Here I am 9 years later and Marxism is alive and well. Much to my dismay.

"The King is in the altogether But altogether, the altogether He's altogether as naked as The day that he was born”

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West oriented research hain..

Bro where is lecture #8?

This is fantastic. I wonder if anyone here can recommend a book or source that covers the main topics taken here?

Great lecture, thank you.

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This great and so neatly concise

Eric Clapton is god. He took the vaccine and lost the use of his hands.

Notes from the slides: Gerard van der Ree: Lecture 9: Critical Theory Problem-solving theory: sustaining order vs. Critical theory: changing order Origins of Critical Theory Mostly Neo-Marxism Brought together in the Frankfurt School: 1930s and 1940s Draws from Marxism the idea of superstructure Capitalism is also cultural and social: ideology of material practices Critique of Enlightenment Problem: Age of Enlightenment Focused on Reason, Science, emancipation, individual freedom In practice, seems to bring contradictory outcomes Direct cause: totalitarian regimes and WWII Came out of technology, science, modern state, etc. Enlightenment can produce horrible outcomes Apparently there is something wrong with the Enlightenment Something we cannot see properly As we mostly narrate its positive sides Starting point of analysis We want to produce change in the world ‘Problem-solving’ won’t do it We need a more radical form of change Our knowledge is always contingent We cannot know outside of our own historical and cultural context Knowledge is ‘situated’ As a consequence, ‘where wen speak from’ is important As a consequence, the only methodology open is self-reflection Using our individual experiences as entry-points for our ‘situatedness’ Reflecting on ‘the limits of our knowledge’ The way in which certain social arrangements are ‘naturalized’ Knowledge and politics For critical theories, all knowledge is political Includes science, art, engineering Thus, whatever we take to be ‘normal’ is a political order Which is partly invisible to us “Fish cannot see the water they swim in” Reification: our ‘forgetting’ of the social construction of reality Which makes ‘normality’ generate winners and loser; injustice and violence But: our knowledge production is also always political And can be used ‘against’ the dominant order Stephen Gill Studies the politics of globalization As a set of practices that are embed with power ‘Market civilization” The Neo-liberal order we live is in a disciplining order Leads to commodification As well as self-regulation through market mechanisms We are constantly regulated into a state of consumption Important aspect: what do we do? In what ways can we resist this order? Looking for strategies that do not replicate the problem Andrew Linklater Focuses on the question of ‘harm’ In what ways has our civilization us to deal with harm in a better way? International orders come with their own perception of harm Making some kinds of harm visible, and others invisible Some to be resolved, others not For instance, ‘war on terror’ has de-civilized whole categories of people Making harm against them a non-problem And making us the ‘harmers’ rather than the ‘harmed’ Solutions cannot be found in rationality Which is part of the problem We need to return to emotion- being able to feel Daniel Levine Argues that IR lost its ‘vocation’ We constantly forget our concepts and theories are constructed And therefore thinking we have access in the ’things in themselves’ We should ‘chastise our reason’ Through self-reflection and comparison with our ‘others’ This way, we can build a ‘sustainable critique’ Interwoven with empirical knowledge and expertise This way, IR can re-find its ‘vocation’ ‘Addressing the main political problems of our era’

please can you add the reference because i wanna to make presentation the university wants me as assignment.. if you can tell me its good for me .

Problem with this is you pull one card your house falls

I appreciate your effort with the heart of my heart. Thanks

Thank you :)

Are meta-narratives the reason for institutionalization? Is the phenomenon in question here that of ingrained attitudes and presupposed metaphysical structures which are postulated to overarch over a relative context and thus exist as the lived out categorizations and roles of individuals and of the overall milieu?

Really pretty good way of explaining. Thank you

The best video I found on the topic.

That's the best abridged version of this topic in under 45 minutes!!

Thank u

briefly explain the critical and problem-solving theories according to Cox. How does he propose we understand social orders instead? what would be the answer for this ?

Thank u very much Sir

Thanks your perspective was enlightening

commendable lecture. thank you sir

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Good information and helped me a lot but really hard to concentrate when you stop speaking/change tone after every word

I am consistently confused as to why within IR theory there is such an emphasis on how our social environment influences our behavior, yet there is absolutely no acknowledgment of how our biological framework impacts our decision making and behavior, with it being just as intruding to the actor's behavior as say the cultural environment. Why is this the case?

more than great all of my best regards

You are amazing!

Thanks!

excellent. could you please introduce me some recourses regarding game theory in international relations?

So so great! Loved this! Thank you for explaining this complex theory well!

VERY USEFUL LECTURE.

Great lecture but I'm kind of disappointed when the baudrillard point got explained , all I heard were the same clichés throwing off at baudrillard time and again , the gulf war , reality disappearing , for media purposes only , for god sake it would have been more interesting to hear why baudrillard said those things in the first place, it would have been more insightful to learn how baudrillard used saussure mRoland Barthes and Foucault to build a semiotic theory analyzing late neoliberal capitalism , complementing that of Marx in order to dismissing him completely later. anyways great talk

Finally a good explanation of critical theory. My professor took 15 weeks to not get close to this level of accuracy. Well done! I will be sure to share this with the rest of my class!

So clearly set out, thanks so much for these lectures!

Thanks

I wasted all that time reading a book that rambles on and on and on and on and on and doesn't explain anything, when I could have just come here and listened to this lecture. Oxford books are the worst by the way! The worst. American books are just so much better

Great.

You're telling me that academics actually get paid to come up with this garbage?

what is the difference between liberalism and idealism?

women are spared along with children, you will see when the news report some attack they will say "including women and children" meaning killing men is normal but women are equalized with children and killing them is worse then killing men. This is a kinda a privilege woman have that comes from their inequality. If women want to fight for equality they need to adress and fight against their own privileges.

Actually men make the biggest victims of war.

My first lecture on Critical Theory and this video makes so much sense! Thank you for your effort!

Thank you very much Professor van der Ree. You have helped a very anxious Norwegian who has attempted to get a grip on poststructuralism and Focault for a year now.