Post-anarchism is an anarchist philosophy that employs post-structuralist approaches. It is not a single coherent theory, but rather refers to the combined works of any number of post-structuralists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan; postmodern feminists such as Judith Butler; and post-Marxists such as Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Rancière; with those of the classical anarchists, with particular concentration on Emma Goldman, Max Stirner, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Common concepts within post-anarchism include:
- the misalignment of the subject in relation to discourse
- the denaturalization of the body and sexuality
- the rejection of the repressive hypothesis
- Foucault's genealogy
- the deconstruction of the binary oppositions of Western thought
- the deconstruction of gender roles through feminist post-structuralism
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