/383/ Stare into the Abyss with Us ft. Juliano Fiori (Patreon)

On what comes after human rights.

Juliano Fiori, essayist and director of Alameda Institute, joins us to talk about catastrophism and organising around "the end". We discuss:

• What was humanitarianism, and why was it the "last utopia"?
• What does humanitarianism look like in an era of multipolarity?
• Does Western liberal democracy have any gas left in it? What should we defend?
• What politics are generated by the prevailing sense of anxiety and melancholia?
• If modernity is over, do we need to reject all progressivism?
• And how do we orient around catastrophe without falling into the trap of emergency politics?

Links:

• "Notes on our Melancholy Present" in Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, Juliano Fiori
• Towards a strategic catastrophism - a radicalism for catastrophic times, Juliano Fiori
• About Alameda