Thomas Gregersen publicized the schedule for the upcoming Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, "Flaschenpost: Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023," to be held October 6-7, 2023, at Harvard University. Quite a lineup of speakers!
http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/2023/09/harvard-colloquium-critical-theory-at.html
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool

Conference:
"Critical Theory at 100 – The European and American Reception, 1923-2023"
October 6-7, at Harvard University

Participants: Peter E. Gordon, Maxim Pensky, Axel Honneth, James Gordon Finlayson, Rahel Jaeggi, Maeve Cooke, Karen Ng, Espen Hammer, Fabian Freyenhagen, Jay Bernstein, Martin Saar, Martin Jay, Christopher Zurn, Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst, Susan Buck-Morss, Amy Allen, Robin Celikates, and Nancy Fraser.

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023/10/flaschenpost-critical-theory-at-100-conference

#Criticaltheory #Philosophy #Sociology

Aronowitz, Stanley. 1988. Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society.
[My dissertation advisor. 😎 ]
#UntilDarwinBibliography #HistSTM #CriticalTheory #HistSci
https://archive.org/details/scienceaspowerdi0000aron_g0r3

[From the Archive] Book Review: The Postmodern Marx, by Terrell Carver. Pennsylvania State Uni. Press, 1998 (2001)
"...rewards readers by challenging them to think about their most basic assumptions on a subject, exposes them to the latest scholarship, makes the work of Marx come alive with a new vitality, and helps the reader encounter Marx’s work on its own terms and not as the final culmination or degeneration of someone else’s project"
#CriticalTheory #KarlMarx
https://www.academia.edu/267144/Book_Review_The_Postmodern_Marx_by_Terrell_Carver_Pennsylvania_State_University_Press_1998_2001_

What’s Behind the Angel of History?
"Even if Benjamin wasn’t aware of the presence of this engraved image, it enters into his interpretation of “Angelus Novus” at the margins. If Benjamin failed to see this hidden image, what does that say about his visual acuteness. Maybe, however, he saw it but deliberately didn’t discuss it. Or, finally, since the Klee is just an example, maybe this detail doesn’t matter for evaluating his historiographic argument."
#CriticalTheory
https://hyperallergic.com/829171/whats-behind-the-angel-of-history-annie-bourneuf-paul-klee-angelus-novus/

Very remiss of me to assume that a link on academia dot edu could just be opened without going through the rigmarole of opening an account there (which I would automatically refuse if I encountered that obstacle). So here's an open link to the pdf of an essay on philosophical configurations of anomalous experience #Neurology #Migraine #FortificationSpectrum #Coincidence #CriticalTheory #WalterBenjamin #TheodorAdorno #AnomalousExperience #AnomalousPhenomena https://thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2023/09/03/between-fractured-landscape-and-neurological-event-a-philosophical-configuration-of-anomalous-experience/

New on the blog: a famous anecdote from student protests against Theodor Adorno https://philosophyafterdark.com/2023/08/26/student-protests-against-big-ted-adorno/

#philosophy #criticaltheory #adorno

Black feminist Audre Lorde in her now famous essay wrote that 'Black Feminism is not White Feminism in Blackface'. Similarly, Dalit feminism is not Bhramanical feminism. Existing outside the boundary of hegemonic femininity it provides a critique of the many exclusions Dalit and other Indian women face in everyday society and academia.

#DalitStudies
#DalitFeminism
#CriticalTheory
#CriticalPsychology

@gutenberg_org @wikipedia Also it and the Young Hegelian's reviews of it were the subject of the first book by Marx and Engels, The Holy Family. @sociology #CriticalTheory

so i'm going to have to read #MarkFisher 's 'capitalist realism' as I've agreed to co-author a paper where the call for papers includes references to it.

as soon as i turn to the back cover i am immediately confronted by why i have chosen not to read this book so far - three testimonies, one from that reactionary cop fucker #Zizak and another by bobby gillespie.

make it #CriticalTheory but mass market #CriticalTheory

Came across this passage in Stuart Hall's memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands:

'the dislocations, the strangeness within the self [I experienced on coming face-to-face with England] undermined my desire to write creatively. I couldn't do it from within the culture I found myself inhabiting, from within its imaginary geography. Instead I observed everything... This strengthened my critical as against my creative instincts, a shift which is difficult to undo.'

Explains a lot about why some people are creative writers and others critical theorists. And also why the English novel is like it is - it is too often written from within the culture and its imaginary geography.

#novel #criticaltheory #england #creative #culturalstudies #memoir

Dalit scholar and activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd speaks about spritual fascism in India that has demonised Dalit, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist people as outsiders and disruptive forces in the Indian state. At a time when tribal Christian people in Manipur face a genocide his warning against Hindutava are prophetic.

Cite as

Shepherd, Kancha Ilaiah. (2019). Buffalo nationalism: A critique of spiritual fascism. Sage Publications Pvt. Limited. New Delhi.

#Manipur
#DalitStudies
#CriticalTheory

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

Theodor Adorno minima moralia 1945. #criticaltheory #culture #enshittification

@ShmosKnows A similar thing came up in this discussion on #ThisIsHell about family abolition (super interesting conversation and analysis with a brand that’s never going anywhere 😂)

Transcription in alt
#CriticalTheory #capitalism #FamilyAbolition

Does anybody have any suggestions for introductory readings for poststructuralism in general?

Not sure what hashtags to use with this uhhhh #philosophy #criticaltheory

#socialconstructivism #criticaltheory

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/language-the-construction-of-economic-power

On [Hannah] Arendt and the loss of the common world.

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/by-theory-possessed/articles/hannah-arendt-and-the-loss-of-a-common-world

#philosophy #judgement #criticaltheory

"European Journal of Social Theory" (May 2023) features articles on "The Critical Theory of Society":

Regina Kreide - "Social critique and transformation: Revising Habermas’s colonisation thesis"

PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13684310221133029

Klaus Eder - "Pandora’s box: The two sides of the public sphere"

PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13684310221119032

Patrick O’Mahony - "Critical theory, Peirce and the theory of society"

PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13684310221120006

#Criticaltheory #Habermas #philosophy #sociology

Sally Haslanger begins her final talk with a brief summary of the arguments she has developed over the last two evenings, saying that "It may be that we ought to think radcially. But it is a good idea to start on the ground."

#criticaltheory

#France #1968 #FrenchTheory #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Revolution: "Bourgeois history has primarily retained from ’68 the spectacle of the student-led revolts in the heart of Paris: the barricades in the Latin Quarter, the occupation of the Sorbonne, the libertarian sloganeering, and so forth. A significant segment of the intelligentsia, particularly anarchist, Maoist, Trotskyist, libertarian socialist, and Marxian currents, wrote in support of these revolts and often joined them in the streets and the various occupations. Marxist-Leninist intellectuals generally questioned the strategic clarity of the unorganized petty-bourgeois and anticommunist politics of many of the more vocal students, which they criticized for being gauchistes and beholden to the illusory belief in a revolutionary situation.5 At the same time, many of these intellectuals also recognized the youth uprising as an important catalyst for a new phase of class struggle, and they stalwartly supported the mobilization of workers.

These different segments of the intelligentsia, as we shall see, were not those that rose to global prominence as major contributors to the phenomenon known as French theory.6 On the contrary, those marketed as the ’68 thinkers—Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Pierre Bourdieu, and others—were disconnected from and often dismissive of the historic workers’ mobilization. They were also hostile to, or at least highly skeptical of, the student movement. In both senses, they were anti-’68 thinkers, or at a minimum, theorists who were highly suspicious of the demonstrations. Their promotion by the global theory industry, which has marketed them as the radical theorists of ’68, has largely obliterated this historical fact."

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/06/01/the-myth-of-1968-thought-and-the-french-intelligentsia-historical-commodity-fetishism-and-ideological-rollback/