Anarchie, institutions et singularités. Esquisse d’une discussion entre Marc Richir et Frédéric Lordon

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is to highlight the originality and actuality of Marc Richir’s phenomenological anarchism, based on a discussion with Frédéric Lordon’s “theory of the an­archic condition”. Four general points of similarity emerge in the way they characterize the anarchic register in its relationship to institutions. Against this common background, we will set out the essential differences between the two authors, which concern above all the place given to singularities and which result from their own perspective, that of a ‘non-standard’ phenome­nology (Richir) or that of a ‘structuralism of passions’ (Lordon). Nevertheless, beyond these differences, their projects converge on the need for a ‘critical axiology’ of institutions, which is ultimately what makes anarchist thinking so fruitful.