- Lewis Call
Infobox Philosopher
region =Western Philosophy
era =21st-century philosophy
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name = Lewis Call
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school_tradition =Postmodern philosophy ,anarchism
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notable_ideas =Postmodern anarchism
influences =Friedrich Nietzsche ,Gilles Deleuze ,William Gibson
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box_width = 24emLewis Call is an American academic notable for being a central post-anarchist thinker. He is best known for his 2002 book "Postmodern Anarchism", which develops an account of
postmodern anarchism through philosophers such asFriedrich Nietzsche andcyberpunk writers such asWilliam Gibson andBruce Sterling .cite book |last=Call |first=Lewis |title=Postmodern Anarchism |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lexington |year=2002 |isbn=9780739105221 ] Call has written extensively on the intersection of post-anarchism andscience fiction , covering philosophers and authors such asGilles Deleuze ,Jean Baudrillard ,Octavia Butler ,Samuel Delany andUrsula K. LeGuin .Life and work
Call graduated with a B.A. from
University of California, San Diego followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from theUniversity of California, Irvine , finishing his studies in 1996. He is currently a lecturer in intellectual history,political economy and the history of network technology atCalifornia Polytechnic State University inSan Luis Obispo , and holds the position of Associate Editor of "Anarchist Studies ", an international journal of anarchist theory. He received the Distinguished Lecturer Award, from the California Faculty Association (California Polytechnic chapter) in 2005. Call is a dedicated practitioner ofTai Chi Chuan .Thought
Call is credited along with
Saul Newman andTodd May with developing postanarchism from its roots in Frenchpostmodern and classicalanarchist thought . ["Power, Subjectivity, Resistance:Three Works on Postmodern Anarchism", "New Formulation", Volume 2, No.2, Winter/Spring 2004.] Call has attempted to develop post-anarchist theory through the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, rejecting theCartesian concept of the "subject". From here a radical form of anarchism is made possible; the anarchism of becoming. This anarchism does not have an eventual goal, nor flow into "being", it is not a final state of development, nor a static form of society, but rather becomes permanent, as a means without end. Call critiques liberal notions of language, consciousness, and rationality from an anarchist perspective, arguing that they are inherent in economic and political power within the capitalist state organization. [Martin, Edward J. "Call, Lewis Postmodern Anarchism.(Book Review)", "Perspectives on Political Science", June, 2003 ]References
Selected bibliography
*"Postmodern Anarchism" (2002). Lexington: Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739105221.
*"Structures of Desire: Erotic Power in the Speculative Fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany." "Rethinking History" 9: 2/3 (June/September 2005).
*"Anarchy in the Matrix: Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling", "Anarchist Studies ", Volume 7, No. 2.
*"A brief history of Anarchist Studies (so far)", "Anarchist Studies", Volume 15, No. 2.
*"Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin", "SubStance", Volume 36, No. 2, 2007 (Issue 113), pp. 87-105.External links
* [http://cla.calpoly.edu/hist/faculty_profiles/call_lewis.html Faculty profile] at
California Polytechnic State University inSan Luis Obispo .
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