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

Mathias Fuelling - Between Potatoes and Barley

An uncertain political pamphlet for uncertain times.

Anton Jager’s Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences (2026) is a strange book: too short to offend, too long to be pithy or aphoristic. The effect is to make it flat. Jäger is explosively erudite, yet this erudition leads to banal ends, loud bangs that come to small talk. He is a superstar on the platform formerly known as Twitter, and the book captures Jäger’s charisma within a particular online socialist milieu the wide-ranging references, close attunement to political events in Europe, and a gift for the incisive turn of phrase. Jäger’s insights are often provocative and penetrating, drawing on a wealth of comparative knowledge and a willingness to take intellectual risks, but they are left undeveloped, discarded as soon as they are expressed.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hyperpolitics-anton-jager-extreme-politicization-without-political-consequences/

Чартере Уинн - Умеренный большевик Михаил Томский

Опираясь на российские и британские архивы и мощную базу вторичных источников, Чартере Уинн предлагает новые интерпретации истории советских профсоюзов и политики Коммунистической партии в 1920-х годах. В центре его монографии — фигура Михаила Томского, жизненный и политический путь которого автор прослеживает от начала политической активности в дореволюционной заводской среде и до последнего — ставшего фатальным — конфликта со Сталиным по поводу коллективизации.

T. J. Demos - Populism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Fascism

Techno-populism’s bid for hegemony perhaps the dominant expression of contemporary populism rests on what might be called a boomer-doomer dialectic. Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung’s video Literally No Place(2023) takes this dyad as its premise.Over an eighteen-minute runtime, the piece stages the competing positions of figures such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Oxford catastrophist Nick Bostrom. The video digitally reprocesses the voices of these figures into feminized, queer tonalities in a rather hilarious gender-bending denaturalization that riffs against the transhumanist, post-natural imaginaries the video also criticizes. In so doing, the work explores and lampoons the ongoing “AI wars” that animate contemporary debates around artificial general intelligence: on one side, utopian promises of fully automated luxury communism; on the other, apocalyptic fears of extinction-level catastrophe.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/165/6776923/populism-or-the-cultural-logic-of-late-fascism

Gil Durán - The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance. When Silicon Valley says it is ‘‘moving fast and breaking things,’’ the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.

Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Durán traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. He introduces its modern apostles Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, and Elon Musk and shows how the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the algorithmic propaganda of social media. The Nerd Reich explains the origins, strategies, and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy for the first time. From San Francisco’s weaponized elections and secret billionaire projects to the White House, Durán exposes how the world’s richest men are building a new political order.

The Nerd Reich is more than a hidden history, it’s an urgent warning: democracy is being dismantled not by coups or tanks, but by code, capital, and the illusion of innovation. Durán insists there is still time to fight back if we act now.