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/383/ Stare into the Abyss with Us ft. Juliano Fiori
🕑 Added 2024-01-16 19:36:53 +0000 UTCOn what comes after human rights.
Juliano Fiori, essayist and director of Alameda Institute, joins us to talk about catastrophism and organising around "the end". We discuss:
- What was humanitarianism, and why was it the "last utopia"?
- What does humanitarianism look like in an era of multipolarity?
- Does Western liberal democracy have any gas left in it? What should we defend?
- What politics are generated by the prevailing sense of anxiety and melancholia?
- If modernity is over, do we need to reject all progressivism?
- And how do we orient around catastrophe without falling into the trap of emergency politics?
Links:
- "Notes on our Melancholy Present" in Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, Juliano Fiori
- Towards a strategic catastrophism - a radicalism for catastrophic times, Juliano Fiori
- About Alameda
Comments
Aufhebunga Bunga
I've been thinking about this and I'm not sure we've done a dedicated episode on it, more that its an analytical point that has recurred (as it's an important point). It was explored in the interview with Russell Jacoby, if you want to look that up (340/341). But maybe we should do a proper episode on it!
joppe
In what episode have you been discussing the disappearance of the bourgeois subject and it being replaced with the vulnerable subject? It was mentioned in this interview somewhere around 35min.
Ellen Anderson
We might think of depaving as the new focus of urban planning.
