In process

De 25/08 a 29/08 de 2025 acontece a IX Semana das Psicologias da UFF – IHS – RPS. O realce em “das Psicologias” atesta não apenas a diversidade e riqueza das psicologias, mas sobretudo...

Continuing the practice, this note represents, revises, and reflects on that which reappears every year, events and memories that should be recalled and reconsidered. I had planned another piece on contemporary Japan, but that can wait.

A Revista Argumentos acabou de lançar um dossiê sobre Michel Foucault, cujo tema é “Vidas Infames e Insubmissas“, com diversos artigos incríveis. Contribuo com o artigo “Medicina mental e medicina orgânica no jovem Foucault:...

The last note shared a manuscript I made available through SocArXiv.org, an open archive for the social sciences: Christopher Hobson, ‘Memes and monsters of the interregnum: Gramsci between the times’, Manuscript, 2025.

I’m planning another note in the impromptu series on Japan, this one is more academic, presenting a paper I’ve written on Gramsci’s over-used line about ‘interregnum’. From kinetic conflicts, geopolitical rivalry, economic imbalances, societal polarisation, energy transitions, environmental destruction, technological transformations and much more, evidence of an order breaking is easy to find.

Following on from the last note, staying in and with Japan, as the recent elections can be a ‘teachable moment’, as we like to say in the classroom. What it speaks to is deepening structural stresses that are exceeding existing modes of governance.

The Spotify version of today’s episode can be found at this link.

After the Lower House elections in Japan last October, I wrote a note that emphasised the mounting and cumulative stresses on the country.

Noel Swanson reviews The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime, by Kian Salimkhani

Um pouco marcado pelas falas de Geoffrey Hinton, fiz o gesto de esboçar um bate-papo com o ChatGPT. Ele foi sobre valor, humanidade e a “visão” da IA sobre os homens. Segue: Pergunta: O...