This clip from #MyDinnerWithAndre puts me in mind of #CriticalTheory takes on #consumer culture under late capitalism, especially that of #FrankfurtSchool folks, who were studying why the #proletariat would not throw its chains. We have been lured into the mousetrap and caught.
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Starting today: My lecture *Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*.
Join us via public livestream!
Every Tuesday | 14:15–15:45 CEST
Livestream + recording
Interdisciplinary + critical
Info & access: https://rainermuehlhoff.de/en/EoAI2025/
Rainer MühlhoffIntroduction to the Ethics of AI 2025Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff – AG Ethics and Critical Theories of AI – University of Osnabrück.
"The contributions to the Forum refer to Simon Clarke’s ‘two stages of the same project’, as Clarke explained regarding Marx’s work. They make apparent that Clarke’s initial intellectual contributions to the critique of political economy, form analysis, value theory, theory of the state and money were essential to his later understanding of the collapse and metamorphosis of the former URSS State Socialism into a capitalist form, and his analysis of the political implications of such transformation on labour relations, working-class interests and class struggle in Russia, other Eastern European countries, China, and Vietnam."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03098168231171635
New essay by Jürgen Habermas:
“Europe Must Go Ahead with its Integration and Self-Defense” (Reset DOC, open access)
Link: https://www.resetdoc.org/story/habermas-europe-must-go-ahead-integration-self-defense/
"Although the contributions here were written before the events of October 7, it is impossible to read the book outside of the many conflicts that continue to divide the left on the question of Israel and Palestine. At times, the arguments here lack a sufficiently critical perspective on Israel, Zionism and the political economy of occupation. Antisemitism, indeed, exists. There are also antisemitic perspectives regarding the state of Israel and Zionism. In a treatment of the Initiative Socialist Forum (ISF), for example, Stoetzler relates some of the history regarding the anti-Zionism of the Stalinist and Maoist, German New Left (16-17). The politics of antisemitism, however, is also being instrumentalized by defenders of Israeli policy against those who express solidarity for occupied Palestine. Although one does find a differential account of the Frankfurt School’s varying political orientations in regarding Zionism here, too often the treatment of the Palestine question plays into equivocations regarding the politics of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in a manner that reduces all criticism of Israel to pathologized forms of anti-imperialism or anti-capitalism. The uncritical acceptance of an absolute identity of Israeli policy and Jewishness can also be a form of antisemitism, as Braune observes (165). Such equivocation preempts the possibility of enlightened, rational criticism of Israeli policies. Can such a critical perspective that grasps the concrete violence of Israel-Palestine be grasped in its mediation by capitalist society? At times it seems not. Still, the arguments presented here are far from monolithic, and should be considered."
marxandphilosophy.org.uk‘Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism’ by Marcel Stoetzler (ed) reviewed by Charles A PrusikThis volume, edited by Marcel Stoetzler, compiles essays from a range of authors in an effort to develop a critical theory of antisemitism. The book’s rallying cry is best encapsulated by August Bebel’s well-known phrase: ‘Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.’ Against liberal, conservative or traditionally socialist critiques of antisemitism, the authors intend to develop a ‘sustained critique of categories of thought and practice central to modern liberal, bourgeois, capitalist society’ (1). In other words, the contributors move beyond traditional liberal accounts that point to antisemitism as a mere symptom or defect in an otherwise humane and just society, and…
Society Distracted by Off-Camera Spectacle
Hashtags: #CriticalTheory #Neoliberalism #FrankfurtSchool #Journalism #Spectacle #FakeNews #Situationists #Authentic #Photography
"One realizes with horror that earlier, opposing one's parents because they represented the world, one was often secretly the mouthpiece, against a bad world, of one even worse."
Theodor Adorno -- Minima Moralia.
Image: German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, by Leandro Gonzalez de Leon -- Primitivojumento -- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 --Wikimedia Commons
Tune into the Centre for Healthcare Innovation’s (CHI) recorded webinar, “Sharing Circles with Indigenous Cancer Survivors and Elders,” featuring Dr. Tara Horrill, REACHE Lab's primary investigator.
Click the link in our bio!
Philosophie et vérité (1965) - Badiou, Canguilhem, Dreyfus, Foucault, Hyppolite, Ricoeur
#CriticalTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3M0SJ2sJqg
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
Our most effective weapons against AI, and the right wing that has adopted it, may not be strikes, boycotts or the power of dialectics. They might be replying “cringe,” “this sucks,” and “this looks like shit.”
#CriticalTheory #AI #Fascism
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
Second Breakfast: "The War on the Imagination"
By Audrey Watters • 03 Mar 2025 • New York
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-the-imagination/
"We can't automate this work, obviously. It’s not a task or a routine to be engineered. It’s relational, emotional."
Second Breakfast · The War on the ImaginationThere were numerous news items last week about surveillance and algorithmic decision-making in the workplace. These kinds of stories aren’t new, of course. But as Elon Musk has infiltrated the White House, instructing his minions to eliminate as much of the federal workforce as possible; and as the Trump
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”Fromm asserts, then ‘this lag makes freedom an unbearable burden’. It is this freedom from bonds which, according to Fromm, leads to a desire for submission. Authoritarianism constitutes a regressive attempt to resolve the tension between a threatening outside world and a precarious self.”
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Fromm/Adorno/Horkheimer’s post-#fascism analysis from 1950’s sounds eerily similar.
Too similar for comfort. It is happening again.
Freedom is dialectic.
It is not a right or property.
#criticaltheory
The books available in the American Philosophy section of Fordham University Press certainly are "red meat" for MAGAists, e.g., Lara Trout's "The Politics of Survival - Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism".
The provenance of ideals in #CriticalTheory (rational thought about all the ills in the own social background) are worthy of a critical discussion - but better get a copy before books disappear in the abyss of forced ignorance.
Check out the newest publication from our team: an exploration of cancer inequities as issues of social justice. Click the link in our bio to read the article!
Article de Magali Bessone, "Quel genre de groupe sont les races ?" où l'on comprend pourquoi les races humaines qui n'existent pas, ont été intellectuellement construites et existent désormais socialement.
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-raisons-politiques-2017-2-page-121?lang=fr
Hi all! I’m looking for interesting accounts that talk sometimes about #LiteraryCriticism, or maybe other #literature and #CriticalTheory-based accounts. I’ve tried searching for authors I like, but haven’t had a huge amount of luck beyond finding posts. I’m especially looking for #SciFi criticism, but am curious about a lot of other genres too. Some other things I like are #DFW, #MarkFisher, #PKD, #BeckyChambers, #Solarpunk, #Cyberpunk, #Existentialism, #ArabLit, #Metamodernism. TY!
Hello everyone! 
I've just joined the Fediverse, and I chose @zirk.us bc I'm most interested in #literature and the arts more broadly. I also created a #reading account via #Bookwyrm @d-integration, and a Fediverse-supported #blog (launching today) for my writings at @weaver@d-integration.org.
I'm most interested in #SpeculativeFiction, especially #SciFi and the #Weird, #ArabLit, #SocialCritique, #CriticalTheory, #Philosophy, and all things #Surreal and/or #reality breaking.
The REACHE Lab’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Tara Horrill, will present virtually “on Indigenous sharing circles to build relationships, engage people with lived experience, and explore research priorities.”
Tues Feb. 11, 2025 | 12 – 1 p.m. (CST)
Register today via the link in our bio!
Feb 4th is World Cancer Day, and the theme is “United by Unique.” Equity-denied groups often have unique needs within their cancer journeys that require tailored and equity-oriented approaches to care.
Click the link in our bio for more information and our 2022 publication on equity-oriented healthcare in cancer care!
