Populism – reflections on the success story of an eclectic notion

2018-12-26

The Aging of Modernity, Crises of Democracy and Rigidification of Urban Social Spaces Lecture Series
Topic：Populism – reflections on the success story of an eclectic notion

Date：2018/12/26 (Wed.)  14:00-17:00
Venue：Room 106A, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus, NCTU   

Speaker：Alain Brossat
( Emeritus Professor at the department of philosophy of Paris 8 University, Yushan Scholars of International Institute for Cultural Studies. )

Abstract
Weak and soft notions are doomed to foster weak and eclectic statements on what they apply to –  here the problems Western-style democracies have today with legitimacy. This is why we shouldn't ask ourselves what populism actually is, but rather what the general conditions are and, in particular, what the discursive conditions are, that make that populism has become such a « powerful word » in the mouth of politicians, journalists, and political scientists.
As Gilles Deleuze said: it's always a bad sign when philosophy (philosophers) begin to think and speak in the same terms and use the same vocabulary as journalists. Conversely, it means that those who look critically at the present should keep at bay the media jargon and promote their own concepts.   

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主辦單位： 國立交通大學/台聯大系統文化研究國際中心、交通大學社會與文化研究所、亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大學系統） 
經費來源： 高等教育深耕計畫─特色領域研究中心計畫：「衝突、正義、解殖：亞際社會批判研究」  

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