Description
A bourgeoning literature has begun to recover the non-Western history of anarchist theory and practice. From Marseille to Tunis, Hong Kong to Tokyo, Buenos Aires to Manila, scholars have sought to “globalize” and “decolonize” anarchism by showing how anarchist ideas thrived among diasporic communities and in imperial cities. Thinking with queer utopian José Esteban Munoz, jazz musician Alice Coltrane, and black Marxist Cedric Robinson, this paper takes this literature forward by retrieving an alternative genre of anarchism. This is a subterranean style of anarchist thinking that is based—not on the dissemination of European Enlightenment ideas of rationalism and science—but on the dreamworlds, jazz grooves, and mystical folktales of the utopian margins. Travelling astrally, I follow Munoz, Coltrane, and Robinson in and out of this antipolitical universe, cracking open a radical worldmaking project that upends the dominant terms of order.
