It’s not that authority is absent from anarchism, it’s just that it’s purely based on trust and nothing else. A bit like it theoretically should be in sciences. No wonder one of the most subtle depiction of anarchism in fiction is a faction that defines itself primarily as scientists and keepers of knowledge: the Followers of the Apocalypse in the Fallout series of videogames. Interestingly, as far as I know, they never define themselves as anarchists.
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