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

Cory Doctorow - The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think about Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code. Don't fall for the hype! The billionaires managing the rise of AI are putting on a command performance for the bosses and investors, not for the ordinary people who might use the products. When this latest tech bubble bursts, will there be something useful for us in the wreckage? In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, Doctorow examines why we find ourselves in this mess and how we can get out of it. Life after AI should mean the tools work for us, not the other way around.

А.М. Никулин - Школа Чаянова: утопия и сельское развитие

Книга посвящена исследованию научного мировоззрения выдающегося русского экономиста Александра Васильевича Чаянова, который здесь представлен не только как экономист, но и как социолог и историк, культуролог и педагог, политолог и футуролог. В книге подвергнут анализу ряд произведений представителей так называемой чаяновской организационно-производственной школы — А. Н. Челинцева, Б. Д. Бруцкуса, А. Н. Минина, Н. П. Макарова. Особое внимание уделяется сравнению утопических и культурологических произведений Чаянова с утопиями его современников — А. А. Богданова, А. П. Платонова и публицистикой Е. Я. Дороша. Автором предпринята попытка реконструкции и развития чаяновских идей в связи с рядом советских и постсоветских обществоведческих концепций сельского развития северных регионов, малых городов, крупных и мелких аграрных предприятий, компаративистских исследований эволюции различных сельских регионов земного шара.

Russell Jacoby - Picture Imperfect. Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age.

Many observers judge utopians and their sympathizers as foolhardy dreamers at best and murderous totalitarians at worst. However, as noted social critic and historian Russell Jacoby argues, not only has utopianism been unfairly characterized, a return to an iconoclastic utopian spirit is vital for today's society. Jacoby reexamines the anti-utopian mindset and identifies how utopian thought came to be regarded with such suspicion. He challenges standard readings of such anti-utopian classics as 1984 and Brave New World and offers stinging critiques of the influential liberal and anti-utopian theorists Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Karl Popper. As Jacoby demonstrates, iconoclastic utopianism, shaped by the works of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, and other predominantly Jewish thinkers, revives society's dormant political imagination and suggests new and more imaginative ideas of the future.