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Integral Anarchism: Beauty, Geography, and
Becoming
“Let us become beautiful ourselves, and let our life
be beautiful!“ – Élisée Reclus
Anarchism is a beautiful enabler. As a political
praxis it allows us to embrace our capacity for living
now and doing for ourselves in this moment what we
would otherwise leave to authority. Strength is to be
found not in what is dreamed possible but as an
illumination of the powerful beauty we collectively
represent. Anarchism insists upon the development of
new relationships with our world and, crucially, with
each other. Recognizing such connection implies a
relational geography as an aesthetic realization that we
all matter, that we are all part of the beauty of
immanence. Within this recognition of our capacity for
the beautiful comes the seed of something new,
nourished by the possibilities of our desire for a better
world. A relational geography is consequently a way to
try to make sense of a world that is infinitely complex
and in an ever-changing process of becoming.
Geography’s recent reengagement with
anarchism brings us closer to the possibility of shaking
off the chains that fetter us to statist, capitalist, racist,
sexist, and imperialist ideas by maintaining that our
greatest resource is our bonds to one another. In
anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus’s notion of
‘universal geography’ we see an early iteration of such
a politics of possibility, which looks to connection, or
relationality, as its impetus. For Reclus, all people
should share the Earth as siblings by expanding our
circle of empathy and reorganizing the landscapes of
power though strengthened bonds of solidarity. So
rather than simply always becoming, for anarchists,
geography is about becoming beautiful.
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