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

Nicholas Carr - Can the Internet Be Saved?

After troubleshooting Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir, it becomes clear that the internet’s flaws were there from the start.

Not all technologies improve people’s lives. Just as Berners-Lee’s now-omnipresent web shapes industries and markets, it molds its users’ thoughts, perceptions, and relationships. As we’re slowly coming to understand, human beings did not evolve to be virtual creatures in a computer-generated world. The internet operates at a scale and speed that conflict with the brain’s deliberate pace of thought, the intellect’s slow accumulation of knowledge, and the psyche’s limited capacity for stimulation and social exchange. To be able to do anything and be anywhere at any moment seems liberating for a while, but it ends in a blurred and chaotic existence, the physical world’s familiar, steadying divisions of space and time dissolving in endless torrents of data. It’s an existence that may be vivifying to certain software programmers Tim, slow down! but for the rest of us, the virtual world’s hyperkinetic superabundance ends up feeling like emptiness: a very, very busy void. We may be drawn to that void by our native attraction to information, novelty, and spectacle, but we’ll never make a home there.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tim-berners-lee-unfinished-story-world-wide-web/

Теодор Адорно - Minima moralia

Впервые на русском языке выходит книга выдающегося немецкого мыслителя XX века Теодора Адорно (1903-1969), написанная им в эмиграции во время Второй мировой войны и в первые годы после ее окончания. Озаглавленная по аналогии с «Большой этикой» («Magna moralia») Аристотеля, эта книга представляет собой отнюдь не систематический философский труд, а коллекцию острокритических фрагментов, как содержание, так и форма которых отражают неутешительный взгляд Адорно на позднекапиталистическое общество, в котором человеческий опыт дробится, рассыпается и теряет всякие ориентиры. Выходом из этого положения должно быть, по мысли автора, интеллектуальное сопротивление — как нацизму, так и капиталистической культурной индустрии.

С.Н. Шкель - Скованные одной сетью. Выборы, этнический фактор и патрональная политика в регионах России

Книга посвящена анализу выборов в современной России с фокусом на электоральные процессы в этнических республиках. Внимание на эти регионы объясняется их важностью для устойчивости текущего политического режима в России. В книге показано, что анатомия политической лояльности этнических республик многослойна и обуславливается не одним, а целой совокупностью факторов. Политические параметры республик в виде структуры региональных элит и выбранной ими стратегии в ответ на политику федерального центра являются наиболее важными факторами, объясняющими вариацию эффекта централизации в разных российских регионах.

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by G. Gadoffre, A. Lichnerowicz and F. Perroux, and attended by S. Bachelard, P. Bourdieu, G. Canguilhem, M. Foucault, A. Martinet, J. Monod, C. Ramnoux, M. Serres, G. Simondon and R. Thom

Structure et dynamique des systèmes includes a summary of the 1970 event on structuralism, made by André Malan, but not most of the papers from that event. Malan’s summary gives the title “Sciences, Structures, Structuralisme”. There are also some papers which may be from the event in the volume, notably ones from André Martinet and René Thom. Malan however gives a good survey of what happened. He summarises the way structure is understood by mathematicians, physical scientists, and biologists, based on presentations at the event, before summarising how it is understood across the exact sciences. He then moves to the way that the history of sciences might complicate the present-day understandings being presented. He then shifts to ‘structuralism’ in the human sciences, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, economics, mythology, and modern literature.

https://progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/01/a-1970-french-interdisciplinary-seminar-on-structuralism-organised-by-gilbert-gadoffre-andre-lichnerowicz-and-francois-perroux-and-attended-by-suzanne-bachelard-pierre-bourdieu-georges-canguilhem/

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Pierre Victor - It is Right to Rebel

The early 1970s were a crucial period in the political and intellectual climate of France. The newspaper Libération was founded in the wake of the protest movements of 1968, and the country was gripped by industrial, political and civil unrest on a huge scale. Behind all this were deep debates about the nature and justification of revolt, class conflict and consciousness, and the nature of what it meant to be free. It is Right to Rebel, available in English for the first time with a new Preface by Philippe Gavi, is a fascinating discussion between three thinkers about this extraordinary period. The book comprises extensive conversations between the philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, journalist and co-founder of Libération Philippe Gavi, and political radical and Maoist Pierre Victor, all conducted between 1972 and 1974. In these conversations Sartre works out his relation between socialism and freedom, providing fascinating background to his tortured relationship with the French Communist Party. Together with his interlocutors they explore and debate what should be the basis of ethics, the nature of oppression and racism, including immigration, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Chilean military coup in 1973 and more. A recurring theme is their exploration of two major questions: what should ethics be based on, and what makes for a revolutionary?

Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited

In this episode, we revisit Jean Baudrillard’s The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a text that diagnosed the emergence of war as media event, non-event, and managed spectacle. Joining us is friend and returning guest Cameron Carsten, a graduate student in continental philosophy whose work explores the state, power, and the production of reality across Baudrillard and Deleuze. Rather than treating Baudrillard’s claims as prophetic or obsolete, the conversation puts them to work against the present testing the fate of hyperreality in the age of Trump, AI-mediated images, and escalating political violence. What emerges is a question that now presses harder than ever: has the simulacrum collapsed, or has the real returned with a vengeance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evzcrlxGk3Q