Uri Gordon’s description of contemporary anarchism

By anarchism, I mean primarily what is by now a relatively well-defined
political culture at work within sections of the global justice movement, primarily in Europe and North America. This political culture, or set of common orientations towards political action and speech, manifests itself in the combination of: (a) shared forms of organisation (networked, decentralised, horizontal, consensus-based); (b) a shared repertoire of political expression (direct action, constructing alternatives, community outreach, confrontation); (c) a shared political language, including a distinct commitment to resisting all forms of domination, from which is derived resistance to capitalism, the state, patriarchy, and so on; (d) shared narratives and mythologies invoking the Zapatista uprising, the Seattle protests, etc.; and (e) shared features of dress, music, and diet, primarily those associated with the punk and hippie subcultures. Historically speaking, contemporary anarchism is largely discontinuous with the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century workers’ and peasants’ movements bearing the same name. It is a political culture that has fused in the intersection of other movements such as radical ecology, feminism, black and indigenous liberation, anti-nuclear, anticapitalist, and anti-war movements. Many people associated with this political culture would prefer to call themselves anti-authoritarian or autonomous.

Uri Gordon, “Practising Anarchist Theory: Towards a Participatory Political Philosophy,” in Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigation // Collective Theorization, Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber, eds. (AK Press), pp. 276-7 (available here).