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.

Chapter 1 Unchaining Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Anarchism – Dan Swain, Petr Urban, Catherine Malabou, and Petr Kouba

Chapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains – Catherine Malabou

Part I ‘An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair’ - Solidarity and Plasticity

Chapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices – Thomas Telios

Chapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity – Petr Kouba

Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis – Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal

Chapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault – Tim Elmo Feiten

Chapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou – Arianne Conty

Part II‘The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature’ - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary Biology

Chapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearóid Brinn & Georgina Butterfield

Chapter 9 Mutual Aid Armature: Plasticity All the Way Down – Eugene Kuchinov

Chapter10 Solidarity Is Not Reciprocal Altruism – Jonas Faria Costa

Chapter 11 Selfish Genes, Evil Nature: The Christian Echoes in Neo-Atheism – Ole Martin Sandberg

Part III ‘At the End of the Day, It’s Just Us’ - The Actuality of Mutual Aid

Chapter 12 Plastic Encounters: COVID-19 and (De)Racialization in Canada – Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa

Chapter 13 Counterpublics of the Common: Feminist Solidarity Unchained – Ewa Majewska

Chapter 14 Prefigurative Biology: Mutual Aid, Social Reproduction and Plasticity – Dan Swain