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This thesis is a political manifesto that seeks to address the current chaotic and undesrable politcal environment on the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen (Anarchy City). Acknowledging that: -Anarchy City has evolved from political borders whose purpose was to create division. -Anarchy City possesses width and depth, is a 3-dimensional space of physical presence. -Anarchy City is a "zone of exception" independent from the entities it sets out to separate. -Anarchy City is anarchic, free of formal rules and regulations and thus free for interpretation. -Anarchy City is deliberately distinguished from, and openly challenges, the existing political and social norms. -Anarchy City promotes unrestricted possibilites of exchange both in material and intellectual forms as the apparatus for the dissolution of divison. -Anarchy City advocates a perpetual "in-between status" that becomes so substantial as to be able to register its new identity. This thesis proposes a reconceptualizing of Anarchy City as a place for the progressive rethinking of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen hinterland.

ln Design Anarchy, Kalle Lasn advocates that Design needs a fresh start in order to find again its meaning and its purpose. He puts forward a new approach to design, an anarchistic one: Design Anarchists are free artists, mad ones, incorrigible and environmenIalists, always anxious to serve the social, environmental and cultural interests, and only when suitable, the political and economic interests as well, When introducing Anarchist Design, it's not appropriate to assume that the author is referring to design as no| hav ing any order, rules or paradigms, but rather to a new concept oI design, lree trom coercion, predefined hierarchies and power structures and, above all. free from unreasonable capitalism and consumerism.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Preface -- I Anarchy and the State -- II The Theory of Spontaneous Order -- III The Dissolution of Leadership -- IV Harmony Through Complexity -- V Topless Federations -- VI Who Is to Plan? -- VII We House, You Are Housed, They Are Homeless -- VIII Open and Closed Families -- IX Schools No Longer -- X Play as an Anarchist Parable -- XI A Self-Employed Society -- XII The Breakdown of Welfare -- XIII How Deviant Dare You Get? -- XIV Anarchy and a Plausible Future -- Notes -- Index.

Can anarchy be efficient? This paper argues that for reasons of efficiency, rational, wealth-maximizing agents may actually choose statelessness over government in some cases. Where markets are sufficiently thin or where government is prohibitively costly, anarchy is the efficient mode of social organization. If total social wealth under conditions of relatively lower levels of trade is not substantially smaller than it is under conditions of relatively higher levels of trade, the cost of government may exceed the social benefits it provides. Likewise, if the cost of a state is sufficiently large, even substantial differences in social wealth under these two scenarios may prove too small to justify the formation of government from a cost-benefit perspective. The framework I provide explains the persistence of anarchy in two major areas where we tend to observe it: among primitive societies and at the global level. (JEL P48). Adapted from the source document.

The concept of anarchy is seen as the cardinal organizing category of the discipline of International Relations (IR), which differentiates it from cognate disciplines such as Political Science or Political Philosophy. This entry provides an analytical review of the scholarly literature on anarchy in IR, on two levels—conceptual and theoretical. First, it distinguishes three senses of the concept of anarchy: (1) lack of a common superior in an interaction domain; (2) chaos or disorder; and (3) horizontal relation between nominally equal entities, sovereign states. The first and the third senses of "anarchy"' are central to IR. Second, it considers three broad families of IR theory where anarchy figures as a focal assumption—(1) realism and neorealism; (2) English School theory (international society approach); and (3) Kant's republican peace. Despite normative and conceptual differences otherwise, all three bodies of theory are ultimately based on Hobbes's argument for a "state of nature." The discussion concludes with a summary of the key challenges to the discourse of international anarchy posed by the methodology of economics and economics-based theories which favor the alternative discourse of global hierarchy.

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The ups and downs of the anarchist movement during the last century is discussed in this introduction to anarchist thought. Of all political views anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than 30 years, in more than 30 books, Colin Ward has been patiently explaining anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change-as well as celebrating unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. In this discussion with David Goodway, the many famous characters who were anarchists, or associated with the movement, are explored, including Her