It looks that right now, there are just two possible scenarios: 1)Putin swiftly changes the narrative, declares Martial Law, and transforms his regime...
Putin was surprised by the high level of Ukrainian resistance, resolution, as well as an extent of Western repelling reaction. Thus, for the first few...
I agree that it is the most likely outcome. Putin can appeal to ancient Russian archetypes of 'saving the motherland’ from getting defeated. Further, ...
Likely, there are just three reasonable scenarios regarding the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. First, the compromise will be reached, and things will come...
The article is good. Yet, it explained the current course of Biden’s administration regarding the Ukraine crisis just by the decades of ‘liberal polit...
On the contrary, there are substantial differences: in climate change and the energy sector (Trump’s withdrawal from Paris agreement), in foreign poli...
During the anniversary, Jan 6 has been represented as no less important than 9/11 or Pearl Harbour. It was not simply a stupid exaggeration or a misle...
It is not bad. Yet, unfortunately, Finchelstein exposes fascist lies on the grounds of a common-sense concept of truth. Instead, if the notion of fasc...
The neocons are not in the current administration. But, it looks like you are right and even now American foreign (and others) policies are shaped by ...
About 12 years ago, The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London has developed a cynical strategy of withdrawal from Afghanistan. It co...
If there is not 'a highly controlled and organized fighting force as "The Taliban"', how can you explain their success? And why is the current Afghan ...
No, you do not need to read the essay. Matthew Karp means that we deal now with a new, extremely politicized function of history. You are right, the e...
In our situation, ‘an evolution toward more accurate truth’ is left just for professional historians who can stay protected by relatively stable rules...
It could be interesting to compare the level of concentration of power of the US government with what the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century pos...
I think that history is one of the ways society recognizes and understands itself. It is a kind of social construction. If the politics of the past ha...
‘The Task of the Translator' central theme is the relation between the original and a copy, or the origin and its outcome. Benjamin asserts that the c...
In principle, our perception of the social and political realities, and the facts used in acute political debates are not directly related to our firs...
In the article, incivility is firstly defined as anger, as an act of outrage. https://socialtextjournal.org/eleven-theses-on-civility/ "Incivility is ...
Your answer shows that you misunderstand my question and my apprehension of the concept of desire. I do not care about your mental health; it is none ...
iIn principle, we need to determine if Zizek's line of thought still could be relevant. Zizek offered a particular model of a political unconscious. D...
Good points! Yet, the escalation of the anti-Israel rhetorics requires additional explanation. I would like to bring my previous post that could help ...
It is worth clarifying how the debate in this thread is unfolding. There is one side, so-called "pro-Israel," pointing out various dimensions and comp...
But why? Why did so many people vote for Trump despite all his lies? One of the widespread approaches to the freedom of speech has a few premises. Fir...
For a few reasons, the discussion here could become vague and unproductive. Without the exact context, the current government vs. universities confron...
I agree that I could miss a few critical nuances. No doubt, what is unfolding right now possesses the features of an event. It is unpredictable, and i...
This event indicates well the resilience of the financial gambling system. Las-Vegas is closed due to COVID-19, but its model of business has become u...
There are attempts to frame an unprecedented situation that has unfolded over the past week as class warfare and even Reddit's retail investors' reven...
It is the well known argument of Foucauldians. Yet, there are the unanswered questions regarding contemporary forms of resistance: what makes it possi...
I do not think that there was a reconciliation between Foucault and Deleuze. As well known, Deleuse declared in “Postscript on Control Societies” that...
It looks like you try to avoid the discussion of the problem of resistance by redefining it as a way of appropriation and ‘condensation’ of power. May...
I agree that under certain circumstances reading and re-reading Foucault's texts can become an act of resistance. Foucault's insistence on the omnipre...
In a broader perspective, we could see the processes of appropriation and redeployment not just of Foucault's discourse, but of a vast spectrum of dis...
I agree.I think that Foucault's turn to parrhesia was a way to represent his situation. In parrhesia, the speaking subject's truth-telling has a doubl...
I feel that I need to come back to answer your post and to discuss time again. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/9913/introducing-the-philosop...
This is how Deleuze and Guattari describe our 'moment to moment experience in terms of an ongoing self-integrity through self-transformation' :smile: ...
I still do not understand why you claim that “The point where Derrida steps in is before you get to start with your structures and then show how they ...
I do not know if Derrida himself developed an expanded theory based on his insights: "Rather than oppose citation or iteration to the noniteration of ...
The best way to answer is to turn to Derrida’s critique of Austin’s speech acts theory. “Without a general iterability (a general citationality) there...
First of all, in principle, I agree with you that 'They are not two different functions of language,' and I share your view that 'Language is, first a...
Nonetheless, language can also function as "a kind of expressive medium of 'inner states'" in so-called inner speech, an inner monologue, etc. This fu...
Likely, you are not aware of the domain of social psychology, founded by Lev Vygotsky. In his book “Thinking and speech,” he convincingly showed that ...
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