Essay #72: Elena Pagani, ‘Interpersonal Freedom as Pluralist Radical Horizontality’

In this essay, Elena Pagani presents theorising and practices of freedom as interpersonal and intersubjective. She does this through the conceptions of agonistic self-creation and agonistic empathy in conversation with empirical findings from a militant research of radical worker co-operatives in Greece. Her presentation invites us to imagine and prefigure an anarchist utopia where the notion of power would be redundant (without 'archy') in the now, or otherwise, how we could potentially get rid of informal hierarchies. Elena Pagani is an activist and currently a Lecturer in Organisation Behaviour at the University for the Creative Arts. Her doctoral thesis was Organising Equal Freedom: from antagonism to agonism. Anarchist Essays is brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group and the journal Anarchist Studies. Follow us on Twitter @arglboro. Our music comes from Them'uns (featuring Yous'uns). Artwork by Sam G.