Anarchy of the Archipelicans

<p>In this episode we talk about anarchy. Through the scholarship of Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis, we explore the longer histories of anarchy in South East Asia. Long histories of refusal, separation and difference emerge across the archipelago in response to various forms of centralised authority. History shows anarchy always wins. Instead of anarchy coming at the end of “civilisation,” it can be thought of as the start of experimentation in different communal organisation. We discuss how this refusal is always also a refusal of centralised gender and sexuality. We descend into the problematics of classification and dive into the violence at the centre of white nationalism as productive of difference where there is none. Then Melletios gets angry on a bus, and Tim finds a gun hilarious. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.akpress.org/anarchy-in-alifuru.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Bima Satria Putra, <em>Anarchy in Alifuru</em>, 2025</a></p><p><a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/164/6776903/fire-tribes-and-stateless-worlds-a-conversation" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis, <em>Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation</em>, e-flux, 2026</a></p><p><a href="https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12562&menu=0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dagmar Herzog, <em>The New Fascist Body,</em> 2025</a></p><p><a href="https://davidgraeber.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">David Graeber and David Wengrow, <em>The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, </em>2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1314" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., <em>The Wages of Dreamwork Class Composition &amp; the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor.</em> Minor Compositions, 2024</a></p><p><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hakim Bey<em>T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone</em> , 1991</a></p>