Prepping for the inaugural “Beyond Pedagogy” inquiry group meeting this Thursday, I’m rereading the first book I’ve chosen for the group: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.

I’ll have more to share after the event and will give more context about the group itself. For now, I’m putting together a toolbox of words Graeber seems to suggest as working language towards an anarchist vernacular within the academy. These words suggest places from which a discussion of what’s next should be headed. I’m not delving into definitions yet…trying to create a matrix from which to further discussion on Thursday, if needed.

“Revolutionary Practice” (page 6)
“Transformative project” (page 9)
“Machinery of Violence” (page 11) – “assaults on the role of imagination as a political principle”
“Direct democratic process”
“Alternative moralities” (page 21)
“Imaginary counterpower” (page 24)
“Invisible spaces” (page 34) – place where “potential for insurrection” comes from
“Imaginative identification” (page 35)
“Spectral violence” (page 35)

Will finish the book tomorrow or Wednesday – will add to tool/sand-box then.