/366/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (IV)

On polycrisis.

 

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We reflect back on Jurgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis as a whole, having gone through it section by section in previous episodes, before exploring what the idea of 'polycrisis' is about. Everyone from Adam Tooze to the FT to the World Economic Forum think we're in a polycrisis. How does this notion compare to Habermas' understanding of crisis? 

 

We also explore some related themes: cynical ideology and how it deflects criticism; whether we are more or less individualised today, and how you can have less collectivism and less individualism at the same time; and the difference between crisis and emergency.

 

Links:

• Why the West's elites invented a permacrisis, Thomas Fazi, Unherd
• Welcome to the world of the polycrisis, Adam Tooze, FT 
• Year in a word: Polycrisis, Jonathan Derbyshire, FT 
• On the crisis of crisis: /327/ Capitalism on Edge ft. Albena Azmanova 
• On the structural reasons why the regime survives: /246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber