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

Клемперер В. Cвидетeльствовать до кoнца: Из дневников 1933-1945

Дневники В. Клемперера периода нацистской диктатуры 1933–1945 гг., фактически стали хроникой Третьего рейха. Это взгляд «изнутри» на жизнь немецкого общества под властью нацистов. Филолог Виктор Клемперер, немецкий еврей, женатый на немке, перенес все тяготы и унижения режима, но избежал уничтожения. День за днем Клемперер вел дневник, подробно описывая все происходившие с ним и вокруг него события, постепенно погружавшие в атмосферу всепоглощающего страха и безысходности все еврейское население Германии: страха перед гестапо, обысками, голодом, бомбежками; страха перед депортациями, часто приводившего людей к добровольному уходу из жизни.

Maurice Godelier - Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest

Exploring the role of the incest prohibition in human societies
What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called blended families but which also exist in many other societies?

This prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world. But where does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains?

World-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity. It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.

Arka Chattopadhyay - Alain Badiou and the Dialectic of the Present

This article will explore Alain Badiou’s philosophy of time to show what role time plays in his philosophy of subjectivity, event and truth. As against the critical consensus that Badiou either denies temporality a valuable presence in his system of thought or the position that Badiou loses time in eternity, the article will argue that Badiou’s late work, especially his 2001-2004 seminar, Images of the Present Time (2014, 2023) and the third and final instalment of the being and event project, The Immanence of Truths (2018, 2022) foregrounds the political temporality of the event as commitment and construction. In this this dialectical thesis on time, the political task of philosophy is to construct a dialectical present from a preset-less and world-less time. Badiou’s temporal dialectic consists of pushing the present away from the repetition of the past and toward a projection that endears it to the future. As this article demonstrates, ‘permeability’ and ‘inter-temporality’ emerge as key takeaway concepts from Badiou’s dialectical thinking on time that treats evental subjective truths as both temporal and eternal, thus revealing eternity to be an extension and not a negation of temporality. In the process, the article also addresses the crucial question about locating Badiou’s idea of the event in historical time or better still a time that must be constructed at a distance from history.

https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2026-22-01/arka-chattopadhyay.pd

Ната Волкова - Оставаясь со ржавчиной

О книге «Детройтская история. Становление неформальных отношений собственности в депрессивном городе»

Книга антрополога Клэр Херберт о Детройте — лиричное и одновременно аналитически точное исследование того, как в руинированном городе пересобирается социальный порядок в ситуации, когда государственные ресурсы поддержки исчерпаны.

https://gorky.media/reviews/ostavayas-so-rzhavchinoi

The Samadov Case

During and after the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a group of public activists expressed anti-war views and were met with backlash from the ruling elite in Azerbaijan. The government labeled the position of peace activists as hostile and pursued them. After the arrests of journalists and socio-political activists began at the end of 2023, the government started portraying peace activists as spies and agents to justify the crackdown and strengthen its narrative that these individuals were agents of foreign states. One such public activist was Bahruz Samadov, a PhD student at Charles University in Prague. He was arrested on charges of treason, and other individuals were also summoned for investigation by the State Security Service. The investigation and trial concluded within 10 months a fast pace by Azerbaijani standards. On June 23, 2025, the Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced Samadov to 15 years in prison under Article 274 of the Criminal Code for treason. In this article, we aim to demonstrate that the court verdict is unlawful, baseless, and unjust. First, we will interpret the crime of treason in Azerbaijan, and in the following sections, we will describe the problems in the verdict in the context of evidentiary standards and the credibility of the evidence.

Free Bahruz Campaign

https://freebahruzcampaign.org/news

https://bakuresearchinstitute.org/en/the-samadov-case/

Frank Ruda - Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy: Badiou and Psychoanalysis

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h7pNabnLcQI