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A lecture delivered by Dr. Tomáš Karásek at the Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
VisitPericulum & Institute of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences would like to warmly invite you to a public lecture by Prof. David Chandler entitled "AI and the Anthropocene"
VisitThe conference seeks to conceptualise change in contemporary knowledge production in a way that transcends the dichotomy between theoretical frameworks that emphasise the role of humans (e.g. pragmatism, cultural sociology, critical realism, Bourdieusian sociology) and those that seek to dissolve the human and/or focus on non-human actors (actor-network theory, poststructuralism, STS, new materialism, transhumanism).
VisitPericulum & Institute of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences would like to cordially invite you to a seminar organized by Prof. David Chandler entitled "Hope in the Anthropocene". Apart from Prof. Chandler, the invited speakers include Dr. Pol Bargues-Pedreny, Research Fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), and Dr. Valerie Waldrow, Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg.
VisitPericulum & Institute of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences would like to cordially invite you to a series of reading groups organised by David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. The second reading group will engage The Interface Effect (2012) by Alexander Galloway. The text for the meeting can be accessed at https://bit.ly/2RWeReh
VisitWe are pleased to invite you to our annual meeting and research workshop taking place at Hollar Building (H215), Faculty of Social Sciences starting at 16:00 on November 1st, 2018.
VisitInstitute of Political Studies invites you to a lecture "AI and Resilience" delivered by Periculum's Advisory Board member professor David Chandler of University of Westminster, who currently holds a position of Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.
VisitDr. Vít Střítecký and Dr. Petr Špelda presented centre's research on the role of banality in terrorist and revisionist propaganda at VOX-Pol’s third biennial conference.
VisitThis paper discusses the question of liberalism and market politics via some ad hoc reflections from the history of socio-political ideas. Today liberalism has become just about synonymous – for proponents and opponents alike – with market liberalism or in the current parlance with neoliberalism. According to this logic, to invoke liberalism at all is to invoke the absolute primacy of markets against just about anything else. This paper argues that this represents a theft of the very idea of liberalism, that the concept of liberalism has been stolen! We need, in short, to rescue the baby from the bath-water. The paper very briefly mentions some strategies for beginning to do this, including those derived broadly from ANT and the anthropology of economic life, and also from some of the reflections of Michel Foucault. Then we take a turn towards history, or at least towards Montesquieu. Drawing on Judith Shklar's notion of the 'liberalism of fear' a different model of liberalism is proposed, one which emphasises its political status not as a market-centred economic ideology but as a variegated historical assemblage based on a principled political scepticism towards the exercise of power. Different strands of liberalism have of course led in different directions in consideration of markets and to different kinds of market politics; the liberalism of fear encourages us to see markets as entangled, for better or worse, in systems of power. Exactly in what ways this is for better or worse is the crucial – but open – question. In attempting to elucidate this perspective the paper focuses on Montesquieu's strand of thinking about the causes and consequences of commerce in history. It outlines some of the ways in which Montesquieu connected the forces of commerce to the restriction of power, especially in relation to what he called despotism. In doing so it joins with Albert Hirschman in recommending the use of historical considerations in assessing contemporary issues; as a means not necessarily of solving questions once and for all but, perhaps more pertinently, for posing them in different ways and thereby hopefully adjusting some of the more static terms of debate with which we are burdened.
VisitA lecture delivered by Dr. Vít Střítecký at the School of Law and Governance, Dublin City University on March 20th, 2018.
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