What is anarchy?

The anarchy of the Internet may be daunting for the neophyte, but it differs little from the bibliographical chaos that is the result of five and a half centuries of the printing press. —Fred Lerner, The Story of Libraries, (1945) 1998; Anarchy reigned in the empire's remote provinces. read more

Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy. read more

lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination: the anarchy of his rebellious teenage years. confusion and disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith. It was impossible to find the book I was looking for in the anarchy of his bookshelves. read more