Unchaining Solidarity

Edited by Dan Swain; Petr Urban; Catherine Malabou and Petr Kouba

The concept of mutual aid is central to the anarchist tradition, but also a source of controversy. This book's intervention is to consider solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of politics and biology, developing out of the work of Catherine Malabou.

Chap. 1 Introduction - Petr Kouba, Catherine Malabou, Dan Swain, Petr UrbanChap. 2 Politics of Plasticity: On Solidarity and Cooperation - Catherine MalabouPart I 'An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair' - Solidarity and PlasticityChap. 3 The Dynamics of Plasticity - Rasmus Sandness HaukedalChap. 4 Materialisms, Old and New: Solidarity and Individuation in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou - Arianne ContyChap. 5 Solidarity, Cooperation and Equality in View of Plasticity - Petr KoubaChap. 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault - Elmo FeitenChap. 7 On the Concept of Nature, or the Biology and Politics of Cooperation - Bart¿omiej B¿esznowski, Cezary RudnickiChap. 8 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices - Thomas TeliosPart II 'The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature' - Mutual Aid Between Biology and PoliticsChap. 9 Depressive Revolution and Anxious Solidarity - Julie ResheChap. 10 Mutual Aid Technologies: Plasticity "All the Way Down" - Eugene KuchinovChap. 11 Solidarity: not altruism - Jonas F CostaChap. 12 Selfish Genes, Evil Nature: The Christian Echoes in Neo-Atheism - Ole M. SandbergChap. 13 Loosing the Chains: Solidarity and Universal Interdependence - Alessandro Volpe and Federico BinaPart III 'At the End of the Day, It's Just Us' - The Actuality of Mutual AidChap. 14 Counterpublics of the common. Feminist solidarity unchained - Ewa MajewskaChap. 15 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearoid Brinn and Georgina ButterfieldChap. 16 From Scaremongering to care-mongering - Jade da Costa Chap. 17 Prefigurative Biology: Can mutual aid be natural and prefigurative? - Dan SwainIndex