Zachary Woodman is a Master of Philosophy student at Western Michigan University, a market anarchist, and the host of the Center For a Stateless Society’s Mutual Exchange Radio podcast. His research interests include political philosophy, meta-ethics, philosophy of social science, and decision theory. He’s particularly interested in the intersections of anarchist and liberal political theory, the legitimacy of political authority, and the practical implications of philosophical anarchism. In this interview, we discussed why markets matter, democracy, borders, nationalism, Mutual Exchange Radio ..read more

In this Non Serviam Clips! episode, we take it back to the start with an excerpt from one of our favorite conversations thus far. In 2017 we sat down for a conversation with author, activist, and all-around solid human, scott crow. scott has been forging ahead for decades. He is a founder of “Common Ground Collective”, and Co-Producer of “Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation”; and he’s organized with everyone from Earth First!, to Anti-Racist Action, and The I.W.W. In this Clip, scott talks about the difference he sees between Anarchy and Anarchism. Hope this sets your ..read more

Emmi Bevensee is an anarchist, antifascist, and disinformation researcher. They’re Senior fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society, a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right, a Mozilla Open Web Fellow, and Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona. Emmi values empathy and freedom and uses their data science chops to help movements and social justice organizations shine. Their written work has appeared at The Independent, Bellingcat, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and more. In this episode, we discuss borders, anti-fascism, disinformation, emotio ..read more

On November 22nd and 23rd of 2019, we filmed a two-day event called Rojava Strong, which included a host of guest speakers, live music, a Kurdish buffet, tabled literature, a silent auction, documentary screenings, live paintings, and a rally. The goal was to raise awareness of Rojava and to protest against the violence and aggression committed by Turkey. The Guest speakers spoke about 1) the people, culture, and history of Rojava, 2) Democratic Confederalism and it’s commitment to gender equality, participatory democracy, and ecological sustainability, and 3) its imminent threat under i ..read more

Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society and holds the Center’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. Formerly a mutualist/individualist anarchist, he now identifies as an anarchist without adjectives. In addition to the classical individualists, he is influenced heavily by theorists of post-capitalism and commons-based peer production, Elinor Ostrom’s natural resource governance theory, and autonomist Marxism. His written work includes Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Over ..read more

Dr. Hejar Oncel earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He is a co-founder and board member of the Kurdish American Foundation of Houston and was born and raised in Northern Kurdistan where he grew up in a politically active environment that gave him a first hand experience of the evolution of the Kurdish liberation movement. We spoke about what it was like growing up in Rojava, the geopolitics of the area, war, libertarian socialism, anarchism, and more ..read more

Crispin Sartwell is a professor of philosophy at Dickinson College. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland, a Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Crispin is an individualist anarchist and political philosopher, with significant interests in Analytic Philosophy, Aesthetics and Theory of Knowledge. He has extensive and professional experience in journalism & music criticism, and has written and published around 20 books. In this episode, Crispin and I discuss why common justifications for state power fail, the role ..read more

Lucy Steigerwald is a libertarian anarchist and journalist who is a contributing editor at antiwar.com. She has a blog called the Stag Blog and her articles have appeared at Playboy, Vice, Reason, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Washington Post, The daily beast, and more. For this episode we discuss her work, journalism, libertarianism, right-wing political correctness, Trump, police brutality, immigration, and more. Follow Lucy – https://twitter.com/LucyStag Support Lucy – https://www.patreon.com/lucystag Support the show – https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Listen on SoundCloud – htt ..read more

Jahed is an anarchist from Portland who went to the University of Illinois to get his Masters of Science in Biophysics in 2009. He’s a former biophysicist-turned-internet-poker-pro-turned-data-analyst-then-UX-designer-and-finally-product-manager. He has a newsletter called Against Utopia that focusses on political science, philosophy, and science movements, based around anarchism, knowledge, and power. In this episode we discuss epistemological anarchism, the history of depression, problems with the medical industry, and radical new ways to approach health, building resilience, and expanding f ..read more

For this installment, I spoke with Jack Shimek, a self described Agorist who has been doing activism in the left libertarian world for decades. He organizes a biannual event called Alternative Exposition, or Alt Expo for short, which hosts a variety of speakers interested in creating non-coercive alternative institutions in all areas of life. He was a friend of the late Samuel Edward Konkin III and has a long history of involvement within the new libertarian movement. We discuss agorism, the history of american libertarianism, and the many projects Jack is involved with. Follow the Alternative ..read more