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Alberto Toscano

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"Chi ha compagni non morirà." (Franco Fortini)

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Jonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Out now im @unrastverlag.bsky.social: Meine Übersetzung von Alberto Toscanos (@alfatau.bsky.social) "Terms of Disorder".
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The starting time has been amended to 7pm: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
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Fascism Without the West? With Alberto Toscano
In 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?
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On 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).
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
Trump 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.
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Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excited 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!
Event poster for the lecture series „Fascist Spaces“. The poster includes the dates and names of all lectures. Text:

09.11.26_ alberto toscano
[onlinel
23.11.26_ katrin köppert
11.01.27_ simon strick
18.01.27_ anna-verena nosthoff
& felix maschewski
25.01.27 _ dagmar herzog [online]
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Jonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meine 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. 💘
Das Bild zeigt das Cover des Buchs "Interregnum. Stichworte für Umbruchszeiten" von Alberto Toscano: https://unrast-verlag.de/produkt/interregnum/
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey Bay Area friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER in Oakland on Sat 9/19 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!
SATURDAY, SEPT 19TH
AT 6:30 PM
1721 BROADWAY IN OAKLAND
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This book has a section near the end called "The Myths of Net Zero and Carbon Removal". Recommended.
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Starting 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...
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Philosophy and War - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
War 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. ...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What 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!
Infrastructural Critique:
Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition
by Marina Vishmidt

Preface by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten

Edited by Larne Abse Gogarty, Danny Hayward and Kerstin Stakemeier
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My 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...
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Wirklichkeit Books - The Blood Libel
Furio Jesi The Blood Libel The Trial against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany[::cut] Translated and int
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Some reflections on the psychopathology of settler-colonialism and its fascist echoes, via Memmi, Racine, Abdaljawad Omar and André Bazin. communispress.com/the-nero-com...
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The Nero Complex
Discerning how usurpation morphs into a new kind of psychic and ideological legitimacy.
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today 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!
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the language of fortitude and even heroism: yes
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
e-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...
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On Persistence - Notes - e-flux
Rebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness.
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Jonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
perfect 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.social
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 02/07/2026
The 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.
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The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/07/2026
Trump 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.
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The Axis of Chaos
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
new Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...
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Myth, Fascism, and the Dialectic
On myth’s modern return under the cruel mask of fascism, and the reversion to the ritual of human sacrifice.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/06/2026
At 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.
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Antifa Everywhere
As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?
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The 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)
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'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,”...
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Occupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A 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...
Screenshot of a press release dated June 17, 2026. The headline reads, “State Felony Charges Dismissed Today Against Stop Cop City Activists Known as Cobb County 3.” The subhead says District Court Judge Flournoy threw out charges filed by Attorney General Chris Carr in April, four years after the arrests, on due process grounds. The visible body text explains that Hannah Kass, Katie Kloth and Tyler Norman had felony charges dismissed in Cobb County, Georgia, and notes that Kloth and Norman still face a related federal indictment.
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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...
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Vectors of Fascism
The fish rots from the head down: A fascism endogenous to the liberal State.
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Pablo Elorduy @pelorduy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
E. 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/48292
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Podcast | Episodio 5: Imperialismo, genocidio y negocio. Tambores de guerra
Quinta 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...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Alberto 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.social
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Communism in Philosophy
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
First 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.
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Kasper 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 👀)
Political cartoon about the labor movement fighting fascism. Fascism is represented by a bull on a leash that is controlled by capitalism.
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LEVANTA 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-...
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LEVANTA FUEGO @levantafuego.com · 02/06/2026
Dagmar 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.
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robin 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.”
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Registrations 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...
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Powers of Speech: Language and Politics - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Ever 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...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/05/2026
Amid 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…
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Centro de Teoría Postcapitalista @ctpo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Entre 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...
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Will 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...
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PAOLO VIRNO: Materialist Philosophy in Counter-Revolutionary Times
YouTube video by Red May TV
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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.
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Into 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...
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Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 08/05/2026
From 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...
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twoinou @twoinou.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
avec 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...
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Jonathan Roessler @jvroessler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very 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...
Cover der deutschen Ausgabe von Alberto Toscanos "Terms of Disorder" mit dem Titel "Interregnum. Stichworte für Umbruchszeiten" (Unrast Verlag). Rosa Schrift auf blauem Grund, illustriert mit der Cyanotypie einer Blume.
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Robert Tally @roberttally.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Duke 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...
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The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Book: 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"
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Are You a Software Update? - Aksioma
Note 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...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/04/2026
Palantir 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.
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Built to Dominate
Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why.
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robin 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.”
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the complicity of the British government. I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism. And I believe that the proscription under the Terrorism Act of groups that seek peace through non-violent means is political repression of the freedom of conscience. 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.
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Janez 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...
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Tauriel @tauriel1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Repost mit alt text

Faschisierung -- analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien

Hybride Vortragsheihe der KriSol-AG
Was ist Faschisierung? im SoSe 2026

21.05.26 18 Uhr c.t.
Anne Menzel: "Girl Boss" zu "Mean Girl"? Von neoliberalem Feminismus und faschisierter Weiblichkeit
Universität Bremen

22.05.26 19 Uhr c.t.
Into the Wastelands. On Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism
Diskussion mit Vanessa Thompson, Daniel Loick, Alberto Toscano
Spore Initiative, Berlin

03.06.26 19 Uhr c.t.
Felix Axster: "Kolonialer Frühfaschismus". Zur longue durée des Historiker:innen-Streits 2.0
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin

25.06.26 18 Uhr c.t.
María Cárdenas: Faschisierung relational betrachtet -- pluriversale, dekoloniale, und anzestrale Denkanstöße aus den Amerikas
IFSH, Universität Hamburg

02.07.26 18 Uhr c.t.
Niki Kubaczek: Grenzen der Faschisierung
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

09.07.26 18.30 Uhr
Was tun gegen Faschisierung?
Diskussion mit Eleonora Roldán Mendívil (Politikwissenschaftlerin), Alex Demirović (Sozialwissenschaftler), Anna (NS-Verherrlichung stoppen)
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin

Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich hybrid auf Zoom in deutscher Sprache statt.

krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation
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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.
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In 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...
Illustration of a pink-winged eagle with a white head and talons clutching a rifle in one claw and a missile in the other. Its torso is a black shield marked with an eye inside a triangle, and three surveillance cameras rise from its neck against a pale green background.
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Ben 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
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17/04/2026
From @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...
Graphic for an In These Times article titled “The Axis of Chaos,” with the subhead, “The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.” A map of Iran and neighboring countries fills the background, with Tehran and Hamadan visible. In the foreground, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump sit facing each other in white chairs, rendered in high-contrast black and white with a glitch-like effect. Netanyahu gestures toward Trump, and a small In These Times logo appears between them.
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Pablo Elorduy @pelorduy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Episodio 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/47374
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Podcast | Episodio 1: La llegada del cisne naranja
La 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 ...
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