The Subconscious Signature: We have arrived at an important point in tune with collective time.
#Awe #CollectiveEthicalPatience #ConflictResolution #CriticalTheory #CriticalThinking #Liberation #Ontology #TheSubconsciousSignature #Theology #CollectiveAction #community #consequence #Empathy #selfhood #Taurus #Time #togetherness #UnitedStates #Utopia
De keuze is simpel:
❌ Doorgaan met Amerikaanse afhankelijkheid
✅ Kiezen voor Europese digitale soevereiniteit
Tijd dat Nederland van Spanje leert: digitale autonomie is een politieke keuze, geen technische onmogelijkheid.
#CriticalTheory #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #DisconnectCollective
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The Subconscious Signature: We have arrived at an important point in tune with collective time.
#Awe #CollectiveEthicalPatience #ConflictResolution #CriticalTheory #CriticalThinking #Liberation #Ontology #TheSubconsciousSignature #Theology #CollectiveAction #community #consequence #Empathy #selfhood #Taurus #Time #togetherness #UnitedStates #Utopia
@remixtures
Um Geschichte eben nicht als Höher- oder Weiterentwicklung zu begreifen, sondern als andauernde Katastrophe, reicht es aus, sich an gestern zu erinnern und einen Blick auf morgen zu werfen; Tag für Tag, Stunde um Stunde, jeden Augenblick.
"This chapter reconsiders the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory’s, and particularly Theodor W. Adorno’s, theories of antisemitism and racism in light of recent debates about global memory of the Holocaust vis-à-vis other genocides and forms of racialized and colonial violence. It reconstructs how the first-generation critical theorists came to recognize the significance and distinctiveness of modern antisemitism through their own experience of persecution as Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, but by the 1960s came to see ‘Auschwitz’ in a global and comparative framework of history, memory and social theory. This chapter thus contests interpretations of Adorno as defending an exclusive focus on the Holocaust and antisemitism at the expense of other historical events with which he repeatedly claimed they were joined in a ‘hellish unity’ as part of the ‘permanent catastrophe’ of the same modern capitalist social order, including the Armenian genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima, war atrocities in Vietnam and ‘torture as a permanent institution’. Instead, it argues for reading Adorno as advancing what Michael Rothberg (2009) has called ‘multidirectional memory’ of antisemitic violence and the Shoah, and for using the understanding of social pathologies arising from these traumatic histories to advance ‘differentiated solidarity’ between contemporary forms of oppression in order to move beyond national, ethnic and identity-based ‘competitive memory’ that Adorno would have rejected as provincializing the truly universal significance of the Holocaust and the ‘new categorical imperative’ he coined in its aftermath: for ‘unfree mankind … to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will happen’ (1973: 365)."
"Garo’s Marx, une critique de la philosophie, especially since it is situated on the terrain of Marx’s relation to philosophy, is also an implicit discussion of Althusser’s theses (22). Garo’s interpretation indeed goes against Althusser’s more strictly philosophical reading of Marx, his epistemological break, and his minimalization of Marx’s political implications (for more on this, see Garo 2011). Garo shows, rather, that the critique of political economy is at the same time a critique of traditional philosophy and a redefinition of political economy (160), refusing to turn Marx into a philosopher. Marx’s constant critique of philosophy is presented by Garo as the mean and condition of Marxian analysis (289). She also demonstrates the strong continuity within Marx’s oeuvre, despite his constant reevaluations and the evolution of his thought. Her ability to convey the contradictions and ruptures that fill Marx’s works while convincingly demonstrating their strong continuity is indissociable from her commitment to representation as an interpretative through-line.
Marx, une critique de la philosophie is a successful exposition of Marx’s thought, as the work manages to skillfully combine the presentation of the majority of his major works and important biographical elements with a strong interpretative thesis. Garo aptly covers an impressive amount of primary literature, and the contextual notes she adds breathes new life into an oeuvre too often caricatured or sclerosed. Marx’s thought is, with Garo, filled with political urgencies, acute to socio-historical developments and constantly reevaluated – encouraging us, in turn, to confront our own historical conjuncture."
#Marx #Marxism #Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Althusser #PoliticalEconomy
🧠 What makes a representation "real" in an era where algorithms execute decisions without human interpretation?
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📄 Full text available here:
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/15519614
#AI #Epistemology #StructuralAutonomy #AlgorithmicAuthority #PostReferentiality #AcademicResearch #CriticalTheory #Representation #MachineEthics #SyntacticPower #Legitimacy
"Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it
are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation."
#baudrillard #criticaltheory #pessimism #sociology #philosophy #culturaltheory #socialtheory
Meet #SocialJustice #AI (#SJAI):
It’s an #LLM that has undergone #PostTraining in #VirtueHacking analysis (#VHA), so that it can help us expose hidden agendas, break cycles of escalation, challenge oppressive systems, foster #empathy, find equitable solutions, and generally #advocate for social #justice.
Have a chat with it and get to know it.
Whilst developed on #ChatGPT this method can enhance any capable LLM.
The Philosophy of Byung-Chul Han (2020)
https://newintrigue.com/2020/06/29/the-philosophy-of-byung-chul-han/
#HackerNews #ByungChulHan #Philosophy #Intrigue #2020 #CriticalTheory #ModernThought
Stanley Aronowitz.
On the Origins of Cultural Studies. September 29 1998.
#CulturalStudies #Sociology #CriticalTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec487I1Euww
Patricia T. Clough.
Questions and Conversations [on Cultural Studies]
May 7, 1998
#CulturalStudies #Sociology #CriticalTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxD2gjBJco
Patricia T. Clough.
What Cultural Studies did to Marxism.
March 19, 1998
#CulturalStudies #Sociology #CriticalTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKVyFxmD8Q
Patricia T. Clough.
Psychoanalysis, Autoaffection, & Tele-technology
February 19, 1998
#CulturalStudies #Sociology #CriticalTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFhZzhytQTk
"Here we finally have it: when the critics accuse the university of being some kind of Marxist indoctrination factory, they do not mean that the university is breeding actual Marxists. They believe that too many people come out of college believing that oppression is real and that it is wrong. That’s how DeLuz can call the Palestine protests the product of Marxist indoctrination. But the truth is that people join these protests because they see something happening that horrifies them: the killing of tens of thousands of people by a heavily-armed military backed by the world’s most powerful country. It’s true that this bears a resemblance to Marxism in the sense that Marx, too, looked out at his time and saw a horror: people toiling themselves to death in the “dark Satanic mills” of the British industrial system, people who did almost nothing in their lives but work and whose bodies and minds were being destroyed to produce profit. He saw oppression, just as people look at Palestine today and see oppression. But one needs no “indoctrination” in order to perceive that reality. All it takes is an open mind and a bit of learning, which can be a very dangerous thing to those who would prefer we swallow whatever dogmas we grew up with."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-myth-of-the-marxist-university
#USA #Marxism #CriticalThinking #CriticalTheory #Universities #HigherEd
🔍 New publication | #AI #DiscourseAnalysis #Power
Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Authority
How do algorithms legitimize themselves through language?
This article explores “synthetic authority” and the impersonal grammar of power in AI systems, connecting it to older forms of institutional discourse.
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/15442929
📄 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15442929
#CriticalTheory #Linguistics #DigitalHumanities #GrammarOfPower
"Loren Goldner’s Vanguard of Retrogression: “Postmodern” Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital can be considered yet another attempt to reckon with the superstructural effects of the long downturn. Published shortly before the September 11 terrorist attacks, it brought together articles written between 1979 and 2001. The book went largely unnoticed upon its appearance, garnering at most a handful of citations, but in many ways it is the best of the genre of Marxian interpretations of postmodernism. It is useful to compare Vanguard of Retrogression with some of the other titles listed above. Quite like Jameson, for example, Goldner grounded postmodern ideologies in material transformations in the sphere of production. Unlike Jameson, he did not outsource his economic analysis to Ernest Mandel. For Goldner, as for Harvey, the 1973 crisis marked a turning point in the history of capital accumulation. However, Goldner did not adopt the regulation school’s “Fordist”/”post-Fordist” periodization, instead characterizing it in terms of a switch from formal to real subsumption (or “domination,” to use his preferred translation). Similar to Callinicos, he had political objections to postmodernism. But whereas Callinicos came out of the British tradition of Cliffite Trotskyism, Goldner was influenced by French neo-Bordigism. And although he shared many of Dews’ criticisms of poststructuralist theory, the latter’s perspective was more akin to that of Theodor Adorno, while the former leaned on Leszek Kołakowski.
Early in Vanguard of Retrogression, Goldner remarked that, already by 1971, “a sense of the end of something was in the air.” The sixties, which had seen such upheaval, were over. Ranging effortlessly from politics and economics to philosophy and culture, his account of that turbulent decade in the preface sets the tone for the rest of the book."
http://insurgentnotes.com/2025/04/polemics-against-postmodernism/
#Marxism #PostModernism #Neoliberalism #Crisis #CriticalTheory
This week is National Nursing Week, and yet we can do better in advocating for structural changes that empower nurses. Click the link in our bio to read the latest blog post written by our primary investigator, Dr. Tara Horrill, and her reflections on nursing week 2025!
#nurse #criticaltheory #intersectionality #health #equity #inequity #healthcare #cancer #cancercare #oncology #research #reachelab
@Tattered @christopher @sz_duras
Oligarchy Behind the Mask: Why Western Democracies Must Be Reinvented
🗳️💬 Western societies live under oligarchic rule, not real democracy. Institutions & media serve a small elite, silencing plural voices. It’s time to reclaim collective power and reinvent a living, plural, deliberative democracy! Democracy #Oligarchy #CollectivePower #Pluralism #CriticalTheory Western societies are not true democracies, but oligarchies where…
