@alfatau.bsky.social
"Chi ha compagni non morirà." (Franco Fortini)
"... the history of the term Staatsräson is explicitly a history of violence. It’s about all of these forms of behavior that are not moral but are politically necessary: lying, deceit, violence, expropriation…”
communispress.com/unreason-of-...
An interview with Patrick Samzun of the anarchist journal Réfractions, on analyzing & fighting the contemporary far-Right:
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Faculty Writing | Abdaljawad Omar, "Water without name " | for @communispress | buff.ly/axPbMVd
02.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"My modest proposal would be an antifascist take on Nietzsche’s idea of becoming who one is: becoming what the far right imagines you to be, realizing their imaginary enemy."
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reminder at this anniversary that Jameson's 90th birthday was celebrated with short essays by many many nerds on his many many major books! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...
23.09.2025 16:20 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Starting November 12, I'll be teaching a course at BISR on how a tragic anti-colonialism was developed—in theory, practice and dramaturgy—by a range of writers, from Lorraine Hansberry to Frantz Fanon, from C.L.R. James to Anna Seghers, from Aimé Césaire to Ghassan Kanafani.
23.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1What looks to be another important critique of Sohn Rethel's real abstraction. (I know i'm old but it blows my mind Constellations has published this!)
22.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
22.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 26 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!
18.09.2025 17:46 — 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
In conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Rose Aguilar on political repression in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Postmodern Culture Volume 34, Number 2, January 2024 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE CONTRIBUTORS Stephen D. Carter Paul Earlie Sungyong Ahn Rashmi Varma Anna Bernard Brenna Bhandar Timothy Brennan John Cox Nadia Hajal-Backleh Rohini Hensman David Palumbo-Liu Vijay Prashad Sarah Shields Ajantha Subramanian Alberto Toscano Travis Alexander Erika Teichert
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Postmodern Culture
Volume 34, Number 2, January 2024
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/wnyk7kf4
CONTRIBUTORS
Stephen D. Carter
Paul Earlie
Sungyong Ahn
Rashmi Varma
Anna Bernard
Brenna Bhandar
Timothy Brennan
John Cox
Nadia Hajal-Backleh
Rohini Hensman
and more!
"A racist, eugenicist, military state, Sparta received Hitler's seal of approval for its biological selectionism as the first truly racist and Nordic state, a legitimate precursor to the Third Reich."
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A "super-Sparta" undergirded by a "flexible" economy centred on weapons production and with "autarkic characteristics", grounded on the principle that ethno-national "life is more important than law". The unabashed rhetoric and practice of 21st century fascism.
haaretz.co.il/tmr/allnews/...
Awaiting arrest for holding a placard in support of Palestine Action protestors read, Selected Political Writings by Ghassan Kanafani, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Late Facism by Alberto Toscano Wilding by Isabella Tree among other books
09.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The rest of the recordings and other events from the Centre for Climate Justice @ UBC here:
www.youtube.com/@centreforcl...
A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...
The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more.
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Alberto Toscano: “Hay un colapso simbólico del supremacismo occidental en su forma liberal”.
Tuve la suerte de tener esta conversación sobre nuestro tiempo con el autor de un gran ensayo acerca de la nueva extrema derecha.
Fotos de @aminguito.bsky.social
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“[A] blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development.”
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proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Our Long Arc of Fascism Teach-In with @ccms-sfu.bsky.social in April brought people together to workshop how best to be engaged and move forward. Recordings from the sessions now up on our YouTube channel - highlights from this wonderful day of action here: youtu.be/JGYSvNEMKj4?...
28.08.2025 17:09 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
PALANTIR, O BRAÇO DIGITAL DO FASCISMO TARDIO
Corporação do bilionário Peter Thiel multiplica seu capital fornecendo a Washington e Tel Aviv sistemas que identificam quem deportar ou matar. Seus anúncios pregam o supremacismo do Ocidente. Sua proximidade com Trump assegura contratos e imunidade
I tried to explore some elements of our moment that make it worthwhile to think through the problem of Caesarism here:
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
I will be teaching this online course in September at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Palantir Technologies, fondée par Peter Thiel, conçoit l’infrastructure de la répression, et nous explique pourquoi dans ses campagnes de publicité. Le philosophe Alberto Toscano analyse à partir de ce cas les noces de la Big Tech, de l’extrême droite et de l'état.
www.contretemps.eu/palantir-tec...
"While any recognition of Palestinian suffering may seem like a victory, it’s a mistake to see these recent statements as evidence of a pivot towards finally confronting Israel’s war against the Palestinian people — let alone doing something about it." New from @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
01.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 39 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 2
As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity and shield Israel from accountability, the so-called “liberal international order” has stopped even pretending to seek consent.
@alfatau.bsky.social breaks it down:
🔗 inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
Illustration of two identical blonde-haired men in suits facing each other. One has pink skin with a yellow beam from his eyes, conveying curiosity and tension.
In a topsy-turvy world where Afrikaners are “refugees” and civil rights are for white men, every accusation is a confession. @alfatau.bsky.social dives into the disinformation, myths and conspiracy theories surrounding the politics of white grievance.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
I will be teaching this online course in September at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
J'ai huit ans (1961) youtu.be/6f-cgzPoaxw?... via @YouTube
"At the children’s house in Tunis, Fanon asked the refugees to work through their experiences, in writing, speech, or drawing. Paper and crayons were distributed to the children refugees." scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/m...
Franco Fortini, "Bring Back Fanon" (1992)
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