Константин Морозов - Неореакция: запутавшись в противоречиях

Неореакция — это относительно новая ветвь правых политических взглядов, разделяющая антиэгалитарную и антидемократическую повестку, но отказывающаяся от мистических и метафизических оснований, к которым прибегали старые правые. Пик популярности NRx в русскоязычном интернете пришелся на 2017-й год, что способствовало популяризации, но не критическому анализу позиции. Фактически зачастую ни сторонники, ни противники неореакции не пытаются разобраться с тем, какие аргументы и основания сопровождают идеологию «Тёмного Просвещения».

https://syg.ma/@insolarance-cult/nieorieaktsiia-zaputavshis-v-protivoriechiiakh

Simon Brown - The Rise of the Elite Anti-Intellectual

For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.

In his recent book The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism, historian Antti Lepistö provides some crucial backstory for how conservative intellectuals came to claim the mantle of popular opinion against an allegedly hostile intelligentsia. Starting in the 1970s, neoconservatives began to formulate arguments based on the authority of common sense. In the pages of publications like The Public Interest, writers like Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb turned from social science to moral philosophy to celebrate the intuitions of the “common man” against the bureaucrats behind the social programs of the Great Society.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-rise-of-the-elite-anti-intellectuals

«Реклама — это прототип фейковых новостей»

Интервью со Светланой Матвиенко

Светлана Матвиенко занимается исследованиями науки и технологий (STS), ее интересуют такие явления как кибервойна, милитаризация цифрового пространства и дезинформация. Их анализу посвящена книга Светланы Cyberwar and Revolution («Кибервойна и революция»), вышедшая в 2019 году и пока не переведенная на русский язык. В данный момент исследовательница работает над над сборником Cyberwar Topologies: In Struggle for a Post-American Internet («Топологии кибервойны: в борьбе за пост-американский интернет»). Анна Энгельхардт, одна из авторок «Топологий кибервойны», поговорила со Светланой о связи кибервойны и капитализма платформ, механизмах слежки и корпорациях, использующих наши персональные данные против нас самих.

https://doxajournal.ru/stadis/cyberwar

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - How Real Estate Segregated America

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy to the detriment of African Americans

In a year of many anniversaries, two in particular stand out with respect to the housing crisis facing the United States today. The first is the passage of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, more commonly known as the Fair Housing Act. In some ways, the legislation bitterly acknowledged the role of housing discrimination in keeping African Americans in a subordinate social position. Excluding Black people from white neighborhoods, while simultaneously disinvesting in Black communities, has kept them out of the best-funded schools and highest-paying jobs. Housing discrimination was a linchpin of Black inequality in American society, and the Fair Housing Act held out the promise of undoing it by banning racial discrimination in the renting, financing, and selling of housing.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-real-estate-segregated-america-fair-housing-act-race

С. Жижек – Событие

Славой Жижек устраивает читателю захватывающее путешествие по Событию - одному из центральных концептов современной философии. Эта книга Жижека, как и всегда, полна всевозможных культурных отсылок, в том числе к современному кинематографу, пестрит фирменными анекдотами на грани - или за гранью - приличия, погружена в историко-философский контекст и - при всей легкости изложения - глубока и проницательна.

Hwang Sok-Yong - The Prisoner

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang’s imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart.

In this capacious memoir, Hwang's life is set against the volatile political backdrop of modern Korea, a country subject to colonialism, Cold War division, a devastating war, decades of authoritarian dictatorships, a mass democratic uprising, and a still-lingering, painful division between North and South. The Prisoner moves between Hwang's imprisonment and scenes from his life as a boy in Pyongyang and Seoul, as a young activist protesting South Korea’s military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad and in so doing, braids his extraordinary life into the dramatic revolutions and transformations of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Dominique Routhier - Why Has Capitalism Run Out of Steam?

In his recent book, Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation, the Los Angeles–based Marxist critic Jason E. Smith makes the case that the dominant narrative of a tech-driven recovery is fundamentally out of tune with economic realities. When the economic data is properly disentangled from faulty definitions of productivity and untenable assumptions about perpetual economic growth, it becomes clear that we are not on the verge of an age of prodigious wealth creation spurred by smart machines. Rather, as the book title suggests, we are living through an age of stagnation with no reversal in sight.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-has-capitalism-run-out-of-steam/

Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels -
Antiracism Can’t Overcome Capitalism

Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels explain why the insistence that leftists can "split the difference" between antiracism and anti-capitalism is fundamentally misleading

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYuzFZfsxEY

Michael Hardt - Empire in 2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hG_Fmumz1Jw

Capitalism with Michael Hardt

An interview on how the transformation of capitalism has changed the possibilities for anti-capitalist struggle with Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Assembly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUpJfteRNo

Guilherme Boulos - Struggles of the roofless

Interview by Mario Sergio Conti

The homeless can be found in virtually every country of the world. But perhaps nowhere have they become a mass movement as significant as in Brazil. There, in the country’s largest city, they have found a leader of national impact in Guilherme Boulos. Running for president in 2018, he came tenth with less than 1 per cent of the vote. Running for mayor of São Paulo just two years later, he came second with over two million votes. A charismatic speaker and organizer, Boulos aged 39 belongs to a generation that has not produced many examples of dynamism on the left in the North, where figures like Iglesias in Spain and Ruffin in France remain exceptions. He owes his ascent to the combination of his own gifts with the gravity of the plight of the ‘roofless’ and the cataclysm of health care in Brazil, under a ruler presiding over the second highest number of deaths from covid on the planet. Politically, the debacle of Bolsonaro’s tenure has redrawn the institutional map of the country. The alarm of middle-class layers who earlier supported the hard-right President is now turning normal bastions of the establishment into a disaffected fronde. The same Supreme Court which mandated the imprisonment of Lula has suddenly reversed itself to release him. Under threat of impeachment Bolsonaro, who once excoriated the marshlands ‘Centre’ of Congress, has turned to it for protection. With Lula currently holding an overwhelming lead in opinion polls for the 2022 presidential election, his former arch-adversaries of the psdb Cardoso in the lead—have announced that their long-time bugbear is, after all, preferable to the incumbent, presaging the dangers of an embrace of the pt by the centre-right. The psol, of which Boulos is now the leading representative, has always been to the left of the pt, often fiercely so, but in this conjuncture is standing with no sectarian reservation firmly by Lula. The stakes in the outcome are high. Latin America has started to roll back the gains of the right of recent years, with the victories of López Obrador in Mexico, Alberto Fernández in Argentina, Luis Arce in Bolivia, Pedro Castillo in Peru, and the rise of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and of Gabriel Boric of Boulos’s own cohort in Chile. Lula’s return to power, and to his roots in working-class radicalism, on a popular crest could make the region a beacon of non-conformity once again.

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii130/articles/struggles-of-the-roofless

Branko Milanovic - Capitalism: Still the Only Game in Town?

Economist Branko Milanovic discusses the public's declining faith in capitalism and whether viable alternatives exist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwJHXYtmiN4

Whither the Commune? 1871-2021

An online meeting in preparation of the conference "War, State, Commune" featuring:

Bruno Bosteels (Columbia University)
Joshua Clover (University of California )
Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York)
Susana Draper (Princeton University)
Michael Hardt (Duke University)
Fred Moten (New York University)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hraBXV2ukH8

Independent Unions and Social Protest in Russia

Hosts Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra speak with Alexei Gusev on Independent Unions and Social Protest in Russia. Alexei is joined by Andrey Oleynikov and Ilya Guryanov

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_GSXGAjCWk

Профсоюзный дайджест. Яндекс, Wildberries, Nestle, Apple. 16-22.08.2021

Эта неделя удивляет тем, как порой айти компании стремятся извлечь максимальную прибыль разнообразными способами, когда в ход идут такие, казалось бы, забытые способы извлечения максимальной выгоды, как рабство!

После таких новостей с одной стороны, не понимаешь, как вообще возможно рабство в 21 веке, а с другой стороны, радуешься, что ты не раб и можешь пойти сейчас и свободно поработать в выходные и после работы, проигнорировать свой больничный, отменить отпуск, лишь бы не пропустить очередной ежемесячный платеж по кредитам.

Давай посмотрим, как же достигают своего успеха самые успешные компании на рынке АйТи.

https://habr.com/ru/post/574046/

Карен Жансельм - Мир после Макдоналдса

«Люди здесь боятся умереть не от ковида, а от голода». Бывший ресторан McDonald’s в Марселе стал первым в мире рестораном этой сети, закрывшимся по решению суда. Но во время карантина работники ресторана, профсоюзные активисты, реквизировали здание и переоборудовали производство. Во время пандемии он был единственным заведением общепита с работающей кухней на квартал. Сегодня там создаётся кооперативное общество с целью трансформации проекта в долгосрочную платформу гражданской солидарности.

https://humanite-russie.ru/2021/08/24/mir-posle-makdonaldsa/

Where the Labor Movement Goes After Richard Trumka

Paul Prescod examines the life and legacy of former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and discusses where the AFL-CIO and the labor movement in general could go next.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Foj_EnluVE

Tope Folarin - Masters of Reality

The mania of white truth

Biden’s campaign promised a recommitment to truth after four disorienting years of alternative facts and Trumpian spin. An appealing idea, if you’re the kind of idiot who believes in the bald-faced lie of inherent American goodness!

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/masters-of-reality-folarin