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

0.0001: думай о малом

Отрывок из книги Тимоти Мортона и Доминика Бойера «Гипосубъекты»

Тимоти Мортон, научивший нас гиперобъектам, решил не останавливаться на этом и написал в компании с американским антропологом Домиником Бойером книгу «Гипосубъекты. В становлении человеком». С разрешения издательства «Гиле Пресс» публикуем небольшой отрывок из этой работы.

https://gorky.media/fragments/00001-dumai-o-malom

Dave Mandl - The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized

How employees in the tech sector see the world, themselves, and the (im)possibility of change.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/social-codes-tech-workers-class-identity-digital-capitalism/

David Harvey - The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works. Verso Books, London, 2026

Reviewed by Matt McManus

Harvey’s recent book, The Story of Capital, reads very much like a coda to his reconstruction, what he calls the ‘Marx project’ in the preface (ix). Where the earlier companions dive deep into specific books, the goal of The Story of Capital is summative. Harvey argues that ‘capital’s totality is an organic system in perpetual evolution.’ (3) The goal is to understand this totality in all its moving and changing parts, and above all else the relations between them. This is a key point Harvey has been stressing since at least Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. He points out that Marx, following Hegel, doesn’t understand social causality the way a bourgeois philosopher might. It’s not the case that A causes B which in turn leads to C. This aligns with a natural and social ontology that starts from perceiving the world as a collection of separate individuals and then describes social laws as an emergent feature. By contrast, Marx’s view of causality is relational and mutual. A effects B and is recursively effected in turn. Consider an extending root structure which draws nutrients from the earth and air, while in turn reshaping the soil structure and atmosphere as it grows into a tree. It is a holistic ontology.  Moreover, over time this relationship itself can become independently impactful through alienation, which leads to reification.

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22705_the-story-of-capital-what-everyone-should-know-about-how-capital-works-by-david-harvey-reviewed-by-matt-mcmanus/

К. Митрошенков - Не совсем бессмысленный и не вполне беспощадный

О книге Кирилла Осповата «Пугачевщина»

Восстание Пугачева с давних пор описывается в историографии как хаотическое народное движение, лишенное артикулированных целей и неразборчивое в средствах. В новой книге Кирилла Осповата предпринимается попытка ревизовать этот подход и переписать историю пугачевщины с точки зрения ее непосредственных участников, а не просвещенных элит, подавлявших бунт

https://gorky.media/reviews/ne-sovsem-bessmyslennyi-i-ne-vpolne-besposhchadnyi

Denis Vyaznikov - The paradox of fanaticism: Hegemony beyond dangerous victory

This paper re-evaluates fanaticism as a distinct logic of political articulation within post-foundational political thought. Often dismissed as irrational zeal and overlooked in political theory compared to populism, fanaticism is here defined through its differentiation from populism. Both share an antagonistic understanding of the political, but differ significantly: while populism risks losing concrete content in its pursuit of hegemony, fanaticism centres a pure, concrete signifier, sustained by radical commitment and immediate utopian aims. This distinction avoids what Ernesto Laclau terms the ‘dangerous victory’. The paper proposes a concept of fanaticism that is operationalisable for empirical research, applicable not only to historical contexts but also to contemporary radical social movements, such as The Last Generation (Die Letzte Generation). This approach refrains from confining such movements to specific ideological or cultural content, providing a framework for analysing their organizational structures and mobilisation strategies.