Life against power:

anarchism, communities and indistinction in human-animal relations

Abstract

This article aims to establish a dialogue between Vanessa Calarco’s notions of “comunity” and the concept of “indistinction”, employed by the philosopher Mathew Calarco, with the anarchist critique of power relations in western societies, and its mechanisms of biopolitical control on various forms of life, and therefore separates ontologically the mankind from animality bias domination and violence. In this sense, as Calarco warns us, the indistinction operates under the perpective that denies hierarchies and binary constructions wich reduce ontologically animals to reified beings. Similarly, Lemm invites us to think about new living potencialities in communities, in which life itself and not language become the key conection between relations and interactions. In this way, this article proposes an anarchist reflection sensible to ideological deconstruction of antropocentrical worldviews.