Dugin outlines
Eurasianismin in quite a few places; see his Fourth Political Theory. Can't say I grok all of it (there's a learning curve), but this perspective is linked to what Dugin terms a special kind of "Russian truth" and his ideas on culture.
Whew, thanks for sending the video. Yeah, what a learning curve. Through total intellectual laziness I ignored the Russia issue for the last 10 years, never understood EuroMaidan etc. Now it feels spooky indeed to watch Dugin in black and white video, speaking in "white Sweden" about his old friend Alain de Benoist and the European New Right of the 90's... The video is really worth watching. It lays bare a very old argument about the emptiness of modern liberal individualism, going back to Heidegger, but also forward to the current war. I'd say this Fourth Political Theory is only an early salvo in the new critique of liberalism, mainly because of the entropic or chaotic trends that the US has brought upon itself. To be clear: Washington can no longer keep the lid on its own can of worms, the contradictions of its own mode of development. Upon awakening this morning I was not surprised to see that the EU leaders had gathered in some pompous war room in Versailles to proclaim their remilitarization. The question is whether they can offer a way forward, or just defence of the fortress.
A friend sent me an article a couple of days ago, dismissing Dugin as, yes, a household name in Russia, but not the mastermind of Putin's war (
bit.ly/3CAZZKI). Well, what do they think philosophers do, and what do they think hegemony, in the cultural sense, is made of? It's like dismissing Francis Fukuyama because he wasn't in Bush's situation room during the first Gulf War (Fukuyama's initial article on the End of History was published right on time in '89 btw, and of course the Gulf War didn't happen anyway, as another of our Great Postmodern Thinkers pointed out). I would appreciate more insight into Dugin (both the geopolitical philosopher and the theorist of information war), and into Eurasianism generally. I am at the bottom of the curve...
Modern liberal individualism and its geo-economics are in fact a dead end, at least if the scientists are right about climate change. I think there is another challenge to liberal edifice growing out of the meeting of the latest ecological science and traditional ecological knowledge combined. I am not aware of any philosophy that takes this to the geopolitical arena, but I am probably just ignorant. I mean, there's lots of analysis of the coming collapse - especially from the militaries - but a philosophy of the future? A viable future? Mind you, I don't think it has to be anti-liberal, it doesn't have to be "Destruktion" (the Heideggerean word that got transmuted into deconstruction). Ecology and earth system science evolved out of and beyond the previous determinism and instrumental rationality. Philosophy needs to follow, and at some point, to lead. Again I would love to hear peoples' ideas and references.
best, Brian