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

Suddhabrata Deb Roy - India Comes Onboard: ‘Cockroaches’ and the Global Gen Z Revolts

Part I of a dive into global youth revolts and the Indian "Cockroach" protests

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/india-comes-onboard-cockroaches-and-the-global-gen-z-revolts

Benjamin J. Brisson - Charting the Road to Behemoth's Lair: F. A. Hayek's and Franz L. Neumann's Studies of Totalitarian Economic Governance

Did capitalism or socialism produce the conditions favorable to National Socialism? This question has been asked and answered since the 1930s, and the historian Benjamin Carter Hett has called the answer a “historical Rorschach test” due to its divisive nature. This article puts two original figures in this debate, the so-called neoliberal F. A. Hayek and the neo-Marxist Franz L. Neumann, into conversation as a means of exploring this question and finding common ground beyond it. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Neumann's revised Behemoth were both published in 1944 and have informed subsequent attempts to understand the roots of totalitarianism. Renewed interest in each scholar highlights their relevance to our own time, yet no work has addressed the complementary elements of their thought, nor their overlapping time at the London School of Economics. Despite Hayek's and Neumann's distinct answers to the capitalism/socialism question, they shared common criticisms of the Nazi regime's fragmented sovereignty, its political compromise between competing factions, and its particularistic application of legal principles. These features of what Hayek termed a “middle way” and Neumann termed a “polyocracy” created conditions favorable to totalitarianism. Hayek's and Neumann's insights foreground issues that continue to concern us today, irrespective of capitalist or socialist allegiances.

Александр Бикбов - Расколдовать эффект Фуко

Александр Бикбов — к столетию французского мыслителя

К столетию Мишеля Фуко социолог Александр Бикбов разбирает условия, в которых стало возможным невероятное сочетание интеллектуального стоицизма и социального эпикурейства, свойственное французскому философу, — и приходит к выводу, что посмертная демистификация этой фигуры не столько лишает ее магии «гениальности», сколько возвращает надежду на то, что критически мыслить могут не только обитатели парижских олимпов.

https://gorky.media/context/raskoldovat-effekt-fuko

Frank W. Elwell - Technique and Control. Jacques Ellul's Sociology

Jacques Ellul was a prolific writer and brilliant sociologist whose work on technological society and propaganda remains relevant today, despite coming from a distinctly French, postwar perspective. Technique and Control re-introduces Ellul’s main body of work to social scientists and readers curious about technology and social life. Frank W. Elwell has updated and supplemented Ellul’s examples of lifeworld domination through physical technology, organization, and an underlying mindset of technique that prioritizes efficient goal-oriented behaviors guided by experience, empiricism, calculability, predictability, and logic. Particular attention is given to the development of human techniques of control such as education, propaganda, and other modes of socialization. By re-invigorating these writings for contemporary readers, Elwell illuminates an important body of sociological work for a new generation of social scientists, students, and those interested in modern society and its continuing evolution.