In this interview, the philosopher Mark Devenney, professor at the University of Brighton and co-director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (Cappe), discusses the scope and limits of populist theory within post-foundational and post-Marxist thought. He distinguishes populism from democracy and argues that democracy must be understood as an incessant practice of equality that destabilises “proper” ways of being, while reintroducing property and colonial legacies as central to the analysis of contemporary political logics. The conversation also turns to recent Brazil, strained between Lulism and the rise of the far right, and to the dilemmas of the left in the face of historical inequality, coloniality and environmental destruction.
This paper attempts to deploy - and adapt - the classical concept of charisma in the context of contemporary populism. The current wave of populisms of various kinds in Western representative democracies throws up challenges for political sociology in understanding how leaders seek to legitimize themselves; for ins...
Thomas Osborne· International Journal of Pol...· 0 citations
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
This article investigates Brazilian modernization by examining the paradoxical tension between the formal expansion of citizenship and the persistence of structural inequalities. Drawing on an articulated reading of Antonio Candido, Florestan Fernandes, and Roberto Schwarz, it argues that the peripheral incorporation o...
This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism that took place between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop in the 1980s. Both authors provide materialist analyses of Thatcherism that p...
Daniel McLoughlin· Historical Materialism· 0 citations
This essay proposes a reading of Carta das Ilhas Andarilhas (1952), by Jacques Prévert and André François, grounded in the tension between utopia and colonization that structures its narrative. Published in the context of the geopolitical reconfiguration of postwar Europe and the rise of independence movements, the wor...
Daniela Spinelli· Revista de Estudios Utópicos...· 0 citations
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