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Alberto Toscano – Late Fascism

Jan Slaby

Kommentar

In view of the rise of right-wing authoritarian movements around the world it is an urgent intellectual and political task to understand the new faces of fascism that have sprung up in recent years. From Buenos Aires to Erfurt, from Rome to Budapest, from New Delhi to Mar-a-Lago, and from Silicon Valley to a place near you – authoritarian formations with fascist leanings creep up on institutions, governments, individuals. In this course, we will study Alberto Toscano’s recent book Late Fascism (2023) and bring it in relation to other relevant studies on fascism past and present. Toscano understands fascism as a mutable formation that adapts to changing political landscapes, economic regimes and cultural conjunctures. He draws on a range of classical sources whom he blends together into a theoretical assemblage geared to the specificity of the present moment. One notable line of inquiry concerns fascist freedom – that is, mostly white, settler-colonial, masculinist figurations of freedom that accompany the push towards ultra-liberal capitalism. The seminar will draw on several of Toscano’s source texts as well, so among the course readings will be texts from Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Aimé Cesaire, Ernst Fraenkel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective, among others. Besides close engagements with these and other texts, the course will offer students the possibility to form discussion groups and research collectives that may pursue thematic strands in part independently from the rest of the group, thus contributing to a broader range of themes and sources covered. Schließen

12 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00 12 Termine

Mo, 14.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jan Slaby