Оуэн Хазерли о Марке Фишере

Оуэн Хазерли — британский публицист, пишущий преимущественно об архитектуре. Хазерли видит в архитектуре политику и отказывается не любить то, что принято не любить. «Guardian» называет его одним из самых неоднозначных и острых на язык архитектурных критиков современности. Его первая книга, «Воинствующий Модернизм», получила такой сильный резонанс, что по рецензиям невозможно понять, как его воспринимает критика. Что важнее сейчас Хазерли был близким другом Марка Фишера, известного философа, покинувшего нас 5 лет назад.

https://syg.ma/@paviel-lobychiev/ouen-khazierli-o-markie-fishierie-dlia-tgh-kanala-field-of-pikes

Морис Ульриш - История: «Свободны как искусство»

В выставочном центре имени Оскара Нимейера
на площади полковника Фабьена проходит выставка «Свободны как искусство». Она объединила сто пятьдесят полотен, связанных с историей отношений между Французской коммунистической партией (ФКП) и авангардом в искусстве.

Но всё же эти отношения были далеко не безоблачны. Доказательством этого утверждения служит сама экспозиция. Соцреализм, фигуративизм,  абстракционизм. В политику многие художники приходили разными путями, в зависимости от эпохи или движений.

https://humanite-russie.ru/2022/01/28/istorija-svobodny-kak-iskusstvo/

Spinoza, Marx, and the Great Resignation: A Conversation with Jason Read

On this episode of Acid Horizon we are joined by Jason Read, a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, to discuss one of his essays on Spinoza and Marx. The title is 'The Order and Connection of Ideology Is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation', and will appear in his forthcoming book Double Shift. In it, Read assesses two contemporary French theorists, Frédéric Lordon and Yves Citton, who in their own writings explore the ways in which Spinoza can enrich our understanding of Capitalism. Along the way, we discuss the history of French Spinozism, COVID and the Great Resignation, capitalist myth-building, desire and ideology, and the legacy of Louis Althusser.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-fMyiD9hk

Frédéric Lordon - Mass Mobilisation of the Multitude is the Only Solution

Since we last met, the philosopher and economist Frédéric Lordon has published three books: Vivre sans?, Figures du communisme and En travail. The first discussed autonomist, libertarian and localist positions, opposing to these a global – ‘macroscopic’ – transformation by force of numbers, which he did not hesitate to describe, positively, as the ‘Grand Soir’; the second sought to rehabilitate the communist hypothesis and detach it entirely, through concrete sketches of the future, from the crimes committed in its name in the twentieth century; the most recent, written together with the sociologist Bernard Friot, detailed his support for the mode of socio-economic organisation known as the ‘lifetime wage’ (but renamed by him ‘general economic guarantee’). For Lordon, this evolution has been accompanied by a central concern for the planet’s habitability. What we discuss with him now is therefore social revolution and ecological emergency, against a background of growing neo-fascism.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5248-mass-mobilisation-of-the-multitude-is-the-only-solution

А. Савин - Трактовка мысли Ленина у Славоя Жижека

В статье раскрывается характер истолкования ленинской мысли Славоем Жижеком и его общественное и философское значение. Демонстрируется, что это истолкование базируется на противопоставлении Ленина и ленинизма. Это противопоставление осуществляется посредством проблематизации отношения экономики и политики и трактовки бытия на основе жижекового анализа критики марксизма постмодернистскими левыми мыслителями. Демонстрируется, что жижекова трактовка ленинизма является новым этапом полемики западного марксизма c советским. Раскрываются методологические основания этого нового вызова.

http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/vox/2021_35/12.pdf

Jonathan Haslam - The Nixon administration and the death of Allende's Chile: a case of assisted suicide  

In this revealing history of Allende's Chile, Jonathan Haslam uncovers the actual involvement of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the CIA in that country's struggle for political and economic stability. The story begins by tracing the trajectory of the communist and socialist parties from the pre-war period through to the dramatic election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile in 1970, in a country long accustomed to political democracy but divided by great inequality of income. It weaves in an account of a new force linked to Castro's Cuba, and elucidates the longstanding politicization of the Chilean armed forces through mere talk of action in the early 1960s to the attempted coup d'etat of 1969 and the coup of 1973. It highlights the personal profile of Allende and his close ties to Cuba, and shows Soviet indifference to the fate of the regime during a period of emerging detente with the United States, which meant enduring isolation for this precarious socialist experiment.

In this tragic tale of assisted suicide, The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile underlines the chronic mismanagement of the economy in the drive to socialism on the back of a minority franchise. It deepens our understanding of close US involvement in attempts to block the formation of the Unidad Popular government, and how it then attempted to bring down the regime by massive subsidies to nationwide strikes, engineering a coup led by the navy behind the back even of CIA stations in Santiago.

John Baldacchino - Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer  

Originally published in 1996, Post-Marxist Marxism is a discussion of realism in a Post-Marxist context. The book argues that this discussion must take two simultaneous routes: recognizing deconstruction as the tool of enquiry to disentangle the insufficiency of contemporary answers in political philosophy and aesthetics, and reclaiming realism to move beyond the Post-Modernist tradition. To answer the issues of realism, the book revisits Lukacs' and Adorno's aesthetic questions, which in their different approaches prefigured the questions of the present. Central issues include totality; method; identarian and non-identarian dialects; the Enlightenment; and the end of Modernity.

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Как пресса превращает людей в демонов

В Издательском доме Высшей школы экономики скоро выйдет русский перевод классической работы Стэнли Коэна «Народные дьяволы и моральная паника». В этой книге английский социолог анализирует, как СМИ манипулируют общественным сознанием, демонизируя отдельные категории людей, будь то представители молодежных субкультур, футбольные болельщики или беженцы и трудовые мигранты. Публикуем отрывок из главы «Описание как сфабрикованные новости».

https://gorky.media/fragments/paralizovannye-bajkery-krushat-kinoteatr/

S. Herzbrun-Dayan, M. Löwy, E. Varikas - Max Weber, victim of police violence

Faced with numerous protests denouncing the violence of the ‘forces of law and order’ against unarmed demonstrators, Emmanuel Macron responded with a historic phrase: ‘Don’t talk about repression and police violence. These words are unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law’ (2 March 2019).

This is an almost ideal-typical example (in Max Weber’s terms) of what could be called «fake political science»

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5250-max-weber-victim-of-police-violence

Ian Menter - Raymond Williams and Education: History, Culture, Democracy  

Raymond Williams' major contributions to intellectual progress are usually categorised within cultural theory, media studies or neo-Marxist studies. Serious analysis of his contributions to education as a field of practice as well as a field of study have been relatively neglected. This is the first book to redress that omission, focusing on how his writing and thought have helped us to understand education in Britain and also provide analytical tools that have helped to shape educational studies in the USA and internationally.  

Ian Menter draws on Williams' several novels, including Border Country, as well as on his seminal contributions to cultural theory, including Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, Keywords and Marxism and Literature. Menter also examines how Williams' life shaped his understanding of education including his early involvement in adult education and his deeply ambivalent relationship with the academy. Public education is positioned as a key arena of social struggle where decisions shaping the nature of our futures and crucial to creating a democratic and just society.

Michael Hudson - Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance  

Michael Hudson has been a voice in the wind since the first Edition of Super Imperialism in 1973.. He has been blackballed, ridiculed & ostracized by mainstream economists. Why? Because he challenged conventional wisdom that Balance of Payments deficits were an anomaly & then later in history as "natural" .. Pure garbage. Wall street has gained the upper hand by maintaining the dollar as the world reserve currency. Hudson emphasizes the military nature of propping up the dollar. What he means by "Super" in Super Imperialism is the fact that Central Banks & Sovereign Wealth funds have absorbed inflationary US Treasury bonds/bills i.e., tribute has been paid by foreigners for the US to maintain global hegemon status while artificially propping up the domestic economy. Interestingly, the "09" August/September Issue of Foreign Affairs frankly discusses issues which Hudson has been writing about for 40 years.

Франсуа Досс - Жиль Делёз и Феликс Гваттари. Перекрестная биография

Жиль Делёз был философом. Феликс Гваттари — психоаналитиком. Жизнь и совместное творчество этих важнейших фигур французской интеллектуальной жизни второй половины XX века — яркий пример политического и интеллектуального расцвета в период мая 1968 года. Делёз преподавал философию в экспериментальном университете Венсена и, опираясь на глубокое осмысление истории философии, взялся за уникальную работу по созданию концептов. Ф. Гваттари был психоаналитиком и одним из первых учеников Лакана. Участник многочисленных левых движений, он вел практику в психиатрической клинике Ла Борд и создал в 1966 году самоуправляемый научно-исследовательский коллектив — Центр институциональных исследований и образования. Их знакомство друг с другом в 1969 году положит начало большой дружбе и беспрецедентным интеллектуальным приключениям. Начиная с «Анти-Эдипа» и заканчивая «Тысячей плато» и «Что такое философия?», они напишут вдвоем произведения, не имеющие аналогов по своей концептуальной изобретательности и многообразию отсылок, направленные на борьбу с психоанализом и капитализмом.

Non-State Societies and Deleuze and Guattari: A Discussion of “Edges of the State”

On this episode, Craig and Will are joined by John Protevi to discuss his latest book, Edges of the State. Protevi challenges dominant notions in anthropological research and other human sciences with anarchic perspective informed by theorists such as Pierre Clastres, Gilles Deleuze, James C. Scott, and others. Central to our discussion is the question of how our historical understanding of human sociality and the manifestation of the state could be altered if we decentered the concept of primordial hostility. What if we approached these discussions with a framework of prosocial behavior? However, there is something for everyone here. This discussion covers ground ranging from Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ideology to contemporary discourses on neuroscience.

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

Everything Is Political Now but Nothing Changes

Jen Pan speaks with Anton Jäger about his new article on “hyper-politics”: while a constant, low-stakes political discourse suffuses everything now, very little improves. Jäger contrasts hyper-politics to both the post-politics of neoliberalism and the mass institutional politics of the traditional left. Hyper-politics has low-stakes for entry, participation, and exit. The result is a stream of fleeting, impermanent political moments that add up to very little. Jäger considers how we might move from hyper-politics back to the mass institutional working-class politics that saw real gains in the past.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7h9KvuBHLY