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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Iran is going through dramatic times, from Jin, Jiyan, Azadî to the brutal January massacre and the illegal war waged by Israel and the US. Nader Talebi reflects on tensions and uprisings as a fight to reclaim life. irgac.org/articles/art...

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"We should recognize the agency of the Iranian regime and the people who oppose it": Nader Talebi

An interview with Nader Talebi about the Islamic regime and the struggles to reclaim life amid massacres and ongoing war.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Why are “new” right-wing ideas gaining ground among young people in Latin America? Our article shows how discourses of security, order, and meritocracy resonate in times of crisis— often recycling older authoritarian logics. Read it on our website: irgac.org/articles/Art...

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New generations and (not so) new authoritarianism in Bolivia

The rise of right-wing discourses in Latin America presents itself as a promise of change, appealing to meritocracy, pragmatism, and economic recovery. Yet behind this language of renewal lies a famil...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New interview on our website with Şebnem Oğuz describing the concept of late fascism that differs not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism, but also from classical fascism. Read it here: irgac.org/articles/art...

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Late fascism as a mode of crisis management: An Interview with Şebnem Oğuz

Şebnem Oğuz examines late fascism as a contemporary mode of crisis management, distinct not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism but also from classical fascism. How does capi...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter "Empire" is out! Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter is out: "Is This (Still) Authoritarianism?" Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

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Is This (Still) Authoritarianism?

IRGAC's Monthly Newsletter

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just six years after the Estallido Social’s uprising against neoliberal austerity, José Antonio Kast, has ridden a wave of right-wing radicalization to the presidency. Our essay of the week examines the rise of the Chilean far-right. By Luciano S. Hoces in @irgac-rls.bsky.social buff.ly/PpjaJD1

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Rosa Luxemburg NYC @rosalux.nyc · 12/12/2025

Call for applications! @irgac-rls.bsky.social is inviting applications for two three-year PhD fellowships open to citizens of ODA-recipient countries residing outside Europe, the USA, and Canada. Find out more and how to apply: rosalux.nyc/call-for-app...

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Call for Applications: The Authoritarian Appeal - RLS-NYC

Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: The Authoritarian Appeal The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), a joint initiative of the Rosa-Luxembu...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"The genocide of the Palestinian people cannot be understood without recognising how Judaism is weaponised by the State of Israel, which has turned it into a means for domination. But Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination." Ariel Feldman in irgac.org/articles/war...

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War on Identity: Notes on Zionism, Judaism and Genocide

Israel has weaponised Judaism and exploits it as a means for domination while systematically dehumanising Palestinians. However, Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"In #Gaza all of us are being told: Look, this can be done, because the law no longer exists. today, the law is the power of death, and whoever has that power is the law. That is why I say that we are all Palestine." Our #interview with Rita Segato: irgac.org/articles/rit... @boerriesn.bsky.social

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Rita Segato: "Gaza is a watershed moment, and the left is falling behind"

Interview with Argentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato on violence, coloniality, race, the fascist moment, and the feminist movement.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...

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Till Hahn @feraltheory.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Wichtiger Text von Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World; The Choice of Civil War, mit Christian Laval) über den Zusammenhang von neoliberaler Entrechtung von Arbeiter*innen und faschistischer Gewaltausübung. (Engl.)

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle. irgac.org/articles/pie...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Far-right movements have emerged as new interlocutors for adolescents unwilling to accept the passivity offered by late neoliberalism. They promise quick exits from poverty and suffering, specifically to young men." Paülah Shabel on #money, #youth and the far-right: irgac.org/articles/pos...

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Post-Fascism for Adolescents

What place does youth have on a planet that’s ending every day? What does the future generation dream about when no one expects the future?

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Dominik Herold @dominikherold.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...

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medico international @medico.de · 29/03/2025

Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor? 📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a 1/6

Titel der Veranstaltung: Was tun - und wie? Dem Autoritarismus von unten begegnen

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

#Fascism successfully channels fears and anxieties towards social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of #care stands as a defiant response to that - as survival, resistance, imagination. @ffarvardin.bsky.social and Gustavo Robles on the subversive and creative potential of care: irgac.org/articles/fro...

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From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares

The far right successfully channels fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that.

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Michael Krämer @mkraemer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"In rasantem Tempo wird die Welt undemokratischer, ungleicher, rauer und weniger rechtsstaatlich." Im neuen Südlink 211 über "Die autoritäre Gefahr" analysiert @boerriesn.bsky.social die neue "Zeit der Monster" und mögliche Gegenstrategien: www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...

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Die Hoffnung zurückgewinnen

Weltweit sind autoritäre Politiken auf dem Vormarsch.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students! --> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Read our February newsletter: Learn about music and counterculture in #Palestine & the world | Get your copy of our 100% free and infinitely reproductible #antifascist exhibition | Read on South-South Justice | and more! open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

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Anti-Authoritarian Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (and other news)

IRGAC's February Newsletter

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge simultaneously all around the world? We discussed with @gambettiz.bsky.social, @hfanton.bsky.social, Alex Demirovic and @boerriesn.bsky.social during our "Contesting Authoritarianism" Conference. Watch this and other discussions irgac.org/articles/con...

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Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South

The complete collection of video recordings of our "Contesting Authoritarianism. Perspectives from the South" conference.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

" ... to fight an insurrection, you need another insurrection. It is not by placing the left as the party of the order that we will stop this process." Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever. irgac.org/articles/bra...

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„Brazil is experiencing a fascist uprising“ Interview with Vladimir Safatle

On January 8, more than 4,000 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded, looted, and vandalized public buildings, in what the professor Vladimir Safatle claims to be a "fascist i...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Resentment and rage are often seen as undesirable for politics, producing anger, hatred, and desire for revenge. But rage can also lead to revolutionary practices. Where do anger, rage & resentment come from? What makes them different? How are they channeled politically? irgac.org/articles/res...

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Resentment and Rage as Two Reactions to Violence

Rabies is a virus produced in mammals, transmitted by salivary contact, but in Spanish the word rabia is often used to connote anger, irritation, hatred, ill will, and desire for revenge. This rage of...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano) >Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We are presenting our book and exhibition #BeyondMolotovs on strategies against authoritarianism in Lisboa, together with Criar Cidade & Jornal Mapa. Don't miss it. Casado Comun, January 31

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@boerriesn.bsky.social talked with our colleagues at @unipotsdam.bsky.social about the authoritarian transformation and counterstrategies, and our current and upcoming work (in German only).

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Universität Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...

Das Bild zeigt brennende Buchstaben, die auf dem Boden zu dem Wort „Demokratie“ angeordnet sind. Das Foto stammt von AdobeStock.

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst) 🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We are now on #substack! Visit the IRGAC Newsletter ans subscribe to get all our latest news, articles, podcasts & more: irgac.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Welcome to IRGAC's new newsletter format!

... we also have a new home, new articles and a new podcast episode

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Revolutions surprise and overwhelm. Sociology is quick to domesticate these moments with conceptual rationality. How can we understand Iran's #Woman-Life-Freedom movement without domesticating it? Read our by Ebrahim Towfigh and Seyed Mehdi Yousefi. irgac.org/articles/why...

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Why Do We Need a New Sociology of Revolution? The (Im)possibility of Zan-Zendegi-Azadi

All revolutions in modern times have something in common: they surprise and overwhelm. Yet we cannot endure the moment of revolution, which we perceive as chaos that must be tamed by order of conceptu...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?" See our new #CfA for 6 #Postdoc Fellowships of 33 months at University of Potsdam and become part of IRGAC! We're looking for research on why and how people support authoritarian politics: irgac.org/calls/call-f...

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Call for Applications: Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: The Authoritarian Appeal

Call for Applications for 6 postdoctoral fellowships at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, with a duration of 33 months (until December 31, 2027). Funding st...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

We are starting this 2025 with some great news: from now on IRGAC is a research group at University of Potsdam, in cooperation with @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social; + next week we'll publish a new #CfA for 6 #postdoc fellowships for 2,5 ys to study #authoritarianism, so stay tuned!

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

OUT NOW 🎧 Check out the third episode of This Authoritarian Life, “Veiling and Unveiling: Everyday Gender Struggles in Iran (Origins)’’, with Firoozeh Farvardin and Yasaman Pishvaei. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Seminario Universitario de la Modernidad: Versiones y Dimensiones (SUM), in collaboration with IRGAC, invite to the International Colloquium: "Autoritarismo, Estrategias Anti-autoritarias y Nuevos Horizontes Utópicos" on November 28th, at UNAM, Mexico

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In the last year of war in #Gaza, #watermelons have become a ubiquitous symbol of solidarity with #Palestinians. To find out more about the origin of the symbol, we spoke to Palestinian artist and writer Khaled Hourani. Hourani is also part of our book Beyond Molotovs www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

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Solidarity, Subversion, and Sumud - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

How the watermelon came to symbolize Palestinian resistance

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

OUT NOW 🎧 This Authoritarian Life is a podcast that explores everyday human stories in order to better understand modern-day authoritarian politics. Listen anywhere where podcasts are available. Brought to you with the support of IRGAC irgac.org/articles/new...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

"The book gathers imaginative experiences of struggle, allowing readers to travel the planet looking at how people carry out coordinated but also spontaneous actions in diverse geographies" - Check out this fresh review about our book Beyond Molotovs! www.ppesydney.net/beyond-molot...

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Beyond Molotovs - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In an anticapitalist spirit, the book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies is a collection of 50 first-hand accounts from activists, collectives, movements, artists and ...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

In this article Hugo Fanton analyzes, from the largest favela in São Paulo, the dynamics of political territorial disputes - the active participation of business forces aligned around the defense of market principles, conflicting with social movements irgac.org/articles/sao... #Brazil

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Between the Expansion of Markets and the Defence of Rights: Rapprochement and Disputes between Businesspeople and Social Movements in São Paulo’s Largest Favela

In this article, Hugo Fanton analyzes, from São Paulos's largest favela, the corporate social performance and the urban territorial political dispute in the rise and crisis of Lulism

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

It feels, at times, as if the walls are closing in on us: impending crisis or impending doom, few possible pathways seem to exist, most of them have hidden traps, and none appear sufficient to escape it. How to make sense of this scenario? irgac.org/articles/ref...

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Reflections on the Crisis of the Political Subject in a Warming Planet

The summer of 2023 was by far the warmest ever recorded. This is not a coincidence, but the confirmation of a global warming trend whose pace seems to have been underestimated even by the sophisticate...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

"Even though in the Second World War every fourth citizen of Belarus was killed, our sites of memory are not numerous. Historical traumas have to battle for a place under the sun of memory" writes Belarusian essayist Olga Bubich irgac.org/articles/mem...

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Memory Landscapes: Between Lost Hopes and Temporary Solace

Authoritarian regimes are expert in manipulating memories, promoting nostalgia, and celebrating blissful amnesia

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

How can we counter authoritarianism? This publication brings together more than 50 accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous dimension of their strategies: transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

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Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-auth...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

As Milei's government approaches a year in office, important changes that were not foreseen a few months ago seem to be signaling the end of the honeymoon. And the Argentine political scene may once again show its traditional vivacity irgac.org/articles/mil... #argentina #milei

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Milei's Government in Argentina: Will Going Against Gravity Work?

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Read, interact, learn and have fun with this awesome interactive article created by Pia Monroy Rodriguez based on the book “Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies" for L!NX, the @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social new digital learning platform linx.rosalux.de/en/authorita...

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Authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism - movements around the world

Authoritarian and right-wing movements are gaining strength around the world and more authoritarian governments are coming into power. What even is authoritarianism? In this article, we explore these ...

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IRGAC @irgac-rls.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Constant surveillance, unjustified suspensions, the anonymization of the relationship with the employer, all reveal that the authoritarian face of neoliberalism also has its microphysical expression in the world of work - A new article by Gustavo Robles irgac.org/articles/the...

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The Platformization of Work and the Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Constant surveillance, evaluation mechanisms, and unjustified suspensions, the anonymization of the relationship with the employer, algorithmic black box orders, all reveal that the authoritarian face...

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