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

Political Activist Ethnography. Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a resource and focuses on moments and spaces of direct struggle to reveal how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them.

Featuring research from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Bangladesh, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and the United States on matters as diverse as anti-poverty organizing, prisoners’ re-entry, anti-fracking campaigns, left-inspired think-tank development, non-governmental partnerships, involuntary psychiatric admission, and perils of immigration medical examination, contributors to this volume adopt a “bottom-up” approach to inquiry to produce knowledge for activists, not about them. A must-read for humanities and social sciences scholars keen on assisting activists and advancing social change.

Matteo Polleri - From Adversity to Heresy: Towards a Disjunctive Conjunction of Foucault and Marx

Over the last decades, influential critical thinkers have creatively mobilized Foucault's ideas to renovate the Marxist lens. However, while recognizing key proximities between Marx's and Foucault's works, Étienne Balibar has argued that these attempts necessarily face fundamental obstacles. In his view, the "point of heresy" connecting Marx's and Foucault's thought must be understood as a fundamental "adversity." By critically discussing Balibar's argument, this article shows that a "conjunctive", rather than "adversative," interpretation of the "point of heresy" might be used to develop a cross-reading of Marx and Foucault. The article thus poses methodological reflections for a systematic reassessment of the Marx-Foucault relationship.

https://www.genealogy-critique.net/article/23083/galley/42321/download/

Nathan Widder - Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense

Landmark study providing a systematic book-by-book and thinker-by-thinker account of the development Deleuze's philosophy up to and including The Logic of Sense. Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense is a landmark study that offers a detailed and systematic exposition of Deleuze's early philosophy that frames it as a project of constructing a philosophy of sense. Through a detailed book-by-book and thinker-by-thinker analysis, Nathan Widder demonstrates how the development of this philosophy of sense underpins the concepts and theses that define Deleuze's thought in this period, along with his approach to questions of philosophical method and system, to the history of philosophy, and to the structuralism and psychoanalysis of his day. This transformative work also challenges the dominant interpretations of Deleuze by showing how The Logic of Sense, rather than Difference and Repetition, is really the early Deleuze's magnum opus. But this study not only breaks with dominant orthodoxies; it also revolutionizes the scholarship by tracing concretely the threads that give Deleuze's wide-ranging thought its coherence and clarity.

Naomi Klein - End Times Fascism

My guest is Naomi Klein, an author, activist and professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. She joins me to discuss her new book, co-authored with Astra Taylor, “End Times Fascism”.

We explore the ideology and factions of today’s far right: “religious, tech and ethno-nationalist endtimers”. Each group is mobilized around similarly apocalyptic themes; eschatology, singularity and climate crisis. These factions now join together as a nationalist bloc that preps the state bunker in anticipation of the end of the world.

0:00 Intro
0:40 Far right factions
7:23 Neoliberalism vs populism
13:25 Libertarians vs Palantir
20:02 Diversity & nationalism
28:08 Climate & internationalism
35:08 Treason vs humanism
40:53 Liberalism & the left
47:33 Disarmament

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UHDwQ6FuWCs&ra=m

Тимур Атнашев - Рефлексия поражения: политическая философия как институт возгонки

Статья вводит понятие возгонки — механизма, которым политическая философия, функционируя как социальный институт рефлексивной адаптации к макроисторическим сдвигам, производит новые политические субъекты и порядки. Данная модель радикализует историцистский поворот (кембриджская школа, история понятий): теперь вопрос не только в том, «что философ делал текстом», но и в том что он произвел в социальной реальности, в поле конкурирующих проектов и политических игроков. Философ находит живые социальные практики, способные стать основанием нового порядка, и именует коллективного субъекта: имя не наклеивается на готовую группу явлений, а собирает рассеянные практики и идентичности в субъекта. Так мыслитель набрасывает институциональный эскиз и через серию проверок утверждает новое имя как саму социальную реальность. В статье различается плазма практик (то, что люди делают) и аффективная плазма (то, что они чувствуют и чего ждут); возгонка обращается к обоим типам плазмы, но в случае опоры только на аффекты оборачивается утопизмом или популизмом. Феноменологически описан механизм возгонки в четырех измерениях и его режимы неполноты: деконструкция без прототипирования, утопизм, хранение без активации. В заключении диагностируется современная ситуация: кризис либеральной демократии, глобальная метарамка политического и распад больших нарративов создают условия для активации механизма, но новое имя и порядок не названы.

https://nlobooks.ru/upload/iblock/c26/f2a5ociq3or7ymgffaw411o8la5zjhpw.pdf