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Who's the next political philosopher?

anon_pemi said in #2114 1y ago: received

From x dot com:

"What political philosophers will be buzzy over the next few years?

We've got the NYT Schmitt explainer, Dugin had a moment, Guenon/Evola are in the water, so is Sam Francis/anarchotyranny. What's next?"

I would like your thoughts.

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anon_joju said in #2119 1y ago: received

It seems that the Amarnites are reading Kondylis.

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anon_xiqo said in #2120 1y ago: received

I was surprised that Byung-Chul Han, named last month "the internet's new favorite philosopher" wasn't mentioned, but I suppose one can be buzzy in one part of the internet without attracting the attention of another. Maybe he is not a "political philosopher" (but is Guénon, are, also raised in that thread as potential answers, Graeber and Mark Fisher?). These are just observations. I hope Byung-Chul Han won't be the answer.

If I can be as loose with "political philosopher" as the original post, I would like it to be Yuk Hui. Since they come up here, he has engaged with Evola, Guenon, Dugin in interesting ways (you can listen to him in conversation with the only living member of that trio here: https://philosophyandtechnology.network/4000/media-technical-issues-with-yuk-hui-and-aleksandr-dugin/), as well as other former buzzy philosophers of the sector of the internet that the post is concerned with. I would like to see people discovering through him the Black Notebooks and cybernetics, and tracing footnotes to Simondon, Nishitani, and Stiegler.

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