Far beyond Hegel: Negri’s political thought in times of catastrophe

Antonio Negri moves beyond Hegelian dialectics to rethink contemporary politics. From “Empire” to “Multitude”, his concepts stress antagonism and plurality over historical synthesis. No idealized progress—just conceptual tools to grasp a constantly shifting world.

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/bien-au-dela-de-hegel-la-pensee-politique-de-negri-face-aux-catastrophes-contemporaines/

The core of political philosophy are two questions:

1. How to deal with harms,

2. How to manage the surplus.

Every human group faces the same fundamental problems, from one's friend group deciding where to eat to entire states organizing themselves.

Book review: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
https://links.org.au/late-marx-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism-interview-kevin-anderson

Just out on the internet: 'Virtuelle Realität und Politische Philosophie' ('Virtual Reality and Political Philosophy'), a chapter in the overall highly recommended Companion to the Philosophy of Digitality by Jörg Noller and Karoline Reinhardt.

In German, but in the age of automated translation that might not be much of a challenge anymore.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70086-0_38-1

From Proto-Accumulation to Centralization: Technique, Power, and the Inversion of Accountability

#Finley, #Clastres, #Wittfogel, and #Mumford shed light on #Antiquity: early societies resisted #centralization, but #technicalMastery (#irrigation, #storage) allowed #elites to invert #accountability. The rise of the #State and #inequality stems from this progressive centralization. #History #Power #politics #philosophy #politicalPhilosophy The concentration of power and…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/from-proto-accumulation-to-centralization-technique-power-and-the-inversion-of-accountability/

Silvia Rivera #Cusicanqui (born 1949) is a Bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and theorist. She is emeritus #Professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, #Bolivia, where she taught #Sociology for over thirty years. She draws upon #AnarchistTheory as well as #Quechua and #Aymara #cosmologies.

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#philosophy #politicalphilosophy #colonization #state #domination #injustice #DroitsHumains #feminism #action #poverty

@philosophy@newsmast.community @povertyandinequality @philosophy@a.gup.pe @anarchism

#política #politicalphilosophy
#Anarkya

Deconstructing the State-Market-Technique Alliance: Beyond Historical Fatalism

We should talk relentlessly about the historical alliance between the #state, #capitalism, and #technology. As long as this #megamachine remains unquestioned at its root, no real #awareness or profound transformation is possible. #SocialCritique #RadicalDemocracy #history #philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #politics #ecology M'bor Faye - Untitled (The palaver tree) What we should be discussing…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/deconstructing-the-state-market-technique-alliance-beyond-historical-fatalism/

The Commons: Shared Resources, Living Democracy

#Commons are resources and practices collectively managed, beyond #state and market. From #Cleisthenes to #Ostrom, including #Rousseau, #Spinoza, #Arendt, #Proudhon, and contemporary theorists, they embody the hope of concrete, inclusive democracy. #politicalphilosophy @democracy@newsmast.community @philosophy@a.gup.pe @philosophy@newsmast.community @socialism @democracy@hashtag.place @politics @socialsciences @philosophy@hashtag.place

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/the-commons-shared-resources-living-democracy/

Immanent Legitimacy: When Democracy Is Founded on the Self-Institution of the People

What if true political legitimacy came from below, from collective action and debate? From Cleisthenes to Castoriadis, immanent legitimacy is invented through participation, plurality, and democratic movement. #democracy #legitimacy #politicalphilosophy @democracy@hashtag.place @democracy@newsmast.community @politics @socialism @philosophy…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/immanent-legitimacy-when-democracy-is-founded-on-the-self-institution-of-the-people/

Clastres and the Enigma of Power: Rethinking Politics Beyond the State

What if #domination were not inevitable? #Clastres shows that societies can live without a #State or #hierarchy. Faced with #TechnicalCentralization and bureaucracy, it is urgent to invent new forms of #democracy, from #commons to #RelationalEcology. #society #social #centralization #bureaucracy #philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy @philosophy@a.gup.pe @philosophy@newsmast.community What Clastres…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/clastres-and-the-enigma-of-power-rethinking-politics-beyond-the-state/

Improving human beings to make them perform better: Why is transhumanism so harmful?
#Humans #TransHumanism #TechCriticism #Bioethics #Capitalism #HumanEnhancement #Sociology #Humanity #SocialProgress #PoliticalPhilosophy #Ecofeminism #FutureOfHumanity
https://the-14.com/improving-human-beings-to-make-them-perform-better-why-is-transhumanism-so-harmful/

A book I want to reread is C.B. Macpherson's "The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism".

#PoliticalThought #PoliticalTheory #PoliticalPhilosophy #CBMacpherson ##DemocraticTheory #PossessiveIndividualism #Canada #Liberalism #Socialism #CanadianIntellectuals #CanadianThought

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction… and the distinction between true and false… no longer exist.”
— Hannah Arendt

https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/explaining-hannah-arendts-origins-of.html?m=1

Hannah Arendt discussed a new type of government, totalitarianism, in detail. She warned that loneliness can lead to totalitarianism, a government with a ruling ideology that uses terror to accelerate its ideological goals. She warned that the potential for totalitarianism still exists today.

You can read more about her on my blog post:

https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/explaining-hannah-arendts-origins-of.html?m=1

The Freedom Trap: How Our Obsession with Being "Left Alone" Is Making Us Less Free

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17117146/

We've got freedom all wrong.

And it's making us more vulnerable than we realize.

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Episode Links

Youtube
https://youtu.be/L1C9QuhjOcw

Substack
https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-freedom-trap 

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