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

Natasha Lennard - On Un/Certainty:The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times

We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act? While politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke “uncertain times” to explain everything from pandemic responses to climate inaction, journalist and theorist Natasha Lennard offers a radical intervention. Lennard demonstrates how our obsession with uncertainty masks the violent certainties that dominate our fracturing world.

On Un/Certainty applies philosophical insight to political practice, offering readers not just analysis but hope and conceptual tools with which to act. The book tackles contemporary flashpoints through an original philosophical lens, demystifying our constant talk of crisis, polycrisis, and omnicrisis. Lennard examines the way entrenched conceptions of gendered experience are weaponized to harass the most vulnerable. Dissecting the discourse around borders, she reveals their enforcement to be a site of paranoid vigilance and violent property logics, which threaten millions of lives. Lennard addresses head-on the limits to traditional forms of political persuasion and demands that we think anew about how to build more liberatory forms of life. Drawing on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and placing his work alongside thinkers rarely put into conversation, Lennard contends with the nature of certainty, identity, and ideology as we struggle into the future.

Small Cities, Big Issues. Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era

Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and the provision of affordable housing, combined with the offloading of social responsibilities onto municipalities, has contributed to the generalization of social issues once chiefly associated with Canada’s largest urban centres. As the investigations in this volume illustrate, while some communities responded to these issues with inclusionary and progressive actions others were more exclusionary and reactive revealing forms of discrimination, exclusion, and “othering” in the implementation of practices and policies. Importantly, however their investigations reveal a broad range of responses to the social issues they face. No matter the process and results of the proposed solutions, what the contributors uncovered were distinctive attributes of the small city as it struggles to confront increasingly complex social issues.

If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion.

Глеб Коломиец - Философия, которая работает за двоих

Jason Read. The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics and Ideology of Work. New York City. Verso, 2024.

Идея книги, по словам Рида, появилась в ходе десятилетнего преподавания курса «Политика труда» в Университете Южного Мэна. Это определило историко-философскую составляющую книги. Приблизительно половина «Двойной смены» посвящена изложению, сопоставлению и комментированию классиков философии (Аристотель, Г.В.Ф. Гегель, К. Маркс, Б. Спиноза и др.), французских теоретиков, работающих с наследием Спинозы (Ш. Жаке, А. Матерон и др.) и спинозистскими прочтениями Маркса (Л. Альтюссер, Э. Балибар, П. Машре, Ф. Фишбах и др.), (пост)операистов (П. Вирно, М. Лаццарато, А. Негри) и исследований трудов из области социальных и гуманитарных наук (Л. Берлант, Д. Грэбер, С. Федеричи, А.Р. Хокшильд и др.). Это позволяет Риду создать обширную картографию теорий и политических практик, осмысляющих вопрос работы, и поэтому книгу можно читать в качестве краткого введения в философию труда.

https://www.stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/320/378

Сергей Зенкин - Почему мы плохо понимаем Мишеля Фуко

Хотя основные идеи Мишеля Фуко сложились в 1960–1970-х годах, нам еще только предстоит осмыслить их оригинальное содержание. Важно очистить его как от влияния американской рецепции 1990-х с ее конструированием «французской теории», так и от однобокого, неисторического прочтения в России.

https://gorky.media/context/pochemu-my-ploxo-ponimaem-mishelya-fuko

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