A new constitutional convention is imagining a country radically different from the one forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet

Традиция антифилософии объединяет таких непохожих друг на друга мыслителей, как Сёрен Кьеркегор, Лев Шестов, Мартин Хайдеггер, Вальтер Беньямин, Эрнст Юнгер, Александр Кожев и Жак Деррида. Все они стали героями книги Бориса Гройса «Введение в антифилософию». Но что все-таки такое антифилософия? Об этом Гройс рассказывает во вступлении к книге.  Философия традиционно понимается как поиск истины, вследствие […]

Some of the world’s biggest football clubs are using their supporters’ loyalty to sell them blockchain assets, “fan tokens,” and NFTs. The crypto takeover of football promises to empower supporters — but in truth, it’s just marketing fluff for a web of pyramid schemes.

В это воскресенье в Португалии прошли досрочные парламентские выборы. Социалисты рассчитывали снова сформировать своё правительство. После обработки 99% бюллетеней Социалистическая партия премьер-министра Антониу Кошты набирает более 41% голосов, у Социально-демократической партии Руя Рио менее 30%.

Нам часто твердят, что человек должен "любить" свою работу – иначе ему не добиться успеха и "личностного роста". В интервью oDR американская журналистка Сара Джаффе рассказывает о том, как любовь к работе становится новой формой эксплуатации и почему "страсть" на производстве не сможет заменить банальных трудовых прав.

Фрагмент из книги Энцо Траверсо «Революция: интеллектуальная история»

Placing The Destruction of Reason among the classics of Marxism, Enzo Traverso posits the discussion of Lukács’ most controversial book on the right track.  

Политолог университета Монпелье Александр Дезе объясняет, почему опросы общественного мнения всё чаще стали сопровождать избирательные кампании. Подробнее в интервью с самим автором.

France has always had right-wing thinkers — but they are more prominent now than any time since World War II. A decades-long counterrevolution against the Left has led to reactionary provocateurs reshaping French intellectual life.

Миньоло возвращается к определению колониальности как темной стороны модерности, намечает возможные формы деколониального пути, призывая отказаться от «колониального управления знаниями»

Study Group 5 with Alberto Toscano
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Readings:

Alberto Toscano, 'The Detour of Abstraction', Diacritics, special issue on Louis Althusser, 43. 2 (2015): 68-90

Excerpt:

There is a melancholy irony in the fact that Louis Althusser, a thinker much castigated in his own time for the abstract character of his Marxism, should have consigned his most pellucid reflections on the practical roots of abstraction to a manual of sorts that would never reach its imagined “popular” audience. Expertly edited by G. M. Goshgarian and insightfully introduced by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, Initiation à la philosophie pour les non-philosophes (1978, published in 2014) belongs to a series of book-length manuscripts unpublished in Althusser’s lifetime.1 As we learn from Goshgarian’s editorial notes, it is an integral redrafting of Être marxiste en philosophie (1976, published in 2015), which in turn can be regarded as the virtual second tome of Sur la reproduction (now published in English as On the Reproduction of Capitalism). That book had employed Althusser’s cherished image of the “detour” to explicate how correctly posing the question “What is philosophy?” from a Marxist standpoint necessarily required reconstructing a historical-materialist theory of ideology within which idealist philosophy could find its place and materialist philosophy its point of attack. The paradoxes and fetters of Althusser’s own philosophical practice are evident in the fact that what went unpublished were not abstruse speculative works or private aphorisms but didactic theoretical and political interventions, which include some of the French thinker’s most limpid as well as most playful prose.2 Their publication today, besides suggesting revisions to our image of Althusser, to how we periodize that inveterate periodizer, inserts itself into a vastly different political and intellectual conjuncture, one in which debates about the nature of abstraction intersect with a partial resurgence in Marxist theorizing.

Alberto Toscano, ‘A Just People, or Just the People? Althusser, Foucault and Juridical Ideology’, Consecutio Rerum. Rivista critica della postmodernità, V.8 (2020): 163-183

Abstract:
The return of the figure of the people to the forefront of radical theorizing in France can be contextualized and complicated by contrasting it with the relative hostility or indifference to it in the ambit of la pensée soixante-huit. For a spell, the people was largely displaced by collective formations that sought to escape the nation-state cage of political modernity, notjust antagonistic conceptions of class, but all kinds of groups, movements, multiplicities, minorities, etc. This essay probes two theoretical episodes that can contribute to a critical archaeology of the people, namely Louis Althusser’s reading of Rousseau in the mid-1960s and Michel Foucault’s problematization of popular justice in the early 1970s. In both we see how a critique of the modern (and Republican) figure of the people is accompanied by a militant anatomy of juridical ideology, and an effort to think forms of group formation and conflict irreducible to the dominant paradigms of political modernity.
Keywords: Louis Althusser; Michel Foucault; Juridical Ideology; People; Popular Justice.

Louis Althusser, Philosophy for Non-Philosophers, ed. and trans. G.M. Goshgarian, London: Bloomsbury.https://ca1lib.org/book/5206629/717566