Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Roque elephant author Paul Heideman on Trumpism and the Republican Party

Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes at work for decades. Providing a new perspective on figures from Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush to the Koch brothers and Donald Trump, it shows that the party’s lurch to the far right was the product of a volatile mix of a disorganized party structure and a divided and fractious class of American business owners.

In this interview by Peter Lucas, author Paul Heideman explores how Republicans went from the party of business to the party of chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINuDZsIJIU

Cihan Tugal - The “bloody brilliant” sociologist’s unfinalized heresy: Resolving Michael Burawoy’s tensions to reconstruct the social sciences

Through workplace ethnographies on three continents, as well as methodological and theoretical interventions, Burawoy transformed the social sciences. In his last years, he wrote extensively on race and colonialism. He also encouraged his students to apply the lessons of his earlier work to labor in education. These strands of his scholarship sat uneasily alongside one another, and he did not develop an explicit framework to resolve the apparent contradictions between, and within, them. The unfinalized tensions in Burawoy’s late work lay the groundwork for a reconstructed scientific practice.

https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Sociologia/article/view/16044/13820

Liz Franczak - Conspiracy and Techno-Capitalism

We discuss conspiracy theory, Lacan’s psychoanalytic insights and the influence of the early blogosphere. Liz describes Big Tech's capture of the US state. We ask: is techno-capitalism a rogue AI retroactively assembling itself from the future? No, this will not be explained later.

0:00 Intro
0:37 Conspiracy & hyper-gambling
9:24 What is the “Tech Sector”?
15:07 Accelerationism
19:26 Capitalist realism vs folk politics
30:23 State capture
36:00 Tech exit vs national conservatism
43:36 Outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ2GKpVsjUU

Roberto J. González - The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants

Silicon Valley’s right-wing past, present and future

The Silicon Valley has thrown much of its support behind Trump for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions.

https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-rise-of-the-techno-tyrants

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Из «Революционного темперамента» Роберта Дарнтона

В начале 1781 года французский министр финансов Жак Неккер опубликовал невиданный по тем временам документ — отчет о государственных доходах и расходах. О том, что случилось дальше, читайте в отрывке из книги Роберта Дарнтона о Париже накануне Великой французской революции. 

https://gorky.media/fragments/uprazdnit-nenavistnuyu-gabel

Jussi Palmusaari - For Revolt: Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation

This striking interpretation of Rancière’s uncompromising view of emancipation draws on his Maoist commitments and invariably rational and Kantian-moralist basis. Tracing the logic of abstract and atemporal space in all of Rancière’s work, it stands in contrast to the prevailing tendency to emphasise his sensitivity to evolving historical forms and changing regimes of sensibility. Overturning the meaning of Rancière’s interest in the sensible makes the object of his thinking clear: a revolt against a reality structured according to ordered temporalities and forms of appearance. In making its case, For Revolt reconstructs Rancière’s relations to some of the crucial, yet unexplored, politico-historical frameworks of his thought, such as the Cultural-Revolutionary Maoism and the French Revolution, offering a fresh perspective on these revolutionary paradigms. Going against dominant views, this book argues for a fundamentally positive influence of Louis Althusser’s philosophy on Rancière’s thought and analyses his relation to Marx and Kant based on previously undiscussed early student work. Through a critical discussion of Rancière, For Revolt sheds light on the present predicament of emancipatory politics – its emphasis on the actualities of here and now and its difficulties in envisaging programmatic realisations of radically alternative futures.