Unchaining Solidarity

Dan Swain is research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is the author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx’s Ethics of Self-Emancipation and Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory which was nominated for the Bread and Roses prize for radical publishing.Petr Urban is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State.Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.

Unchaining Solidarity composes a bracing study of anarchist social forms to reveal their capacity to unleash the protean, emancipatory powers of the commons in singular figurations of non-reciprocity. Voicing variations on Catherine Malabou's opening invocation of a "politics of plasticity," its essays deploy a powerfully conceived political and conceptual force as they range freely across the contemporary forms of anarchist solidarity, from neuroplasticity and new materialism to Covid and feminist solidarity.

• Chapter 1 Unchaining Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Anarchism – Dan Swain, Petr Urban, Catherine Malabou, and Petr KoubaChapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains – Catherine MalabouPart I ‘An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair’ - Solidarity and PlasticityChapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices – Thomas TeliosChapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity – Petr KoubaChapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis – Rasmus Sandnes HaukedalChapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault – Tim Elmo FeitenChapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou – Arianne ContyPart II‘The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature’ - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary BiologyChapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearóid Brinn & Georgina ButterfieldChapter 9 Mutual Aid Armat