Artun FaliroAnother, democratic, world is possible. With structural change and collective action grounded in critical theory, queer ecology, and historically informed action in the long now.
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TinDrumNancy Fraser on Habermas
'My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise ‘critique with an emancipatory intent’ but from whom I eventually had to distance myself'
#frankfurtSchool #habermas #philosophy #nancyFraser #marxism #criticalTheory #literature #bookstodon
Naomi Klein: "One of the things that we can learn from Zohran #Mamdani is.. he moonlights as a #history #professor.. actually educating people about radical history, because we don’t learn it in school.. people in Canada generally don’t know the history of #public ownership,”
And "we perform best when we actually have to fight for our ideas."
#publicschools #publichealth #publictransportation
NeuralNew Neural issue #78 Voices, Humans, Machines is hot from the press, a special issue, featuring an exceptional artist intervention: “VOICE_ERASE.PY”, a limited edition poster with code by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner, as well as the Sussura Luce sound art festival catalogue, created in conjunction with the issue.
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Interviews:
Machine Listening
Tomomi Adachi
Erin Gee
Pedro Oliveira
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Manuel GebauerI have never been much interested in Habermas. After what I heard in conversation, radio, or read in newspapers, I always put him as belonging to the liberal establishment. I'm now somewhat surprised that most obituaries showcase him as leftist and representative for critical theory.
#Habermas #CriticalTheory
#Habermas #CriticalTheory
Thomas Meaney on Habermas
'It cannot be stressed enough how far the Frankfurt School of the 1960s was from the Marxism of the interwar period. The ‘Western Marxism’ of Frankfurt prided itself on retaining what it thought was living in the tradition – its dialectical method and style – while discarding its historical analysis, which it blamed for both the dangers of adventurism, from the March Action of 1921 to the Red Army Faction, and the political quietism of a left that passively expected history to work out for it'
benRE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116284528245914761
A similar approach to ‘artybollox’ might be useful but would in no way dissuade participants from enthusiastically pursuing it, since it’s purpose is to assimilate corporate nonsense into a facsimile of critical discourse; which while sufficiently convincing to all willing participants in the uh ‘bait and switch’ is incomprehensible to anyone else - incomprehensible because there is no actively meaning to be had - just an exchange of signage #art #arttheory #artybollox #criticaltheory
PepperberryHonest take: the framework has real limitations worth engaging.
- Selection bias toward confirming cases
- Underdeveloped account of how community choices interrupt the cascade
- Light quantitative engagement
But its integration of moral, epistemic, economic, and eschatological analysis
into one coherent cascade sequence is genuinely rare. Worth taking seriously.
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-12-structural-predictions
#Sociology #CriticalTheory #IslamicStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
- Selection bias toward confirming cases
- Underdeveloped account of how community choices interrupt the cascade
- Light quantitative engagement
But its integration of moral, epistemic, economic, and eschatological analysis
into one coherent cascade sequence is genuinely rare. Worth taking seriously.
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-12-structural-predictions
#Sociology #CriticalTheory #IslamicStudies #HistoryOfIdeas
The 12 Structural Predictions Embedded in Fiqh al-Taḥawwulāt A Civilizational Transition Framework
A rigorous analysis of 12 structural predictions embedded in Fiqh al-Tahawwulat — the Jurisprudence of Transitions — examining how moral, economic, and geopolitical crises cascade toward civilizational change.
'Distinguishing system critique from model evaluation is not a concession to hype: it means focusing on collective benefits and harms rather than individual uses. We can talk about what models cannot or should not do without denying what they *can* do'
#genAI #technology #criticalTheory
https://www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-flocks-and-the-critical-problem-of-useful-ai/
BellingenNSWA capacity for rational dialogue?
“Democracy depends on the belief of the people that there is some scope left for collectively shaping a challenging future.” Jürgen Habermas
"His abiding concern was the state of democracy and the fear of backsliding into the exclusionary and violent social order..." >>
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/books/jurgen-habermas-dead.html
#PublicSphere #PublicDiscourse #communication #dialogue #nationalism #violence #democracy #CriticalTheory
