Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Out now im @unrastverlag.bsky.social: Meine Übersetzung von Alberto Toscanos (@alfatau.bsky.social) "Terms of Disorder". 11910
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The starting time has been amended to 7pm: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...allard.ubc.caFascism Without the West? With Alberto ToscanoIn what sense can we speak of fascisms outside, or even without the West? And how are these fascisms shaped by the changing forms of “Western” (US and European) imperialism? 031
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On 28 September, I'll be speaking at UBC (in dialogue with Gastón Gordillo and Carol Liao) on "Fascism without the West?" and theories of fascism produced outside and beyond the 'Global North' (from Tosaka Jun to Eqbal Ahmad). 0172
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. @alfatau.bsky.social examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.inthesetimes.comCuba Under SiegeTrump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty. 01814
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Excited to share a teaser for our upcoming winter term lecture series: “Fascist Spaces/Faschistische Räume“ @KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt With: @alfatau.bsky.social @katonymous.bsky.social @unddieregel.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @fmaschewski.bsky.social Dagmar Herzog Details to come! 36624
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meine Übersetzung von Alberto Toscanos (@alfatau.bsky.social) "Terms of Disorder" erscheint in wenigen Wochen unter dem Titel "Interregnum" im @unrastverlag.bsky.social und ich darf heute das Cover mit euch teilen! Vorbestellt werden kann schon jetzt im lokalen Buchladen eures Vertrauens. 💘 1177
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoStuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hey Bay Area friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER in Oakland on Sat 9/19 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there! 12411
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoHistory Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This book has a section near the end called "The Myths of Net Zero and Carbon Removal". Recommended. 0185
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Starting in a week. Readings: Nicole Loraux, Freud, Clausewitz, Etienne Balibar, Lenin, C.L.R. James, Simone Weil, Deleuze & Guattari, Alliez & Lazzarato. Registration closing soon. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...thebrooklyninstitute.comPhilosophy and War - Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchWar is often associated with irrationality: terms like “the fog of war” and “the heat of battle” gesture at the overcoming of reasoned deliberation by rash, emotionally-charged, and libidinal forces. ... 0126
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What is to be undone? How? With whom? Vishmidt teaches us that "there is no opposition between breaking and building." Infrastructural Critique is an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition. --Alberto Toscano Available for pre-order now! 03914
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My translation of (and introduction to) Furio Jesi's 1973 The Blood Libel: The Trial against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany will be out in November with Wirklichkeit Books. wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-blood-li...wirklichkeitbooks.comWirklichkeit Books - The Blood LibelFurio Jesi The Blood Libel The Trial against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany[::cut] Translated and int 0186
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Some reflections on the psychopathology of settler-colonialism and its fascist echoes, via Memmi, Racine, Abdaljawad Omar and André Bazin. communispress.com/the-nero-com...communispress.comThe Nero ComplexDiscerning how usurpation morphs into a new kind of psychic and ideological legitimacy. 0134
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoThe Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs! 01312
Reposted by Alberto Toscanobasit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026the language of fortitude and even heroism: yes 042
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026e-flux has published an excerpt from Rebecca Comay's wonderful On Persistence, which has just been published by Seagull Books, and which I was honoured to write an afterword for. www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...e-flux.comOn Persistence - Notes - e-fluxRebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness. 1164
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026perfect occasion for a reminder that Toscano's 'Terms of Disorder' will be out in German in October! unrast-verlag.de/produkt/inte... @unrastverlag.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.socialunrast-verlag.de 141
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 02/07/2026The Northeast is sweating through a dangerous heat dome. Meanwhile, climate politics keeps circling around geoengineering instead of the urgent task: stopping emissions at the source. @alfatau.bsky.social speaks with Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social on fossil capital & climate politics.inthesetimes.comThe Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate PoliticsScholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital. 0169
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/07/2026Trump has no coherent endgame, no easy off-ramp, and no solid allied consensus behind him. That’s how endless wars deepen. @alfatau.bsky.social on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, state collapse and unending violence across the region.inthesetimes.comThe Axis of ChaosThe U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region. 0186
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026new Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...communispress.comMyth, Fascism, and the DialecticOn myth’s modern return under the cruel mask of fascism, and the reversion to the ritual of human sacrifice. 26521
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/06/2026At Prairieland, federal prosecutors turned an anti-ICE protest into a terrorism case, with defendants now sentenced to decades in prison. @alfatau.bsky.social writes that the target is not just “antifa,” but mass opposition to deportation regimes, racist policing and authoritarianism.inthesetimes.comAntifa EverywhereAs Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean? 13513
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoThe Real News Network @therealnews.com · 17/06/2026“This idea that you’re trying to gain popular consent, you’re trying to win elections, you’re trying to create coalitions by promising a certain degree of force exercised against a target population,” says Alberto Toscano (@alfatau.bsky.social)therealnews.com'Gaining consent by promising force': Late fascism and Gramsci"This idea that you're trying to gain popular consent, you're trying to win elections, you're trying to create coalitions by promising a certain degree of force exercised against a target population,”... 0157
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoOccupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A Cobb County judge threw out state felony charges against Stop Cop City activists today, finding due process violations by the Georgia Attorney General. After years of repression, the state’s campaign to criminalize dissent loses another round. weelauneethefree.org/state-felony... 16319
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“Just as the immense violence of the American imperial State can be understood both as a function and as a symptom of its decline, the extraordinary concentration of capital and repressive power is also haunted by its own sense of precariousness.” communispress.com/vectors-of-f...communispress.comVectors of FascismThe fish rots from the head down: A fascism endogenous to the liberal State. 14211
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoPablo Elorduy @pelorduy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026E. 5 Tambores de Guerra. Cpn Ruth Ferrero, Evgeny Morozov, Pedro Ramiro, Miquel Ramos, William I. Robinson, Emmanuel Rodríguez, Olga Rodríguez, Fabian Scheidler, Patricia Simón, Alberto Toscano e Irene Zugasti. elsal.to/48292elsal.toPodcast | Episodio 5: Imperialismo, genocidio y negocio. Tambores de guerraQuinta entrega del podcast sobre extrema derecha de El Salto Radio. Con la colaboración de Ruth Ferrero, Evgeny Morozov, Pedro Ramiro, Miquel Ramos, William I. Robinson, Emmanuel Rodríguez, Olga Rodrí... 1117
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoStuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri - Brill, May 2025; paperback @haymarketbooks.org June 2026 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2787-c... @alfatau.bsky.socialhaymarketbooks.orgCommunism in Philosophy 073
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026First part of my conversation with former Black Panther Mansa Musa on Gramsci, fascism past and present, and prison abolition. Many thanks to Mansa and RNN producer Cameron Granadino for the invitation. 03014
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoKasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 08/06/2026"Theseus and the Minotaur (A Modern Interpretation)" by Art Young, the preeminent American socialist writer and cartoonist.(don't miss the figure hiding in the background 👀) 02612
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoLEVANTA FUEGO @levantafuego.com · 02/06/2026💥 NOVEDAD 💥 En «El nuevo cuerpo fascista», Dagmar Herzog, historiadora experta en la sexualidad durante el Tercer Reich y la posguerra, explica el poder de las pulsiones eróticas en el racismo y el capacitismo de la extrema derecha actual. ¡Ya en librerías! ➡️ levantafuego.com/producto/el-... 22111
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoLEVANTA FUEGO @levantafuego.com · 02/06/2026Dagmar Herzog obtuvo en 2025 el Premio DAAD/GSA y en 2026 ha recibido el Premio Günther Anders de Pensamiento Crítico por sus investigaciones sobre fascismo, poder, sexualidad y psicoanálisis. «El nuevo cuerpo fascista», con epílogo de Alberto Toscano, es su primer libro traducido al castellano. 041
Reposted by Alberto Toscanorobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 28/05/2026“Fascism itself—which relies on the idea of a homogeneous, exclusionary body politic—is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border, the perfect breeding ground for fantasies of ethnonationalism, cultural supremacy, racial purity … being antifascist means being a border abolitionist.” 03313
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Registrations are closing for the BISR course on politics and language I'll be teaching from June 3 - syllabus will include J. Butler's Excitable Speech, P. Virno's When the Word Becomes Flesh, F. Moten's In the Break and G. Agamben's What is Philosophy? thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...thebrooklyninstitute.comPowers of Speech: Language and Politics - Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchEver since the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined the human being both as a political animal (zoon politikon) and as an animal endowed with speech and reason (zoon logon echon), the relations... 1152
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/05/2026Amid graduation ceremonies across the United States, many colleges are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations. Students and faculty are resisting the censorship and often organizing alternative events. www.democracynow.org/2026/5/21/peop… 4282120
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoCentro de Teoría Postcapitalista @ctpo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Entre las ruinas y las derrotas, ¿puede el comunismo imaginarse sin transición ni estrategia? En este texto el filósofo Alberto Toscano se interroga sobre las promesas y límites de una revolución que debería aspirar a abolir el capital aquí y ahora. centrodeteoriapostcapitalista.com/toscano-ahor... 013
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Will be discussing some of Virno's contributions to thinking the nexus of politics & language at Red May next week, before I explore them further in my BISR course: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course... youtube.com/live/ZaoZnfd...youtube.comPAOLO VIRNO: Materialist Philosophy in Counter-Revolutionary TimesYouTube video by Red May TV 061
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 23/05/2026"Lenin's style is distinguished by the absence of spells and incantations. Each speech and article marks a totally new beginning. There are no terms." (V. Shklovsky, 'Lenin as Decanoniser) Will be discussing this text in my BISR course starting June 3. Last week to register. 062
Reposted by Alberto Toscanodaniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism, with Alberto Toscano, @vethompson.bsky.social, Bafta Sarbo, Jule Ulbricht et moi, on fascism and fascisization. Looking forward to it (the conversation, not the fascism)! spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...spore-initiative.orgInto the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism 15823
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoTheory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 08/05/2026From the Archive: Alberto Toscano, 'The Culture of Abstraction' - explores Whitehead's understanding of the social contexts and repercussions of mathematical and scientific abstraction. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 052
Reposted by Alberto Toscanotwoinou @twoinou.bsky.social · 13/05/2026avec une camarade, nous avons fait un entretien avec Alberto Toscano en amont du G7 et du contre-sommet qui s'organise à Genève mi-juin au programme de l'échange : une réflexion critique sur la théorie/histoire du fascisme et ses rapports avec l'impérialisme 🔥 nog7ge.noblogs.org/2026/05/13/v... 096
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Very happy to announce that my translation of Alberto Toscano's (@alfatau.bsky.social) Terms of Disorder will be published with @unrastverlag.bsky.social in October. Like Late Fascism an incredibly rich and illuminating book; hope it will be widely read! unrast-verlag.de/produkt/inte... 0256
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoRobert Tally @roberttally.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Duke U Press has made available the first 30 pages or so of "The Future of Totality," including our Introduction and the wonderful Foreword written by Kim Stanley Robinson. www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...dukeupress.eduThe Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory 0155
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Book: Are You a Software Update "Given the urgency of the topics covered and in order to ensure widest possible circulation, editors decided to make the essay 'They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility' by Alberto Toscano available free of charge in PDF format"aksioma.orgAre You a Software Update? - AksiomaNote dated 26 April 2026 Given the urgency of the topics covered and in order to ensure the widest possible circulation, the editorial team has decided to make the essay They Build to Dominate, or Fas... 0117
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/04/2026Palantir has won contracts with ICE, partnered on Trump’s “Golden Dome,” and promoted a vision of tech built for Western military supremacy. @alfatau.bsky.social writes on the company’s authoritarian business model.inthesetimes.comBuilt to DominatePalantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why. 02513
Reposted by Alberto Toscanorobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 27/04/2026“Damaging & destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace … for the government, the waging of peace is terrorism. Resisting the destruction of human life and the perpetuation of a genocide against the Palestinian people is not wrong. It is the law, and this government, that is wrong.” 3309
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoJanez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 26/04/2026"They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility" by Alberto Toscano. Distressingly topical... Free PDF available here: aksioma.org/are-you-a-so... 02211
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 20/04/2026"our age threatens one day to appear ... as marked by the most dramatic and difficult trial of all, the discovery of and training in the meaning of the ‘simplest’ acts of existence: seeing, listening, speaking, reading.” (L. Althusser). My new course at BISR starts June 3. 070
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 20/04/2026"Palantir is creating digital infrastructure for the multiple forms of state violence & control... from the software facilitating mass deportations to the AI wielded in wars against colonized people." @alfatau.bsky.social explains the drive for domination. inthesetimes.com/article/pala... 814566
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoBen Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026 @iliasalami.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social @ami-n.bsky.social @morton.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social @aurelmondon.com @ceaubin.com @awalkergeogs.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com 073
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17/04/2026From @alfatau.bsky.social about the Trump admin: Such incoherence is par for the course for a president who has variously forecast that the conflict may continue for days, weeks or months—qualified by his claim that the United States could fight "forever." inthesetimes.com/article/axis... 093
Reposted by Alberto ToscanoPablo Elorduy @pelorduy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Episodio 1. La llegada del cisne naranja. A modo de introducción, lo que va desde la crisis de 2008 a Trump. Con la colaboración de Yago Álvarez, Vincent Bevins, Luciana Cadahia, Laura Camargo, Steven Forti, Fernanda Rodríguez, Alexander Thomas, Alberto Toscano y Miguel Urbán. elsal.to/47374elsal.toPodcast | Episodio 1: La llegada del cisne naranjaLa primera entrega del podcast Utopía X cuenta con la colaboración de Yago Álvarez, Vincent Bevins, Luciana Cadahia, Laura Camargo, Steven Forti, Fernanda Rodríguez, Alexander Thomas, Alberto Toscano ... 1189