Roger Alan Deacon - Fabricating Foucault: rationalising the management of individuals
Fabricating Foucault explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. It addresses the following questions: Can the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change be defended in the light of Foucault’s critique? How might genealogy rewrite the history of truth when truth structures the very limits of our knowledge? Is it possible to rethink relations of power as strategies of governance which depend on the existence of free subjects capable of resistance? And what is the relationship between the manufacture of subjectivity and Foucault’s call to engage in aesthetic stylistic experimentation upon ourselves?
Что может рассказать одна загадочная картина о том, как мы мыслим прошлое? В книге «В складках времени. Разговоры об истории» французский историк Патрик Бушрон отталкивается от «Трех философов» Джорджоне, чтобы порассуждать о времени, политике, интерпретации и ремесле историка.
В новом выпуске подкаста «Умные книги» говорим с Верой Мильчиной, историком русско-французских культурных связей и переводчицей книги, о том, почему эта небольшая монография оказывается такой увлекательной и спорной. Разговор движется от загадок Джорджоне к роли Бушрона во французской интеллектуальной культуре, от Франциска Ассизского и искусства читать исторический источник — к спору древних и новых, периодизации истории и вопросу о том, где именно в «складках времени» прячется политическое.
Таймкоды:
0:20 — Начало подкаста
0:50 — О чем книга и кому она будет интересна
11:25 — Апология Бушрона от Михаила Велижева
14:00 — Бушрон о Фоме Сплитском и Франциске Ассизком
21:40 — Портрет возлюбленной как историческая проблема
27:47 — Хронология как рамка интерпретации
33:00 — О споре о древних и новых
38:51 — Тимур Атнашев о своем восприятии книги
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - The Thinking Machine: Response to Yuk Hui
Since Luther’s celebration of the printing press as an instrument of divine grace, technology has appeared not merely as a collection of useful devices but as a force that transforms the conditions under which truth, knowledge, and authority are produced. With Descartes, the machine became more than an external instrument: It became a model of the living body. Animals and bodily functions could be described as automata governed by mechanical laws, while thought was reserved for the immaterial mind. The machine thus became a limiting figure through which philosophy distinguished matter from mind, determination from freedom, and automatic operation from rational thought.
Against this background, Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine asks whether a machine can know, judge, act morally, and contribute to the making of peace. By transposing Kant’s fundamental questions from the human subject to the machine, Hui seeks a critical philosophy adequate to artificial intelligence. The ambition is compelling. However, its central difficulty lies in the concept of the machine on which it rests.
В конституционной идее плебисцитарного органа и выборов правителя сходились традиции самых разных групп, вовлеченных в восстание: память о московских Земских соборах и Уложенной комиссии 1767–1768 годов (в пугачевском войске воевали несколько ее депутатов) встречалась с обыкновениями
крестьянского мира, яицких казаков и народов Степи. Башкирские источники ясно говорят о плебисцитарных истоках бунта. Протесты башкир начинались с общих собраний – йыйынов. Записанная в XIX веке башкирская песня о Салавате Юлаеве, предводителе присоединившихся к Пугачеву башкир, представляла его харизматическим плебисцитарным вождем
Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible?
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private Power and Democracy's Decline: How to Make Capitalism Support Democracy (MIT Press, 2026). After its high-water mark several decades ago, democracy's status continues to slide globally. Capitalism and democracy, which once seemed to complement each other, now appear at odds. Free-market policies and monopolistic technologies have enriched many while driving inequalities that harm workers. Many have opined on how to fix the political and economic problems of our day, from an embrace of radical libertarian policy to socialist ownership of the means of production. Mordecai Kurz's extensive study of capitalism and democracy charts a path for balancing economic and political freedom. Since the days of Adam Smith, technology has changed rapidly, necessitating new formulations that take into account the private power centers that exercise control much like monarchies did in the Age of Enlightenment. Despite the imbalance, capitalism still remains a driver of technological progress and innovation. How can we make both capitalism and democracy work for the good of everyone?