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About Artemy Magun

Artemy Magun, philosopher, author of "Negative Revolution" (Bloomsbury 2013) and of many articles including "Hysterical Machiavellianism, or the International Non-Relation" ("Theory and Event," 19:3, 2016) and editor of the journal "Stasis."
Latest Posts | By Artemy Magun
The Philosophy of a Democratic Crisis: Between Insiders and Outsiders
5 days ago

The Philosophy of a Democratic Crisis: Between Insiders and Outsiders

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We can speak today of a certain crisis of democracy both as a fact and, more importantly, as a credible value. Authoritarian regimes prove their efficiency, and in many Western …
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Guilt and Humanism
4 years ago

Guilt and Humanism

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What are we guilty of? The rage of war includes accusations, the desire to subdue someone morally, not just physically. We, Russian citizens, are not only surprised and shocked by …
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Us Too: The Virus and “Social Distancing”
6 years ago

Us Too: The Virus and “Social Distancing”

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It often happens that external events look as if they have been predetermined from inside. For instance, Spanish conquistadores came and defeated Aztecs when their empire was already crumbling under …
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Dialectics of Moralism

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On the surface, the ongoing wave of denouncing male sexual aggression, and the wave of firing influential people on accusations of such aggression, is not an issue for a philosopher’s …
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