1,283 research outputs found
Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano
No full textAlberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is Visiting Faculty at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU.Alberto\u27s current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2021); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of \u27real abstraction\u27 as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto\u27s research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory.Resources:— Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought: cpct.uk/about/— Seagull Books: www.seagullbooks.org/our-translator…berto-toscano/— Digital Democracies Institute: digitaldemocracies.org/— The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze: www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403997807— Fanaticism: www.versobooks.com/books/2475-fanaticism— Cartographies of the Absolute: www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/…he-absolute— Wolfen movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46RneepoxQ— Pli journal: plijournal.com
Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano
No full textAlberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is Visiting Faculty at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU.Alberto\u27s current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2021); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of \u27real abstraction\u27 as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto\u27s research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory. Resources— Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought: https://cpct.uk/about/— Seagull Books: https://www.seagullbooks.org/our-translators/t/alberto-toscano/— Digital Democracies Institute: https://digitaldemocracies.org/— The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403997807— Fanaticism: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2475-fanaticism— Cartographies of the Absolute: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute— Wolfen movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46RneepoxQ— Pli journal: https://plijournal.com
Late-Fascism — with Alberto Toscano
No full text"Alberto Toscano Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is a Term Research Associate Professor at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU. Alberto’s current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2023); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of ‘real abstraction’ as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto’s research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory.
The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics
No full textThis volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy, serve as the thematic foci around which the collection orbits, as it seeks to define the historical and geographical particularity of these notions as well their continuing impact on an international debate. The volume also covers the debate around ‘weak thought’ (pensiero debole), the feminist thinking of sexual difference, the re-emergence of political anthropology and the question of communism. The contributors provide contrasting narratives of the development of post-war Italian thought and trace paths out of the theoretical and political impasses of the present—against what Negri, in the text from which the volume takes its name, calls ‘the Italian desert’
Sovereign Impunity
No full textAlberto Toscano on Danilo Zolo, La giustizia dei vincitori: Da Norimberga a Baghdad. A Florentine legal scholar traces the postwar development of a system of punitive international law, and its 1990s deployment by the West to impose 'victors' justice'
Espinoza Lolas, Ricardo; Fernández, Jorge Eduardo y Toscano, Alberto (eds.) (2020). Hegel hoy
No full textObra ressenyada: Recardo ESPINOZA LOLAS; Jorge Eduardo FERNÁNDES y Alberto TOSCANO (eds.). Hegel hoy. Barcelona: Herder, 202
Georges Bataille, Critical Essays, 1944-1948
No full textThis is the first volume of the post-war writings of Georges Bataille, primarily his writings for the journal Critique. It consists of his essays written in the period 1944 to 1948 and an editorial introduction by Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano. The translation is by Chris Turner
De l’aristocratie ouvrière à l’Union sacrée : Du Bois sur les origines coloniales de 1914
No full textL’impérialisme et la colonisation sont les racines de la Première guerre mondiale. Alors que l’on commémore les cent ans de la guerre de 1914, Alberto Toscano revient sur l’interprétation qu’en offrit, dans les années 1910, W.E.B. Du Bois, marxiste noir américain. Pour ce dernier, la Première guerre mondiale ramène sur le territoire européen un conflit que les grandes puissances impérialistes européennes se livraient sur le territoire de l’Afrique depuis plusieurs décennies. Revenant sur les notions centrales de W.E.B. Du Bois de « salaire de la blancheur » et de « ligne de couleur », Toscano montre ainsi la difficulté stratégique qu’a posé la guerre pour les Noirs américains, et en particulier pour Du Bois : puisque la ligne de couleur traverse autant les mouvements ouvriers des pays du centre que le monde capitaliste lui-même, la question du ralliement à l’effort de guerre supposait de répondre à la double exigence de lutter contre l’impérialisme américain et contre le racisme du mouvement ouvrier
Too Late Fascism: A Review of Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism
No full textReview of Alberto Toscano. 2023. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. London: Verso.Review of Alberto Toscano. 2023. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. London: Verso
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