Anarchism & a paradoxical agon

[Terrance]

The tension between these hopes and dangers in Pynchon's
assessment of anarchism are never resolved: the hope that
anarchism may deliver us from a world feeding itself on its
own destruction is tethered to a persistent feeling that the
very vigilance anarchist practice requires may at any moment
capitulate to institutionalized patterns of control and
domination. The drive toward anarchism may lead us to a more
humane realm unfettered by the burden of history, but to
imagine the possibilities of non-hierarchical configurations
of truly free social relations is also to confront the
possibility of horrific chaos and terrifying vulnerability.  

"This Network of All Plots May Yet Carry Him to Freedom:
Thomas Pynchon and the Political Philosophy of Anarchism"

Graham Benton


A tension never resolved? A paradoxical Agon?