Judith Butler, "Democracy and the Future of the Humanities," 04/12/2024 Dec 23, 2024 This video is an edited version of Judith Butler's talk, “Democracy and the Future of the Humanities,” given on December 4, 2024, during their visit to South Korea. This lecture explores the connection between democracy, imagination, and the humanities. Butler examines how young people's fears about the future - from climate change to economic precarity - reflect a crisis in our collective ability to imagine better possibilities.
The talk argues that democracy requires the ability to imagine alternative futures and the critical thinking skills fostered by the humanities. Butler analyzes how anti-democratic movements often construct phantasms that scapegoat vulnerable groups while simultaneously attacking higher education and intellectual inquiry.
Butler connects these themes to questions of whose lives are considered grievable in our society, arguing that grief and recognizing interdependency are essential for true democracy. The lecture concludes by defending the humanities as crucial for developing the "collaborative imagining" needed to address current crises and envision more equitable futures.
This timely discussion brings together political theory, cultural criticism, and defense of humanistic education to address urgent questions about democracy's future in an age of rising authoritarianism and environmental crisis.
Judith Butler, "Democracy and the Future of the Humanities," 04/12/2024 Dec 23, 2024 This video is an edited version of Judith Butler's talk, “Democracy and the Future of the Humanities,” given on December 4, 2024, during their visit to South Korea. This lecture explores the connection between democracy, imagination, and the humanities. Butler examines how young people's fears about the future - from climate change to economic precarity - reflect a crisis in our collective ability to imagine better possibilities.
The talk argues that democracy requires the ability to imagine alternative futures and the critical thinking skills fostered by the humanities. Butler analyzes how anti-democratic movements often construct phantasms that scapegoat vulnerable groups while simultaneously attacking higher education and intellectual inquiry.
Butler connects these themes to questions of whose lives are considered grievable in our society, arguing that grief and recognizing interdependency are essential for true democracy. The lecture concludes by defending the humanities as crucial for developing the "collaborative imagining" needed to address current crises and envision more equitable futures.
This timely discussion brings together political theory, cultural criticism, and defense of humanistic education to address urgent questions about democracy's future in an age of rising authoritarianism and environmental crisis.
BY برگزیده فایلهای فرهنگی و علوم انسانی-اجتماعی به زبان انگلیسی
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On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. READ MORE
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