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

Matthew Cole - AI Is Theft

If capital is rewriting the rules of work with AI, then workers must rewrite the terms of resistance.

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-property-data-theft-anthropic/

Remembering Alexander Rabinowitch

When I opened Facebook this morning, as I do every morning, I learned that Alexander Rabinowitch died at 91 years old. Rabinowitch was arguably one of the most important historians of the Russian Revolution. It's hard to state how much Rabinowitch's work influence our understanding of 1917. Before him, it was assumed that the Bolsheviks were a highly disciplined, unpopular political party that came to power through a coup. What Rabinowitch repeatedly showed in his four books on Revolution, the Bolsheviks had popular support, most importantly in factories in Petrograd and in other large cities and at the front. Lenin's slogans, particularly, "Peace, Land, Bread!" had mass support, and by October 1917, successfully rode a wave of revolution into power.

And now that Alexander Rabinowitch has left us, I figured I’d dig out my old interview with him from 2017, clean it up, and re-release it to commemorate the life and work of this scholarly giant.

https://www.patreon.com/euraknot/posts/remembering-161273546

Carlo Ginzburg on his Life’s Work and the Writing of History

In this discussion, Carlo Ginzburg, a widely admired and influential historian, reflected on his life’s work and his contributions to the field of history, including his pioneering work in microhistory and the history of mentalities in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mfwgd5tRzw&ra=m

Peter D. Thomas - New Orders: Hegemony as a Method of Political Work

This text proposes an understanding of hegemony not as a concept, theory or historical narrative, but as a distinctive method of political work. It thematises this strategic perspective in terms of four central dimensions of Gramsci’s political thought in the Prison Notebooks: the goal of constructing a new order, the nature of self-emancipatory politics as the production of historical progress, the method of leadership conceived as fragility and experimentation, and the organisational form of the party as a pedagogical laboratory. Taken in their productive dialectical interaction, these four perspectives enable us to restore political strategy to the centre of the notion of hegemony, and offer a sophisticated perspective well placed to dialogue with some of the central concerns of contemporary radical social and political movements.

Farewell to the great historian Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg, the renowned Italian historian whose works have been translated worldwide, has died in Bologna at the age of 87. The son of the Jewish anti-fascist intellectual Leone Ginzburg and the writer Natalia Levi (née Ginzburg), he taught modern history at the University of Bologna and subsequently at Harvard, Yale (New Haven), Princeton and the University of California, Los Angeles (where he also held a chair in the history of the Italian Renaissance). From 2006 to 2010, he taught the History of European Cultures at the Normale in Pisa.

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/farewell-to-the-great-historian-carlo-ginzburg-AIcC8fiD

David Waldstreicher - The Spirit of ’76

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by a few dozen men in Philadelphia, new forms of Douglass’s question cry out for an answer. How should we remember the American Revolution when millions march in the streets and shout “No Kings!”? When squads of masked thugs invade homes without warrant, kangaroo immigration “courts” deport hundreds of thousands without due process, and an executive agency buys up warehouses to use as internment camps? When agents of the state shoot and kill protesters but don’t come to trial, unlike the British soldiers who fired on demonstrators during the Boston Massacre? When the Supreme Court, invoking the “original public meaning” of the words of the king-dethroning revolutionaries, rubber-stamps absolute executive supremacy? When a Congress-spurning president, more callow and depraved than George III appeared in the propaganda of 1776, commands the largest military in the world to drop bombs and decapitate heads of state in furtherance of a rapacious empire, as the Patriots said the British had become?

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-spirit-of-76/