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

Жэнь Сюэфэй - Урбанизация по-китайски
 
В современном Китае насчитывается более 125 городов с населением свыше миллиона человек. Беспрецедентный их рост представляет собой важнейшее явление для исследований глобализации и трансформации Китая. В этой книге на основе изучения пяти ключевых тем - управления, миграции, ландшафта, неравенства и культурной экономики - рассматривается прошлое, настоящее и будущее китайской урбанизации. 

Leah Litman - Who Is Supreme, the People or the Court?

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself.

Bowie and Renan suggest that the Left did not realize that the same right-wing legal movement that now dominates the Supreme Court was willing to accept a loss on whether the court would have the power to invalidate a federal abortion restriction in order to solidify their position against an even bigger prize the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that at least attempted to make the country a multiracial democracy. Earlier this term, the right-wing legal movement claimed that “prize” when the Supreme Court completed its demolition of the Voting Rights Act nullifying the last major provision that had remained in the law after the court previously dismantled the other key provision more than a decade ago.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/supremacy-court-replaced-goverment-bowie-renan-judicial-review/

Хлоя Дрийе - Кино, нация, империя. Узбекистан, 1919 - 1937
 
Основываясь на исследованиях, проведенных в узбекских и российских государственных архивах, и на глубоком анализе четырнадцати полнометражных фильмов, Хлоя Дрийе описывает дискуссии о процессах государственного и национального строительства Узбекистана, а также о возникновении национализма в целом. Книга «Кино, нация, империя. Узбекистан, 1919 - 1937» помогает нам понять, как Центральная Азия, входившая в состав Российской империи, сначала была деколонизирована, а затем вновь оказалась под давлением Москвы.

Catherine Liu - Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

David Golumbia - Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings

In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good.

Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, Cyberlibertarianism details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. As he unpacks our naively utopian conception of the digital world, Golumbia highlights technology’s role in the advancement of hyperindividualist and antigovernment agendas, demonstrating how Silicon Valley corporations and right-wing economists; antiestablishment figures such as Julian Assange, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Edward Snowden, and Mark Zuckerberg; and seemingly positive voices such as John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wikipedia all have worked to hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation.

Drawing from a wide range of thought in digital theory, economics, law, and political philosophy as well as detailed research and Golumbia’s own experience as a software developer, Cyberlibertarianism serves as a clarion call to reevaluate the fraught politics of the internet. In the hope of providing a way of working toward a more genuinely democratic and egalitarian future for digital technology, this magisterial work insists that we must first understand the veiled dogmas from which it has been constructed.