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

Михаил Заботкин - Как и почему умирают демократии: введение в сравнительные исследования автократизации (Часть 1)

Этот методический материал знакомит с базовыми понятиями и подходами к изучению режимных трансформаций: что такое демократия, автократия и автократизация, как различаются либеральные и электоральные демократии, закрытые и электоральные автократии, а также почему прежние модели демократизации больше не объясняют современные политические процессы. Текст также рассматривает ключевые концепции — от дебатов об “автократических волнах” до идей democratic backsliding, democratic erosion и гибридных режимов — и предлагает широкий список литературы для дальнейшего погружения в тему.

Этот материал может стать надежным проводником в современные сравнительные исследования автократизации и помогает связать теоретические концепции с конкретными кейсами Польши, Венесуэлы, Турции и США.

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Major Waldemar Fydrych - Lives of the Orange Men: A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement

Between 1981 and 1989 in Wroclaw Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the Orange Alternative deployed the power of surrealist creativity to destabilise the Communist government. It worked. The militia were overwhelmed by thousands of unruly dwarves; celebrations of official festivals so disturbingly loyal that the Communist forces had to arrest anyone wearing red; walls covered in dialectical graffiti; new official festivals to assist the secret police with their duties; and a popular restaging of the storming of the Winter Palace using cardboard tanks and ships.
 
Lives of the Orange Men tells for the first time the story of this activist-art movement and its protagonists that played a key role in the 1989 revolution in Poland. Written by its central figure and featuring an appendix of newly-translated key texts including the ‘Manifesto of Socialist Surrealism’, a timeline of every Orange Alternative happening and a new foreword from the Yes Men.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi - Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression

Analyses the current wave of depression, or "desertion", that is causing more and more people to abandon hope and desire in a world where social, political and environment collapse seems inevitable. According to psychiatrists, depression is spreading among the young in a recent survey published by the New York Times, 54% of people aged 16-25 show symptoms of an impending clinical depression. In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that there is something wrong with these figures. What today is often called "depression", in Berardi's view, is in fact something different a conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". Examples of this desertion are the deceleration of social rhythms and psycho-deflation provoked by the traumatic experience of the pandemic; the multiplication of environmental collapse which has reinforced the perception of political impotence; the explosion of war at the eastern border of Europe; and the "great resignation" from work taking place in the US. In this book, Berardi analyses why this desertion from political participation is on the rise and why more people are quitting everything in our age of political impotence, the rise of the far-right and nationalist aggression, and the brutal realiy of climate collapse.

Nanopolitics Handbook

The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated contexts of urban collectivity. The nanopolitics handbook investigates the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarious lives and modes of collaboration through bodies and their encounters. Starting from the exploration of what bodies can do with curiosity, courage and care nanopolitics is a proposal for producing new collective subjectivations.

Based on the experiments and experiences of the nanopolitics group, this book proposes exercises, concepts and ideas as little maps and machines for action. Drawing on social movements, grassroots organizing, dance, theatre and bodywork, the reflections and practices here present strategies for navigating and reconfiguring the playing field of ‘nanopolitics’, activating its entanglement with the major politics of our time.