@emanuelubert
Assistant Professor @rsmerasmus.bsky.social | Org Learning & Adaptation • (Goalless) Search • Evolution vs. Design • Climate Crisis & Insurance • Cognition, Collective Sensemaking & Social Imagination • Reluctant Utopian • Failing Boddhisatva.
Taleb on how a small, inflexible minority can impose its preferences on everyone else, simply because the majority is willing to accommodate them while they are not.
medium.com/incerto/the-...
Helene Landemore next the cover of her book "Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule"
Talking about her new book, @hlandemore.bsky.social makes the case for politics without politicians: bit.ly/4r6bsKd
𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨’ 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨
𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗲 : 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
Finally listened to it in full. So refreshing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=izDA...
Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
Our paper with Sabina Vaccarino Bremner has just been published! We argue that ideology is a way of making sense of the social world, or more precisely, a way of synthesising and systematising experience into a coherent whole.
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...
...Is Trump's US becoming more despotic? If so, I suspect that an important strategy to destabilize/ derail that order is to drive a wedge between the interests and beliefs of the enforcers and the ruling elite. Thank you EOW 🙏
...So the enforcers need an ideology that makes them loyal to the ruling elite's interests. In a hegemonic regime, the people's consent depends on how their interests are served by the regime. I think historically, the neoliberal capitalist system in the US has been hegemonic.🧵
...coercion & rules prevent drift. In a despotic order, coercion and rules explain why the world continues to be stable; interests & ideology shore them up. So in a despotic world, it's critical that the interests of the enforcers are protected and incorporated into the regime. 🧵
...coercion and rules support the effectiveness of hegemoic order. In despotic reproduction, coercion and rules are the central mechanisms of order; ideology and interests reinforce them. In a hegemonic order, the interests and beliefs of people are what drive the stability of the system; 🧵
I wonder if we are seeing a transition from a hegemonic to a despotic configuration of social reproduction in the 🇺🇸. This matters for the effectiveness of strategies of resistance. In the former, ideology and interests are central mechanisms of reproduction; 🧵
