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Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
politics but Federal
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

En un sens, l’élection de Trump entérine, pour le reste du monde, la fin d’une politique orientée vers un but assignable. Ce n’est pas une politique « postvérité », c’est une politique postpolitique, c’est-à-dire, littéralement sans objet puisqu’elle rejette le monde qu’elle prétend habiter.
Bruno LATOUR • Où atterrir ? (Cahiers libres)
Politics may be an important aspect of our lives, but as a source of personal meaning it is disastrous.
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
Persistently for the last twenty years the ideals of order or liberty have dwindled in our books; the ambitions of wit and eloquence have dwindled in our parliaments. Literature has purposely become less political; politics have purposely become less literary. General theories of the relation of things have thus been extruded from both; and we are
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arrangements. Public
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Populism gives life to Michel Foucault’s celebrated reversal of the Clausewitz dictum: Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.