EVENTS

Book launch
with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Alberto Toscano
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
by Alberto Toscano (2023)
11.06.2024, 19h00

Venue: Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 – 3º C

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In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs?

From the "Great Replacement" to campaigns against critical race theory and "gender ideology", today's global far right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political, sexual and racial regimes. Late Fascism turns to theories of fascism produced in the past century, testing their capacity to illuminate our current moment and challenging many of the commonplaces that debate on this extremely charged term devolves into.

Toscano approaches fascism as a problem and a process, one that is intimately linked to capitalism's demands for domination. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of racial fascism, he makes clear the limits of identifying fascism simply with the political violence of bygone European regimes. Late Fascism allows us to rediscover largely anonymous collective practices of worldmaking against domination, traditions of the oppressed that remain a resource for those set on dismantling the hierarchies and segregations that the partisans of order and tradition seek to revive and reimpose.

Alberto Toscano is Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. A prolific writer, he has also translated works by Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, Furio Jesi, and Franco Fortini.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (2022) collects thirty years of her writing.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event.

The discussion will be in English. Entry is free and limited to the number of seats available.

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