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

Adrienne Lynne Massanari - Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right

How play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. From #Gamergate to the ongoing Big Lie, the far right has gone mainstream. In Gaming Democracy , Adrienne Massanari tracks the flames of toxicity found in the far right and “alt-right” movements as they increasingly take up oxygen in American and global society. In this pathbreaking contribution to the fields of internet studies, game studies, and gender studies, Massanari argues that Silicon Valley’s emphasis on meritocracy and free speech absolutism has driven this rightward slide. These ideologies have been coded into social media spaces that implicitly silence marginalized communities and subject them to rampant abuse by groups that have learned to “game” the ecology of platforms, algorithms, and attention economies.

«Философия перестала бы быть самой собой, если бы она потеряла из виду „целое“.»

Это один из тех ныне живущих философов, к которым прислушиваются чаще всего, но одновременно и один из самых трудных для чтения: в 92 года Юрген Хабермас дал интервью нашей немецкой редакции, которое оказалось необычайно доступным. В связи с выходом первого тома его Истории философии он рассказывает о своём жизненном пути, посвящённом демократическому идеалу, и о философском проекте столь же решительном, сколь и амбициозном: сохранить публичное использование разума.

В Германии его называют «Гегелем Федеративной Республики». Юрген Хабермас действительно фигура монументального интеллектуального масштаба. Он принадлежит к числу самых уважаемых современных философов — пусть и не обязательно самых читаемых. Родившийся в 1929 году, он стал мыслителем эпохи послевоенного восстановления и остаётся наследником двойной традиции мысли: Франкфуртской школы и теории языка.

От первой он унаследовал «критическую теорию» капиталистического общества, которую разрабатывал в Институте социальных исследований во Франкфурте-на-Майне вместе со своими старшими коллегами и наставниками — Максом Хоркхаймером, Теодором В. Адорно и Гербертом Маркузе. Вдохновлённая Марксом, эта теория вступает в диалог с философией Просвещения, особенно с философией Канта.

https://telegra.ph/Filosofiya-perestala-by-byt-samoj-soboj-esli-by-ona-poteryala-iz-vidu-celoe-03-14

E. Frantz, A. Kendall-Taylor, J. Wright - The Origins of Elected Strongmen: How Personalist Parties Destroy Democracy from Within

Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform. Using original data capturing levels of personalism in the parties of democratically elected leaders from 1991 to 2020, The Origins of Elected Strongmen shows that the rise of personalist parties around the globe is facilitating the decline of democracy. Personalist parties lack both the incentive and capacity to push back against a leader's efforts to expand executive power. As such, leaders backed by personalist parties are more likely to succeed in their efforts to dismantle institutional constraints on their rule. Such attacks on state institutions, in turn, reverberate throughout society, deepening political polarization and weakening supporters' commitment to democratic norms of behaviour. In these ways, ruling party personalism erodes horizontal and vertical constraints on a leader, ultimately degrading democracy and raising the risk of democratic failure.

Умер философ и социолог Юрген Хабермас

Немецкий философ и социолог Юрген Хабермас умер в городе Штарнберг в Баварии. Ему было 95 лет. Об этом сообщило издательство Suhrkamp Verlag.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2026/03/12/1182877-yurgen-habermas

Samuel Fury, Childs Daly - Big Men and Little People

Two recent books on Idi Amin’s Uganda present an African mirror for Trump’s United States to see itself.

The best historical analogue for Donald Trump probably isn’t an American. It also isn’t one of the great villains of 20th-century Europe, despite a long and tired debate about his relationship to fascism. Rather, Trump’s most obvious predecessor comes from one of the “shithole countries” in Africa he disdains: General Idi Amin, the autocrat who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979. “It is not only the braggadocio, the self-regard, the love for military ceremony,” historian Derek R. Peterson writes in A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda (2025); it’s also the cruelly funny rhetoric, the demonization of immigrants and outsiders, and the political chaos that comes from constantly hounding your rivals and betraying your friends. Amin and Trump carry themselves alike, and they give the same belligerent speeches. They share a catty kind of charisma. Like Amin, Trump tells his supporters he’s fighting for their freedom, all while turning the screws.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/idi-amin-slow-poison-popular-history-uganda-review/