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

Daron Acemoglu - How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises The world has reached various inflection points, or so we are often told. Advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, promises to transform our way of life. In geopolitics, the growing competition between China and the United States heralds an uncertain new era. And within many democracies, the old assumptions that undergirded politics are in doubt; liberalism appears to be in disarray and illiberal forces on the rise. Few scholars are grappling with the many dimensions of the current moment quite like Daron Acemoglu is. “The world is in the throes of a pervasive crisis,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2023, a crisis characterized by widening economic inequalities and a breakdown in public trust. Acemoglu is a Nobel Prize–winning economist, but his research and writing has long strayed beyond the conventional bounds of his discipline. He has written famously, in the bestselling book Why Nations Fail, about how institutions determine the success of countries. He has explored how technological advances have transformed or indeed failed to transform societies. And more recently he has turned his attention to the crisis facing liberal democracy, one accentuated by economic alienation and the threat of technological change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3iK7j36tI4

Valentin Behr and Eve Gianoncelli - The Radicalization of ‘Intellectual Conservatism’ in the Illiberal Moment: The Case of The European Conservative Taking the journal The European Conservative as a “laboratory” in which to examine the evolution of conservatism in Europe and beyond in the 21st century, this article focuses on intellectuals and the ideas they produce, showing how the current illiberal moment is being driven by earlier networking by conservatives at the transnational level. As a key platform for this emerging International of conservative intellectuals, The European Conservative with its relative autonomy, capacity to federate ideologically diverse conservative individuals and organizations, and ambition to promote an “intellectual conservatism” provides a unique source from which to examine the ideological trends and reconfigurations of the global right. In particular, we show how electoral successes of far-right politicians and parties have accompanied a radicalization in the content of the journal and the actors surrounding it. At the same time, the illiberal moment is seen as validating the efforts of the journal to help legitimize self-labelled conservative political entrepreneurs in Europe by supplying them with an ideological corpus. Our main finding is that conservatism, understood here as a reactionary ideology, has radicalized across Europe.

How liberals paved the way for Trump Catherine Liu, Rowan Williams, and Josh Cohen debate transgressive behaviour, the hypocrisy of liberal elites, and the abandonment of the working class. 00:00 Academics are detached from reality 00:39 Americans feel abandoned by austerity, globalisation, and liberal institutions 05:03 Liberal elites, transgressive politics, and out-of-control egos 07:31 Analysing the civil rights movements of the 20th century 09:26 The rot at the heart of modern politics 12:07 Psychoanalysis and the role of rage in transgressive behaviour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ9q7XoQ8wo

Hunter Hastings - The Post-Managerial Era of Capitalism Traditional business management was the machinery of control for industrial organizations that had sprawled beyond the oversight of their founders, an organizational innovation that became a profession and a science. The aim was the stability and predictability the financial sector demanded. But control brought increasing costs: (1) slow response to market changes, leaving established firms behind innovative newcomers; (2) bureaucratic inertia that strangled flexibility; (3) disengaged employees who felt their creativity and agility stifled. These failures weakened firms and lowered economic productivity. In the Kuhnian framework of scientific revolutions, the management paradigm entered crisis mode. Consistent with the Kuhnian framing, businesses are moving beyond management. Self-organization and enterprise flow are revolutionizing business models. Interconnected ecosystems replace bounded industries. Experimentation and feedback replace traditional strategic planning. Dynamic, autonomous teams replace hierarchies of authority. Liberated companies embrace dynamic cohesion rather than the rigidities of business administration. They operate in a post-managerial era.