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Okay so I thought it would be cool to map out the postliberal scene. I'm using the term broadly and am not implying we're all some formal organisation. Postliberalism has the heritage of the neoabsolutist movement so mapping out those people would be best first.
The man who created neoabsolutism was @CBonduk drawing upon the social critiques of Alaisdair MacIntyre and the work of Bertrand De Jouvenel and Robert Filmer to draw new notions of sovereignty, politics and other issues. he wrote at https://reactionaryfuture.wordpress.com/ and went on to make
the Journal of neoabsolutism. …https://thejournalofneoabsolutism.wordpress.com/ and the neoabsolutism blog. https://neoabsolutism.wordpress.com/author/neoabsolutism/ and then went on to publish a book on the Jouvenelian mechanism at @ImperiumPress
There were also, like in the precursors in Nrx, Catholic undertones in Bond, due to his influence of MacIntyre and recognition of the nominalist origins of individualism. The excellent shitposter @TAJackson20 and anime enthusiast @arrus_kacchi are both more of this persuasion.
@apex_pl is also of this persuasion but more peripherally, drawing more upon Charles Taylor and more focused on finance and economics generally. But beyond this Crx 2.0 there is a whole new strain of thought which this movement produced.
Bond turned his eye to the anarchist anthropology of liberalism and turned to the work of Generative Anthropology for an alternative. It's not entirely clear whether Katz reached out to Bond or Katz first because Katz was also dissatisfied with the liberal interpretation of GA.
In any case this allowed huge innovations in terms of how we understand sovereignty, capitalism, history, language, media studies, and how they relate to political issues currently. Katz remained obscure due to many of the key concepts being dispersed among many blog posts.
But he ( @bouvard38829538) eventually centralised all the core ideas and wrote them in his book, published again @ImperiumPress Where he tackles the moral incoherence at the heart of liberalism which is produced by a crisis of the levels of https://www.imperiumpress.org/product-page/anthropomorphics
language itself, as well as sketching a way towards a solution he also deals with history very effectively, looking at the increasing metacognition throughout it. And reworking some of the problems in Gans' account of GA too.
Since then I, and others at the postliberalism server have broadly split into three groups as of now, although we all get along well. The first group (myself included) are working on various aspects of theory, drawing upon continental philosophy.
@Dick71224996 is the main man here. We're not just a continental philosophy club though there are aspects of political-economy and meta political translation we're working on, and there are real projects going on.
The second group which has Chonsa, and @UuberR_ are working on the postliberal narrative project https://postliberalnarratives.wordpress.com/ and Chonsa had previously worked on the postliberal glossary https://theglossary.home.blog/2020/06/27/postliberal-diction-study/
And finally I would be remiss not to mention the founder of the movement in many ways @Imperius__13 who is currently working on pedagogical materials for GA and has his own project in political modelling. There's a lot going on and much more to come in the future.
