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Yao Lin 林垚
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Philosophy. Political Theory. Comparative Politics. Law.
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短论一则 dikaioslin.blogspot.com/2025/10/femi...
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My article, "Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience", is finally online (and open access) at the International Feminist Journal of Politics! The abstract might read a bit... abstract, but I assure you it's more intuitive than it looks. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ABSTRACT This article redresses the neglect of interregimatic solidarity – solidarity between collective anti-oppression struggles in purportedly antithetical regimes – in transnational feminist scholarship. I argue that authoritarian and demostatist regimatic contexts of oppression give rise to regimatically distinct oppressive kinds, which track their regimatic subjects of oppression respectively, and that this fact significantly increases the risk of interregimatic missolidarization in lieu of interregimatic solidarity. In response, we need to cultivate antiauthoritarian resilience, which is both an epistemic and a moral virtue. Epistemically, it helps us to navigate a world characterized by the dynamics of authoritarian spillover, demostatist sellout, imperial standoff, and capitalist scaleup, to comprehend how regimatic oppressions are interconnected, and to appreciate the practical import of interregimatic solidarity. Morally, antiauthoritarian resilience helps us to discern and discard moral parochialism and cynical moralism, both of which impede the exercise of interregimatic solidarity. I conclude with tentative thoughts on when, for whom, and to what extent interregimatic solidarity is morally obligatory, if its realization depends on cultivating the virtue of antiauthoritarian resilience.
September 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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my forthcoming paper on the nature of philosophy philpapers.org/rec/LINPAA-10
Philosophy as a Normative Discipline Yao Lin Philosophy (forthcoming) Abstract Bernard Williams contends that philosophy is part of a broader humanistic enterprise of “making sense of” ourselves and our activities, including the activity of science. Whereas the scientific enterprise purports to offer an absolute conception of the world as it is (independently of any local perspective on it), the humanistic enterprise cannot disengage itself from the contingent history of our ideas upon which it operates. While I agree with Williams that philosophy should be more attentive to history, his account of philosophy, from which he derives this conclusion, is fatally flawed, being unable to meet three perennial challenges to any principled defense of philosophy as a discipline: i.e. the questions of authority, incubativity and peculiarity. Those challenges can be met only if we understand philosophy not as a humanistic discipline that is part of the broader humanistic enterprise, but as a distinctively normative discipline that tasks itself with finding answers to explicitly or implicitly normative questions, in contrast to various scientific and humanistic disciplines of descriptive inquiry. In this paper, I argue for the equivalence of philosophicality with normativity, explicate the theoretical and practical implications of the normative account of philosophy, and defend it against potential objections.
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I have a paper forthcoming in American Political Science Review, contesting Wang Yuhua's previous APSR paper on the causal mechanism of partisan support for Wang Anshi's reform. Read the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Is Blood Thicker Than Water(-and-Earth)? Partisanship Geography in Imperial China and the Limits of Quantitative History (Forthcoming in American Political Science Review)
June 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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《催稿拉黑》上新（上旧？） open.spotify.com/episode/7wy5...
June 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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《催稿拉黑》新录音两期：
批判性思维 open.spotify.com/episode/3NM8...
对工作说不 open.spotify.com/episode/7a3E...
May 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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the preprint version of my article, "Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience" (forthcoming in International Feminist Journal of Politics), is available at philpapers.org/rec/LINISA-3
This paper redresses the neglect of interregimatic solidarity—solidarity between collective anti-oppressive struggles in purportedly antithetical regimes—in transnational feminist scholarship. I argue that authoritarian and demostatist regimatic contexts of oppression give rise to regimatically distinct oppressive kinds, which track their regimatic subjects of oppression respectively, and that this fact significantly increases the risk of interregimatic missolidarization in lieu of interregimatic solidarity. In response, we need to cultivate antiauthoritarian resilience, which is both an epistemic virtue and a moral virtue. Epistemically, it helps us navigate a world characterized by the dynamics of authoritarian spillover, demostatist sellout, imperial standoff and capitalist scaleup, comprehend how regimatic oppressions are interconnected, and appreciate the practical import of interregimatic solidarity. Morally, antiauthoritarian resilience helps us discern and discard moral parochialism and cynical moralism, both impeding the exercise of interregimatic solidarity. I conclude with tentative thoughts on when, for whom and to what extent interregimatic solidarity is morally obligatory, if its realization depends on cultivating the virtue of antiauthoritarian resilience.
April 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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《E.37 一个是陀粉依旧，一个是脱粉已久 Loving and Hating Dostoevsky (2021.11.22)》 open.spotify.com/episode/4qUD...
April 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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两个月前接受“学人Scholar”的采访，昨天上线了： mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Y0NeY5efWy... 标题是《美国困局的草蛇灰线，在几十年前就已经埋下了》，不过美国政治只是采访内容中很小的一部分，主要其实是在聊关于学术和公共参与的问题。
April 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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open.spotify.com/episode/5hcf...
《催稿拉黑》的听众朋友们好，今年1月22日，我和播客《残言片语》的主持人、残障议题研究者谢仁慈连线，聊了聊安乐死与残障权益之间错综复杂的关系。这期节目已经在《残言片语》上线，我在这里做个备份。《残言片语》是一档从残障视角观察和探讨社会话题的播客，在当代中文公共讨论中极为稀缺，强烈推荐大家关注收听。
March 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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《时差》播客恢复更新！这一期聊的是主播之一郭婷的新书，也是“时差四人组”的第一部英文专著： Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China www.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...
March 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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超级内耗的袁老师为了一碟醋（转发澎湃几年前对我的一篇采访）包了一整桌饺子（写了篇一万五千字的长文），连带着我也花了几天时间给她打厨房下手（帮她改错字改病句）。大家不赶紧趁热吃完这桌饺子的话，可就太对不起她（也对不起我）了，哈哈哈。https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QODG-4GG80RUfp7dBMW8XA
December 4, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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程炼老师昨天去世后，从友邻那里看到了程老师的学长李喆以前写的系列回忆文章：《徐孩子和程孩子》https://wenxuecity.com/blog/202310/71805/4000.html 和过去从几位老师那里零零碎碎听到的经历相互引证，令人感慨良多。其中有个历史细节，是我过去不曾注意到的，不知实际影响是否有作者说的那么大：
December 1, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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我家领导给拙著写了篇书评🥰 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/k2NG51OlkR...
November 28, 2024 at 5:36 AM