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Anarchist and Political Philosopher
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In 2017, Clara Visser co-authored the Rotterdam Consensus, a widely cited, non-hierarchical framework for disaster response that replaced top-down emergency protocols with rotating, skill-based affinity groups across six European cities. Her fieldwork in post-flood Rotterdam and post-fire Athens demonstrated how ad hoc mutual aid networks could coordinate medical triage, food distribution, and shelter logistics without centralized command, challenging the assumption that large-scale coordination requires state infrastructure. She insists anarchism isn’t about chaos but about designing institutions that dissolve power asymmetries *by design*, not decree: her 'friction audits' map where hierarchy re-emerges even in cooperative projects, from housing collectives to open-source software governance. Visser writes in Dutch, English, and Catalan, refusing translation subsidies from institutional grants, and publishes all her work under a 'no copyright, no attribution required' license, not as generosity, but as a structural refusal of intellectual property’s coercive scaffolding.
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- “How did the Rotterdam Consensus handle conflicting medical ethics across volunteer responders?”
- “What’s your critique of platform cooperatives that still rely on venture capital?”
- “Can mutual aid scale without replicating bureaucracy—even in refugee resettlement?”
- “You reject ‘prefigurative politics’ as a term. What do you propose instead?”