Emma Goldman stands as a foundational figure in anarchist political thought, embodying a radical reimagining of freedom, political activism, and the ethical conditions and possibilities of collective life. Living My Life provides not only a vivid autobiographical account but also a key primary source for examining the entanglements of law, dissent, and political imagination. This seminar draws on Goldman’s narrative to explore the various manifestations of law as a field of antagonism and imagination, and of sex as an object of moral and material investment.

Commentary by: Andrej Grubačić

_{The seminars will take place on Zoom. Participation is free, but advance registration is required. Upon registration, participants will be provided with materials for the discussion.}
 

Notas biográficas

Elena Loizidou is Professor of Law and Political Theory at the School of Law, Birkbeck College (University of London). Her publications focus, among other topics, on ethics, law and politics (2007; 2024; 2025), law and biopolitics (2021), feminist legal utopias (2022), and anarchist legal thought (2023). She is the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities (Birkbeck), the reviews editor of the journal Law & Critique, and an elected member of the organising committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Elena Loizidou is also an international consultant for the research project Lawcus.

Andrej Grubačić is the Editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (UC Press, 2016), co-authored with Denis O'Hearn, which received the 2017 American Sociological Association Prize for Distinguished Scholarship. He is also the author of Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia (PM Press, 2010).

The “Law and Books” series is organised by Ana Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro, and takes place within the scope of the LAWCUS project – reference 2023.12608.PEX, funded by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.12608.PEX