Critique de Mouffe : agonisme libéral ou post-politique en sursis ?
Merlin Gillard démonte Mouffe (On the Political) : consensus libéral → agonisme dans le même cadre représentatif = illusion. Retour du politique sans changer le système libéral ? Nihilisme ou opportunisme. Anarchisme et mouvements bottom-up plus radicaux. #Mouffe #PostPolitics #Agonisme #DémocratieLibérale #PoliticalTheory Merlin Gillard interroge la théorie de Chantal Mouffe (On the Political, 2005)…
Reform fails not because people resist change, but because institutions inherit decades of emotional and procedural memory.
This video explains the ghost layer: the invisible structure that absorbs, dilutes, or reinterprets reform before it ever reaches citizens.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/illegible-systems-why-institutions?
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#Instrumentalization of #culture to mask the existing #structural material inequities is further concentrating political #power and reproducing historical, contemporary and #intersectional inequities, e.g., #patriarchy, #class, #coloniality, leaving human rights to markets and #vicissitudes of capital, structural #racism, among others.
#globalinequalities #NoBandaidSolutions
Hannah Arendt war eine deutsch-US-amerikanische politische Theoretikerin und Publizistin. Ihre jüdische Herkunft, die sie als zentrale Identität verstand, und die Erfahrung der Verfolgung durch das nationalsozialistische Regime prägten ihr Denken und ihr Engagement gegen Totalitarismus.
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📍 What happens when the #metrics hegemony and the 'efficiency by #ai' discourse — unquestioningly and uncritically deployed in the contemporary moment and at the expense of healthcare quality, #equity, veracity and #democracy — silence the much needed attention on political determinants of planetary #health?
“But the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed themselves; mystification is one of the forms of oppression”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
#books #democracy #humanrights #organizing #antifascist #solidarity #ethics #ethicsofethics #nestedgovernance #politicaltheory
Are you working on how #labor is related to the good life? On #Utopia and labor in #liberalism, #feminism or #socialism? How philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms, #unions, and labor markets as means of advancing #justice, #freedom, and virtue at work?
Then submit your abstract for the 2026 "Utopias of Work" #conference in #Groningen. https://philevents.org/event/show/145617
Recent changes in the world of work – changes such as growing precarity in people’s access to the goods of work, the rise of platform work, the resurgent popularity of the ideal of productive self-sufficiency, and the unequal impact of automation and AI – have renewed interest in how work might be valued, compensated, and organized differently. The moral issues raised by these changes are not new, however, and we would benefit from revisiting the long history of thinking about ideals of work and its place in the good life. This conference turns to the history of philosophy and political economy for utopian and radical perspectives on work. We will explore how philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms, unions, and labor markets as means of advancing justice, freedom, and virtue at work. In particular, we are interested in insights from these figures that might help to address today’s injustices surrounding work. The conference will conclude with a panel on the overall relevance of returning to utopian and revolutionary thinkers from our past. What (if anything) can we learn from them for the 21st century? Submission Guidelines Each talk will be allotted a total of 40 minutes (approx. 25 minute presentation, 15 minute Q&A) Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to [email protected] by April 15, 2026. We will respond with decisions by May 20th, 2026. Keynote Speakers: Michelle C. Smith(English, Clemson) David Leopold(Political Theory, Oxford) Laurence Davis(Government and Politics, University College Cork) The conference will focus on three major themes: Worker rights and worker control Critiques of domestic labor and domestic servitude The duty to work from a utopian perspective We welcome submissions on any utopian or radical historical figure or movement that addresses one or more of these themes. That could include: Labor, the good life, and the just society in ancient philosophy, for example: the division of labor in Plato’s Republic; Aristotle on work, politics, and leisure; Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen Utopian socialism in the 19th century, including Babeuf, Saint Simon, Owen, Fourier, etc. Feminist proposals for rethinking domestic labor, or the place of social reproduction in the rational society more generally, such as in Kollontai and Tristan Russian radicals and utopians, such as: Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Bogdanov Labor utopias in literature, for instance those of Le Guin and Callenbach Labor utopias in Anarchist thought Marx’s vision of unalienated labor and communism We will also accept a limited number of proposals on the final, meta-theoretical panel topic: ought we revisit these utopian and revolutionary proposals from history for thinking about labor justice today, and what can we learn from them. This event is part of the Ammodo project "The political philosophy of work - expanding our vision" and is organized by Lisa M. Herzog ([email protected]) and Tyler C. Re ([email protected]) at the University of Groningen, Philosophy Faculty. For more information about the project, please visit: https://www.rug.nl/staff/l.m.herzog/project-description.pdf
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