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Facing Autonomy

By: Zara Richter and Sher Ali Khan
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  • Sher Ali Khan and Zara Richter have formed this project named "Facing Autonomy" as a combination of Marxist author CLR James and the global movement most well known for originating in Italy named Autonomist Marxism. Specifically Facing Autonomy is a leftist blog and podcast in honor of American-British author CLR James and his mid twentieth century combination of anti-racist politics, Trotskyist deviationism and Anarchist or Council Communist approaches. James' work in many parts of his life represents the wide swath of leftist political approaches used in the American and European 20th Century. In addition to James, Autonomist Marxists from Italy, such as Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri and Sylvia Frederici, among others, have been key in exposing the failures and limits of traditional forms of marxist, anarchist and liberal organizing which attempt to sway the working class through a vanguardist organizational sensibility that institutes a divide between organizational leadership and the rank and file. Facing Autonomy takes on all of these questions in our blogs and podcasts on a weekly basis! Feel free to email us or tune in to expand your notion of how the organized left can connect to the freely expressive workers whose autonomy is always manifesting in differing forms.
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Episodes
  • Zara and Flo interview Sasha Durakov: Psychiatric Patient Autonomy, Hearing Voices Network and Unsoundmind.org

    Zara and Flo interview Sasha Durakov: Psychiatric Patient Autonomy, Hearing Voices Network and Unsoundmind.org
    Apr 15 2021

    In this podcast, host Zara along with newly added Facing Autonomy Collective member Flo of London UK interview Psychiatric patient activist Sasha Durakov about his website Unsoundmind.org and about his work in Hearing Voices Network and his broader stances on matters of antipsychiatry in relation to anarchism.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Facing Autonomy Collective Reads Benjamin's Critique Of Violence

    Facing Autonomy Collective Reads Benjamin's Critique Of Violence
    Mar 9 2021

    Zara, Sher, Arturo and Tancrede have a conversation about “Critique Of Violence” by Walter Benjamin. We discuss the various notions of “political general strike” and “proletarian general strike” contained in Benjamin’s landmark essay and we also relate the notions of violence in the essay to current events such as the farmer’s protest in India, the right wing attack on the US government of January 6th and the George Floyd Uprising of last summer.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Anarchist Diagnostics Of The Future: An Interview with Peter Gelderloos

    Anarchist Diagnostics Of The Future: An Interview with Peter Gelderloos
    Feb 7 2021

    In this interview with Zara and Sher of the Facing Autonomy Podcast, famed Anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos initially sketches out his personal history of organizing both in the US and in Barcelona, Spain as well as his early work before moving to an in-depth discussion of his most recent essay “Diagnostics of the Future” and his newest book project concerning colonization and ecology.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
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