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'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

"Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177069/the-hidden-history-of-conspiracy-theory

#ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

"Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177069/the-hidden-history-of-conspiracy-theory

#ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

"Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177069/the-hidden-history-of-conspiracy-theory

#ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

"Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177069/the-hidden-history-of-conspiracy-theory

#ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

"Truthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why is the term used to describe beliefs that are so very unlike theories (at least in the scientific sense of the word)? In this erudite and original book, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg answers these questions not by formulating a definition but by tracing a genealogy. He uncovers two crucial strands of contemporary conspiracy theorizing on the threshold of modernity: on the one hand, political analysis as realized by Niccolò Machiavelli in such works as The Prince and, on the other, apocalyptic prophecy as channeled by the charismatic preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

The French Revolution, the antisemitic hoax known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Nuremberg Trials number among the subsequent episodes that progressively entangled these strands before finally knotting them into the twentieth-century concept of conspiracy theory. Alternative labels were also offered, most strikingly by the historian Richard Hofstadter, whose engagement with American right-wing politics in the 1950s and 1960s inspired his notion of the paranoid style. As McKenzie-McHarg shows, Hofstadter’s coinage, with its psychological bent, contributed to personalizing our understanding of conspiracy theory, thus yielding a specific type of person that, for better or worse, has become all too familiar to us today: the conspiracy theorist.

Proceeding from The Prince through The Protocols to the paranoid style and then beyond to QAnon, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory sheds new light on a complex and troubling phenomenon."

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177069/the-hidden-history-of-conspiracy-theory

#ConspiracyTheories #HistoryOfIdeas #Hoaxes

My contribution interprets Foucault's recurrent post-1970 reflections on the appropriate method for analysing power relations on the basis of two archival documents: a reading note on Erich Ludendorff's 'Der totale Krieg' and a manuscript in which Foucault discusses his concept of 'governmentality'. I use the Ludendorff note to propose that his method for analysing power relations from the first half of the 1970s, whose basic assumption is that power relations are warlike in essence, may not immediately be derived from a reading of Nietzsche but from a projection of Ludendorff's ideas onto Nietzsche's work. The note on 'governmentality' is used to argue that despite a very significant post-1976 revision of his method for analysing power, Foucault retained the notion that politics is warfare, this time leaning on Carl Schmitt's political theory.

I finished writing this article in early 2024. I am very glad that it has finally seen the light of day, and in such an overall impressive issue of Foucault Studies at that.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/974018

#Foucault #power #war, #governmentality #Nietzsche #histodons #history #PoliticalTheory #HistoryofIdeas

My contribution interprets Foucault's recurrent post-1970 reflections on the appropriate method for analysing power relations on the basis of two archival documents: a reading note on Erich Ludendorff's 'Der totale Krieg' and a manuscript in which Foucault discusses his concept of 'governmentality'. I use the Ludendorff note to propose that his method for analysing power relations from the first half of the 1970s, whose basic assumption is that power relations are warlike in essence, may not immediately be derived from a reading of Nietzsche but from a projection of Ludendorff's ideas onto Nietzsche's work. The note on 'governmentality' is used to argue that despite a very significant post-1976 revision of his method for analysing power, Foucault retained the notion that politics is warfare, this time leaning on Carl Schmitt's political theory.

I finished writing this article in early 2024. I am very glad that it has finally seen the light of day, and in such an overall impressive issue of Foucault Studies at that.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/974018

#Foucault #power #war, #governmentality #Nietzsche #histodons #history #PoliticalTheory #HistoryofIdeas

Top ten posts in October 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/01/top-ten-posts-in-october-2025/

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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

#hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

#hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

#hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

#hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6243

#hypoverse #Trumpism #HistoryOfIdeas

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/the-blank-page-revolution

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom Cassirer exercised a powerful influence, and partly by a more general interest in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.

The opening paragraph of Peter Gordon's introduction to the 2021 edition:

>> Can any meaning at all still be found in that old and often battered word humanism? Over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, so many arrows have pierced this once heroic ideal that it now resembles Saint Sebastian, bound to a tree and always just about to die. But much like the martyr himself, humanism has shown a miraculous ability to survive its wounds, and a faith in humanity seems to persist even when the evidence against it may appear overwhelming. Perhaps no document of the recent past better exemplifies the improbable persistence of this ever-dying idealism than "An Essay on Man," a book that Ernst Cassirer completed in 1944, not long before his death the following year. Few works of philosophy have ever seemed as antiquated, and fewer still as necessary, since it may serve as a reminder of what we still might be. It is a hymn to humanity in an inhuman age. <<

I'm undecided about tackling the three volumes of his "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms."

#Philosophy #ErnstCassirer #AnEssayOnMan #PhilosophyOfCulture #Humanism #IntellectaulHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Our reality isn't fixed. Explore the "conceptual earthquakes"—from Agriculture & Writing to Quantum Physics—that reshaped humanity, & the future leaps (AI, Consciousness, Energy) that could define life for 10 billion humans in this century.

Read: https://10billion.substack.com/p/the-ideas-that-transformed-humanity

#HistoryOfIdeas #Futurism #ParadigmShift #10Billion

📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direitas-velhas-novas-vfx/

#Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX

📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direitas-velhas-novas-vfx/

#Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX

📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direitas-velhas-novas-vfx/

#Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX

📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direitas-velhas-novas-vfx/

#Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX

📙 O livro "Direitas Velhas, Direitas Novas", de Fernando Rosas, vai ter mais uma sessão de apresentação, desta feita no Museu do Neo-Realismo e integrando a programação paralela à exposição "Resistir! Os Portugueses no Sistema Concentracionário do III Reich".

📅 Será no dia 22 de Março, às 16h, com moderação de António Carvalho.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/direitas-velhas-novas-vfx/

#Histodons #HistoryOfIdeas #PoliticalHistory #RightWingPolitics #HistóriaDasIdeias #HistóriaPolítica #Direita #VilaFrancaDeXira #VFX