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

Edward F. McGushin - Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life

In his renowned courses at the Collège de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. In this his aim was not, Edward F. McGushin contends, to develop a new knowledge of the history of philosophy; rather, it was to let himself be transformed by the very activity of thinking. Thus, this work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher. Here we see how his encounter with ancient philosophy allowed him to experience the practice of philosophy as, to paraphrase Nietzsche, a way of becoming who one is: the work of self-formation that the Greeks called askēsis.

Through a detailed study of Foucault's last courses, McGushin demonstrates that this new way of practicing philosophical askēsis evokes Foucault's ethical resistance to modern relations of power and knowledge. In order to understand Foucault's later project, then, it is necessary to see it within the context of his earlier work. If his earlier projects represented an attempt to bring to light the relations of power and knowledge that narrowed and limited freedom, then this last project represents his effort to take back that freedom by redefining it in terms of care of the self. Foucault always stressed that modern power functions by producing individual subjects. This book shows how his excavation of ancient philosophical practices gave him the tools to counter this function-with a practice of self-formation, an askēsis.

Roger Alan Deacon - Fabricating Foucault: rationalising the management of individuals

Fabricating Foucault explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. It addresses the following questions: Can the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change be defended in the light of Foucault’s critique? How might genealogy rewrite the history of truth when truth structures the very limits of our knowledge? Is it possible to rethink relations of power as strategies of governance which depend on the existence of free subjects capable of resistance? And what is the relationship between the manufacture of subjectivity and Foucault’s call to engage in aesthetic stylistic experimentation upon ourselves?

Аттракцион истории Патрика Бушрона

Что может рассказать одна загадочная картина о том, как мы мыслим прошлое? В книге «В складках времени. Разговоры об истории» французский историк Патрик Бушрон отталкивается от «Трех философов» Джорджоне, чтобы порассуждать о времени, политике, интерпретации и ремесле историка.

В новом выпуске подкаста «Умные книги» говорим с Верой Мильчиной, историком русско-французских культурных связей и переводчицей книги, о том, почему эта небольшая монография оказывается такой увлекательной и спорной. Разговор движется от загадок Джорджоне к роли Бушрона во французской интеллектуальной культуре, от Франциска Ассизского и искусства читать исторический источник — к спору древних и новых, периодизации истории и вопросу о том, где именно в «складках времени» прячется политическое.

Таймкоды:
0:20 — Начало подкаста
0:50 — О чем книга и кому она будет интересна
11:25 — Апология Бушрона от Михаила Велижева
14:00 — Бушрон о Фоме Сплитском и Франциске Ассизком
21:40 — Портрет возлюбленной как историческая проблема
27:47 — Хронология как рамка интерпретации
33:00 — О споре о древних и новых
38:51 — Тимур Атнашев о своем восприятии книги

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJgA8QrgVoo&ra=m

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee - The Thinking Machine: Response to Yuk Hui

Since Luther’s celebration of the printing press as an instrument of divine grace, technology has appeared not merely as a collection of useful devices but as a force that transforms the conditions under which truth, knowledge, and authority are produced. With Descartes, the machine became more than an external instrument: It became a model of the living body. Animals and bodily functions could be described as automata governed by mechanical laws, while thought was reserved for the immaterial mind. The machine thus became a limiting figure through which philosophy distinguished matter from mind, determination from freedom, and automatic operation from rational thought.

Against this background, Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine asks whether a machine can know, judge, act morally, and contribute to the making of peace. By transposing Kant’s fundamental questions from the human subject to the machine, Hui seeks a critical philosophy adequate to artificial intelligence. The ambition is compelling. However, its central difficulty lies in the concept of the machine on which it rests.

https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783525/the-thinking-machine-response-to-yuk-hui

Кирилл Осповат - Самозванец и демократия

В конституционной идее плебисцитарного органа и выборов правителя сходились традиции самых разных групп, вовлеченных в восстание: память о московских Земских соборах и Уложенной комиссии 1767–1768 годов (в пугачевском войске воевали несколько ее депутатов) встречалась с обыкновениями
крестьянского мира, яицких казаков и народов Степи. Башкирские источники ясно говорят о плебисцитарных истоках бунта. Протесты башкир начинались с общих собраний – йыйынов. Записанная в XIX веке башкирская песня о Салавате Юлаеве, предводителе присоединившихся к Пугачеву башкир, представляла его харизматическим плебисцитарным вождем

https://nlobooks.ru/upload/iblock/c54/y0xfxx415f15y9z5gn998kel78abe2m2.pdf