![]() Nelson’s book is deliberately looking at practices of freedom that could seem more subtle than those invoked by directly political writers such as Graeber or Robin D. ![]() It is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.” Graeber’s imperative towards acting as if already free reverberates across the numerous subjects Nelson invokes (sex, art, drugs and climate change) in what is at once a hugely wide ranging and also remarkably consistent book asking what constantly acting towards a possible freedom, amid constraint and with care, might do to our way of looking at the world and making possible future action. The starting place and guiding principle for Nelson’s latest book is, perhaps unexpectedly to the many readers of her previous work of auto-theory The Argonauts, not from the world of queer theory or poetics but rather from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber who wrote, “revolutionary action is not a form of self sacrifice, a grim dedication to doing whatever it takes to achieve a future word of freedom. ![]() ![]() In On Freedom, Maggie Nelson shows how enlivening new ways of thinking can actually be. ![]()
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