institutions are justified through the moral benefits they provide. The state is morally beneficial because it a) lessens the demands on the will that fall on agents under ideal anarchism, and b) counters the structural domination that follows from differences in natural endowments. By shifting the focus of the debate from feasibility to desirability, the paper exposes the flaws of ideal anarchism and provides new insights into the moral value of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivated by possible applications in fault-tolerant selfish routing, we introduce the notion of uniform mixed equilibrium in network congestion games with adversarial link failures, where agents need to route traffic from a source to a destination node. Given an integer ρ≥1 , a ρ-uniform mixed strategy is a mixed strategy in which an agent plays exactly ρ edge-disjoint paths with uniform probability; therefore, a ρ-uniform mixed equilibrium is a tuple of ρ-uniform mixed strategies, one for each agent, in which no agent can lower her cost by deviating to another ρ-uniform mixed strategy. For games with weighted agents and affine latency functions, we show the existence of ρ-uniform mixed equilibria and provide a tight characterization of their price of anarchy. For games with unweighted agents, we extend the existential guarantee to any class of latency functions, and restricted to games with affine latencies, we derive a tight characterization of the price of anarchy and the price of stability. Funding: This work was partially supported by the INdAM-GNCS and the Italian MIUR PRIN 2017 Project ALGADIMAR "Algorithms, Games, and Digital Markets." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we investigate a berth allocation game involving m identical berths and n vessels. Each vessel selfishly selects a consecutive set of berths for unloading, with the objective of minimizing its own cost represented by the maximum load among the chosen berths. The social cost is defined as the makespan, i.e., the maximum load over all berths. Our game generalizes classical machine scheduling games where jobs (vessels) may require multiple consecutive machines (berths). We analyze the price of anarchy (PoA) of the berth allocation game, which quantifies the impact of selfish behaviors of vessels. Specifically, we first consider a special case where each job can occupy at most two consecutive machines, and derive exact upper and lower bounds for the PoA based on the number of machines m. We show that the PoA asymptotically approaches 9 4 . For the general case where each job can occupy an arbitrary number of consecutive machines, we obtain a tight bound for the PoA, which is Θ log m log log m . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes the transformation of the image of the Creole and indigenous in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as the emblems that sustain them. It highlights the emergence of an "American Hispanicity" and its key meanings. The magazine Ediciones Achawata has published a book that compiles texts from twenty-eight authors on anarchisms and marxisms in these countries. On the other hand, the book "Philosophy and Critique in Latin America" by Mabel Morafia explores the links between philosophy and critique in Latin America, focusing on the enlightened union between the two since Kant. The book seeks to trace parallel concerns and identify the particularities of each specific space and time in Latin America. [Extracted from the article]

This study investigates the impact of being with friends and companions regarding the Holly Quran. Human is naturally social and always need to live among human being. It is quite difficult to find one who may live away from the society and far from humans. If one lives away from the society will always live and will face with complexities and difficulties because being social and human needs to have friends as well as companions. Being with companions may have a positive impact. In addition, the purpose of this research is to determine the method of choosing a real friend and how to distance yourself from an evil and unwise companion, which in the research method of this article is an analytical topic based on Sharia texts, the result shows that the religion of Islam emphasizes on choosing a friend. On the basis of religiosity, the important feature should be prioritized, which includes having divine piety, intelligence, courage and honesty, which is the result of such a standard of parents, and which reflects the educational and academic efforts of education and educational institutions, and the rule of order. It has become humane in the society and prevents abusers and anarchism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-anarchism poses a profound challenge to the fundamental tenets of traditional anarchism, particularly its veneration of science and reason, its overarching narrative of human emancipation, and its reliance on a sanguine conception of innate human goodness. However, this challenge inadvertently erodes the utopian aspirations inherent in traditional anarchism, leaving a conspicuous absence of a tangible alternative. Yet, a sense of utopia remains integral to the impetus for political engagement. This article seeks to address the implicit quandary of political engagement within post-anarchism by examining the works of Max Stirner through the lens of existentialism. By juxtaposing Stirner's notions of involuntary egoism, ownness, the un-man, and insurrection with the philosophical perspectives of Sartre, Camus, and De Beauvoir, we discover that, despite its anti-political inclination, post-anarchism finds solace in the tragic and ceaseless nomadic pursuit of societal amelioration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurses and patients alike, demanding conformity, obedience, perfection. This capture, which resembles Deleuze's enclosure, entangles nurses in carceral systems and gives way to a postenclosure society, an institution without walls. These societies of control constitute another sort of total institution, more covert and insidious for their invisibility (Deleuze, 1992). While Delezue (1992) named physical technologies like electronic identification badges as key to understanding these societies of control, the political economy of late‐stage capitalism functions as a total institution with no cohesive, centralized, connected material apparatus required. In this manuscript, we outline the ways in which the healthcare industrial complex demands nurse conformity and how that, in turn, operationalizes nurses in service to the institution. This foundation leads to the assertion that nursing must foster a radical imagination for itself, unbound by reality as it presently exists, in order that we might conjure more just, equitable futures for caregivers and care receivers alike. To tease out what a radical imagination might look like, we dwell in paradox: getting folks the care they need in capitalist healthcare systems; engaging nursing's deep history to inspire alternative understandings for the future of the discipline; and how nursing might divest from extractive institutional structures. This paper is a jumping‐off place to interrogate the ways institutions telescope and where nursing fits into the arrangement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Network creation games are a well-known approach for explaining and analyzing the structure, quality, and dynamics of real-world networks that evolved via the interaction of selfish agents without a central authority. In these games selfish agents corresponding to nodes in a network strategically buy incident edges to improve their centrality. However, past research on these games only considered the creation of networks with unit-weight edges. In practice, e.g., when constructing a fiber-optic network, the choice of which nodes to connect and also the induced price for a link crucially depend on the distance between the involved nodes, and such settings can be modeled via edge-weighted graphs. We incorporate arbitrary edge weights by generalizing the well-known model by Fabrikant et al. [Proceedings of PODC'03, ACM, 2003, pp. 347--351] to edge-weighted host graphs and focus on the geometric setting where the weights are induced by the distances in some metric space. In stark contrast to the state of the art for the unit-weight version, where the price of anarchy is conjectured to be constant and where resolving this is a major open problem, we prove a tight nonconstant bound on the price of anarchy for the metric version and a slightly weaker upper bound for the nonmetric case. Moreover, we analyze the existence of equilibria, the computational hardness, and the game dynamics for several natural metrics. The model we propose can be seen as the game-theoretic analogue of the classical network design problem. Thus, low-cost equilibria of our game correspond to decentralized and stable approximations of the optimum network design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article connects neorealist and feminist approaches to International Relations. I claim that neorealism's main assumption, anarchy, and its main variable, the distribution of power, can offer insights into women's and gender-related problems. First, I argue that neorealism's core concepts and theories (anarchy and the balance of power) can help explain how culture forms, how international politics impact women's lives, and even have predictive power concerning the feminist movement itself. Second, I theorize how and when balance-of-power politics may influence women's societal position and introduce a few examples to support my case. Hence, this paper proposes a neorealist feminist synthesis and is an attempt at inter-paradigm dialogue that could prove fruitful for International Relations theory at large [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research delves into the changing patterns of identity and anarchy culture experienced by the United States in the chronology of the space race with China from 2011 to 2021. Utilizing Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory, this study explores the transformation in US space policy as a response to China's growing presence in space exploration. The qualitative methodology employed involves thematic analysis of secondary data sources, including congressional minutes, official statements, media coverage, and public speeches. The findings reveal a dynamic shift in the US's identity, influenced by its interactions on the international stage. During the Cold War, the US's identity, shaped by a Hobbesian culture of anarchy, was marked by rivalry with the Soviet Union. Post-Cold War, the focus shifted to demonstrating leadership through international cooperation, reflecting a Kantian logic. However, with the emergence of China as a formidable competitor, the US identity has once again transformed, now characterized by a Lockean culture of competition rather than direct conflict. This shift has led to significant policy reformulations, including strategic partnerships and renewed emphasis on self-reliance in space missions, such as the Artemis program and collaboration with private sector companies like SpaceX. These results highlight the intricate relationship between national identity, perceived threats, and policy responses, underscoring the fluid nature of US space policy in the context of global space contestation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, historians have made important contributions to our understanding of the relationship between childhood and leftist politics. Despite this, our conception of 'anarchist childhoods' - and of what could be called the 'anarchist life cycle' - remains relatively limited. Therefore, this article examines the interactions between children and adults in the Argentine anarchist movement and delves into the ways in which anarchists understood childhood. The analysis focuses on the city of Rosario de Santa Fe, drawing on the contemporary press, and archival material produced by the local authorities and activists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The central contribution of this work is its definition of anarchist pedagogy and parenting as forms of 'prefigurative politics': encapsulating the ideals of the movement, they became means of constructing, in the present, the future anarchist society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview discusses energy justice, the university, academic research and autonomous politics. This dialogue expresses concern with energy, but also environmental, justice scholarship and movements. This entails the failure to adequately connect the continuity between (neo)colonialism, capitalism and statism in theory and action, which simultaneously subordinates anti-authoritarian and autonomous politics to liberal academic frameworks (e.g. recognition, procedure, distribution). Extractive development is not adequately challenged by energy justice, meanwhile academic decolonial theory tend to ignore combative struggles and discussion in the Global South or North. Academic decolonial theory remains selective about struggles, simplifies them and/or remains detached from societies-in-movement, which results in tokenizing and ignoring the complexities of autonomous and insurrectionary struggle. Discussing a range of intense topics, this dialogue suggests the need to advance decolonial and anarchist critique of energy and environmental justice scholarship, suggesting the need to move away from justice framings and towards autonomous political conceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The price of anarchy has become a standard measure of the efficiency of equilibria in games. Most of the literature in this area has focused on establishing worst-case bounds for specific classes of games, such as routing games or more general congestion games. Recently, the price of anarchy in routing games has been studied as a function of the traffic demand, providing asymptotic results in light and heavy traffic. The aim of this paper is to study the price of anarchy in nonatomic routing games in the intermediate region of the demand. To achieve this goal, we begin by establishing some smoothness properties of Wardrop equilibria and social optima for general smooth costs. In the case of affine costs we show that the equilibrium is piecewise linear, with break points at the demand levels at which the set of active paths changes. We prove that the number of such break points is finite, although it can be exponential in the size of the network. Exploiting a scaling law between the equilibrium and the social optimum, we derive a similar behavior for the optimal flows. We then prove that in any interval between break points the price of anarchy is smooth and it is either monotone (decreasing or increasing) over the full interval, or it decreases up to a certain minimum point in the interior of the interval and increases afterwards. We deduce that for affine costs the maximum of the price of anarchy can only occur at the break points. For general costs we provide counterexamples showing that the set of break points is not always finite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study the inefficiency of pure Nash equilibria in symmetric network congestion games defined over series-parallel networks with affine edge delays. For arbitrary networks, Correa (Math Oper Res 44(4):1286–1303, 2019) proved a tight upper bound of 5/2 on the PoA. On the other hand, for extension-parallel networks, a subclass of series-parallel networks, Fotakis (Theory Comput Syst 47:113–136, 2010) proved that the PoA is 4/3. He also showed that this bound is not valid for series-parallel networks by providing a simple construction with PoA 15/11. Our main result is that for series-parallel networks the PoA cannot be larger than 2, which improves on the bound of 5/2 valid for arbitrary networks. We also construct a class of instances with a lower bound on the PoA that asymptotically approaches 27/19, which improves on the lower bound of 15/11. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did Orwell arrive at his rules for writing in "Politics and the English Language"? Here, I offer a modernist archaeology of the essay, showing how it emerges from The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Homage to Catalonia (1938). Concrete words such as "shale" and "shingle" served as a material currency to resist the impressionism of the travel writing of Lawrence and Forster, or the abstraction of Marxist discourse. Orwell's ambivalence towards modernist introspection, at times shared by Empson, Jameson, Woolf, Pound, and Cunard, drove him towards a materialist and nationalist theory and practice of language and prose form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyzes a corpus of fanzines produced between 1986 and 1993 in various cities in the province of Buenos Aires and the Argentine capital. Created using affordable techniques and materials with non-profit motives, these publications were part of different political-cultural initiatives linked to anarchist activism and the underground punk scene. Adopting a methodological perspective in which the magazines constitute polyvalent and heterogeneous objects, our analysis considers their material, textual, and visual dimensions, as well as the distribution methods adopted. Based on this premise, we aim to recover the residual and emergent elements that engage with the past and present of a period marked by the process of democratic recovery and consolidation. Finally, we trace the connections established between these publications, through the overlap of spaces, individuals, and events referenced within the corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we aim to analyze the processes of stigmatization and pathologization to which certain groups of bodily inscriptions have been submitted throughout the history of modern western society. Body inscriptions are understood to be any and all modifications carried out on the body surface. While some inscriptions are exalted and praised, others are stigmatized and the target of social discrimination. We have as a theoretical lens the anarchist philosophy, in order to claim self-determination and autonomy of subjects whose inscriptions are marginalized, from those considered self-mutilation to extreme body modifications. Our method is the bibliographic review. We conclude, after a theoretical review, that the qualification of certain bodily inscriptions as accepted and positive to the detriment of the disqualification of others, which are considered negative and bizarre, are not natural processes, but rather come from the dense structuring of religious, psychiatric, and political discourses. The origin of the legitimation of certain inscriptions is the same as the delegitimation and consequent stigmatization, that is, the authority, which comes from the State, the Church, and the Hospital, as we seek to argue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss how neocolonialist policies are configured in the novel Paradox, Rey, by PíoBaroja. Considering the violent process of colonization of the African continent imposed by European nations in the 19th century, two hypotheses lead this work: firstly, to problematize French domination in African countries, Pío Baroja ends up repeating the same practices adopted by the French, employing a political-cultural imposition and the cultural silencing of the other. On the other hand, trying to introduce a logic that escapes from the colonialist policies that European countries imposed on the African continent with the objective of economic enrichment by way of exploitation, the anarchism put into practice in Bu-Tata is also not possible. The impossibility is so much since this is imposed by Europeans, for not being able to escape the genocidal logic of colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Gustav Landauer's mystical anarchism, focusing on the concept of overcoming death as a core element of his thought. It explores Landauer's rejection of death as both a linguistic superstition and a limited worldview, emphasizing the collective whole over individualism. The essay suggests that Landauer's representation of revolution moving from space to time includes his account of mystical anarchy, which fosters a deep connection with the past and a sense of unity with the world and humanity. This shift in perspective promotes a more fulfilling and meaningful existence within a larger, authentic community that is an antidote to the constraints of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edward Trautner (1890-1978) was a pharmacologist at the University of Melbourne in the 1940s and 50s who did pioneering work on lithium treatment for psychiatric disorders. His unusual past was a topic of great interest among his colleagues, who often creatively embroidered his story in the retelling. This paper introduces Trautner as his colleagues remembered him, and tells the true story of his childhood in Bavaria, his combat experience in World War I, his turn to anarchist politics and literary experiment in the 1920s, his bohemian life in Spain and England in the 1930s, his deportation to Australia in 1940, and his transformation then (at the age of 50) into a leading medical scientist. It examines his apprenticeship as a plant chemist, and the political efforts of his mentor, Professor R.D. 'Pansy' Wright, to protect and foster his genius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Civic and political engagement are at an inflection point in the United States. While some forms of engagement are on a negative path (e.g. contested civic education, dwindling community group membership), other forms are increasing (e.g. unionization, volunteerism, protests) (Atwell, Stillerman, Bridgeland, 2021). Many scholars and activists claim that one way to increase civic and political engagement is through civic education, yet most studies of civic education deal with conventional public schools. Minimal attention has been paid to the civic/political engagement potential of alternative forms of education. This article seeks to add to the relatively small body of knowledge about democratic free schools and their outcomes, especially as related to civic and political engagement. The Albany Free School (AFS) is a democratic free school where students self-direct their education. Such schools are part of a counter-hegemonic movement in the United States that dates back to the early 20th century and which has both anarchist and libertarian roots (von Duyke, 2013). Such schools purport to create spaces where students can develop critical authorial agency (Matusov, 2020) and habits/skills of engagement in the political/civic sphere. This article, based on data from interviews conducted with 18 alumni of the AFS, focuses specifically on discussions of alumni political and/or civic engagement and begins with a literature review defining how political and civic engagement manifests, and then moves into exploring the existing literature on the political/civic engagement-related outcomes of democratic free schools. This literature is mixed as to whether such schools are successful at nurturing such engagement, and the findings of the data collected in this study confirm these mixed outcomes. The article concludes with a discussion of the paradox presented in democratic education between having no defined curricular endpoints and a declared set of characteristics and dispositions that are sought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Alexander Schulz: De rege Henrico - a Condensed Mirror for Princes for Henry the Young King (1155 - 1183)? Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. C 568 contains an unedited poem of one hundred leonine hexameters that has previously been read in the light of King Henry II's death (1133 - 1189). However, it is much more likely that the poem celebrates the birth of the heir apparent, Henry the Young King (1155 - 1183). Probably composed around 1157/1158 at St Albans Abbey, it encourages the future king to rule in justice, obey the church, and lead an exemplary life. Previous speculations that the poem may have been written by John de Cella are not convincing. It is tempting to think that this condensed mirror for princes might reflect England's hopes for dynastic stability after the years of the Anarchy (1135 - 1153). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]