Zsolt Kapelner

Attention, politics, and democracy - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

The conference I've been organizing with Leonie Smith on attention and democratic politics is happening this week at the University of Oslo with a great line-up of speakers: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

Philpapers seems to be down

“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history

“To the Finland Station”: Trump as a tool of history
- by @brankomilan.bsky.social
#USPolitics #Trump
branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-the-fin...

Disgusting

Salience in Society Salience in Society The Nature and Ethics of Collective Attention University of Vienna, 3–4 December 2024

I'm flying to Vienna to talk at this really great event on collective attention and salience in society. I'll present some of my newer work on agenda setting and democratic theory, and I'm looking forward to all these talks, it's a very exciting progamme. sites.google.com/view/salienc...

Screencap of a post: Firstasatragedy • 170d •*• • SPOILER The Paradox of Gilmore Girls and the Sopranos Media In Season 6, episode 4 an episode of the Sopranos, an episode of Gilmore Girls is playing on TV. In Season 7, episode 17 of Gilmore Girls, Richard is wearing a tracksuit. Lorelai makes a joke about it by asking if he's having lunch with Tony Soprano. So obviously this means that both the Sopranos and Gilmore Girls exist as television shows in the other's respective universe. B ut more alarmingly, this means that each universe has now become a televised universe of itself within their own universes. When the Gilmore Girls watch the Sopranos, they will see themselves in the show. Likewise, when Tony Soprano watches Gilmore Girls, he will witness a direct reference to himself. It's like the effect of two mirrors facing each other: the universes of the Gilmore Girls and the Sopranos are infinitely replicated all the way down.

This is the kind of paradox I live for

I would also be really interested in reading this

A Disease of Affluence Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.

I'm not fully sure about the empirical picture here, but as usual, @polphilpod.bsky.social's take has very much intelligence and insight, and I agree with a lot of it. I'm also very dissatisfied with the "abandoned working class" narrative.

Civic Friendship, the Burdens of Politics, and the Ethics of Attention In Philosophizing the Indefensible Shmuel Nili proposes strategic political theory as a productive and respectful manner for political philosophy to engage with unreasonable political views. One objec...

My short piece on Shmuel Nili's book Philosophising the Indefensible, is now published in Analyse & Kritik. Although I was a bit critical, I think this book has really important things to say about engaging with illiberal/unreasonable politics and the responsibilities of political philosophers.

What does democracy look like? “This is what democracy looks like!” is a popular rallying cry of engaged democratic citizens across the globe. It refers to outbreaks of mass political action, episodes where large numbers of citizen...

What Does Democracy Look Like? A new short piece I wrote for the OUP Blog....
blog.oup.com/2024/11/what...

If Books Could Kill Pod The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds

If books could kill... www.ifbookspod.com

Makes me think of Rousseau (B4Ch10-11 of the Social Contract) and Hobbes as well.

Democratic Stability and Backsliding <!--EndFragment--> In light of mounting concerns about democratic backsliding, Rawls’s work – which has an unusual focus on considerations of stability – is now being mined for insights about democratic fragility. This ...

This new piece on democratic stability and backsliding by Ryan Pevnick sounds super interesting.
politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

Frp større enn regjeringspartia samla på NRKs måling for november No peikar heile ein av fire veljarar på Sylvi Listhaugs Frp. Partiet får større oppslutnad enn dei to regjeringspartia Ap og Sp har til saman.

Hva betyr det egentlig for norsk politikk (og hvordan forholder seg denne utviklingen til den globale høyrebølge som vi kan se overalt)? Jeg er fortsatt nykommer her, jeg er ikke helt sikker på hvordan jeg skulle tenke om dette.

... This raises the question of who the great political leaders of the past century were. Under this theory most of the usual candidates (Churchill or whatever) probably wouldn't qualify. Who would, if anyone? And is this the right view? Is there such a thing as a great political leader? Maybe not.

...a great political leader is one who unites people in a way that fosters civic virtue rather than vice, whose charisma (or whatever) enables them to build community and solidarity with each other, and perform their civic duties, eg. of justice, better...

My Norwegian tutor asks the best political philosophy questions. Today we got into talking about what makes a great political leader. It's clearly not just popularity or skill in policy making. We settled on the idea that...

But that's already the case in human society. We are already deeply responsible for and dependent on one another. It is only under a hyper-individualist ideology that this fact becomes hidden from us. Or maybe not, I don't know. And yes, I do have a kid.

People talk about becoming a parent as a 'transformative experience' resetting one's whole outlook on the world. I wonder if that's a late capitalism thing. I guess what's supposed to be transformative is the feeling of deep responsibility for another person and their deep dependence on you. 1/2

I'm really tired today and didn't really feel like doing anything, so I joined Bluesky and practiced my Norwegian philosophy vocabulary. I learned the phrase "dogmatisk slummer"

Philosophy friends!
Do consider submitting something for the upcoming deadline for the British Society for Ethical Theory's 2025 conference.
We have Analysis Bursaries to assist with attendance costs.
Make your paper part of the super program!!
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#philsky

What works for me is youtube or any kind of video resource, it really helps to see what the cooking process is supposed to look like. I think Epicurious has nice beginner videos

I would be very interested in Norwegian cooking resources though.

Zsolt Kapelner, Mutual Service as the Relational Value of Democracy - PhilPapers In recent years the view that the non-instrumental value of democracy is a relational value, particularly relational equality, gained prominence. In this paper I challenge this relational egalitarian ...

Not super recent, but I like this one. I argue that the value of democracy lies in that it allows us to mutually serve each other by creating justice together. philpapers.org/rec/KAPMSA-2