At Prairieland, federal prosecutors turned an anti-ICE protest into a terrorism case, with defendants now sentenced to decades in prison. @alfatau.bsky.social writes that the target is not just “antifa,” but mass opposition to deportation regimes, racist policing and authoritarianism.

“This idea that you’re trying to gain popular consent, you’re trying to win elections, you’re trying to create coalitions by promising a certain degree of force exercised against a target population,” says Alberto Toscano (@alfatau.bsky.social)

A Cobb County judge threw out state felony charges against Stop Cop City activists today, finding due process violations by the Georgia Attorney General. After years of repression, the state’s campaign to criminalize dissent loses another round. weelauneethefree.org/state-felony...

“Just as the immense violence of the American imperial State can be understood both as a function and as a symptom of its decline, the extraordinary concentration of capital and repressive power is also haunted by its own sense of precariousness.” communispress.com/vectors-of-f...

E. 5 Tambores de Guerra. Cpn Ruth Ferrero, Evgeny Morozov, Pedro Ramiro, Miquel Ramos, William I. Robinson, Emmanuel Rodríguez, Olga Rodríguez, Fabian Scheidler, Patricia Simón, Alberto Toscano e Irene Zugasti. elsal.to/48292

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri - Brill, May 2025; paperback @haymarketbooks.org June 2026 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2787-c... @alfatau.bsky.social

First part of my conversation with former Black Panther Mansa Musa on Gramsci, fascism past and present, and prison abolition. Many thanks to Mansa and RNN producer Cameron Granadino for the invitation.

"Theseus and the Minotaur (A Modern Interpretation)" by Art Young, the preeminent American socialist writer and cartoonist.(don't miss the figure hiding in the background 👀)

💥 NOVEDAD 💥 En «El nuevo cuerpo fascista», Dagmar Herzog, historiadora experta en la sexualidad durante el Tercer Reich y la posguerra, explica el poder de las pulsiones eróticas en el racismo y el capacitismo de la extrema derecha actual. ¡Ya en librerías! ➡️ levantafuego.com/producto/el-...

Dagmar Herzog obtuvo en 2025 el Premio DAAD/GSA y en 2026 ha recibido el Premio Günther Anders de Pensamiento Crítico por sus investigaciones sobre fascismo, poder, sexualidad y psicoanálisis. «El nuevo cuerpo fascista», con epílogo de Alberto Toscano, es su primer libro traducido al castellano.

“Fascism itself—which relies on the idea of a homogeneous, exclusionary body politic—is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border, the perfect breeding ground for fantasies of ethnonationalism, cultural supremacy, racial purity … being antifascist means being a border abolitionist.”

Registrations are closing for the BISR course on politics and language I'll be teaching from June 3 - syllabus will include J. Butler's Excitable Speech, P. Virno's When the Word Becomes Flesh, F. Moten's In the Break and G. Agamben's What is Philosophy? thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Amid graduation ceremonies across the United States, many colleges are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations. Students and faculty are resisting the censorship and often organizing alternative events. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/21/peoples_convocation_palestine

Entre las ruinas y las derrotas, ¿puede el comunismo imaginarse sin transición ni estrategia? En este texto el filósofo Alberto Toscano se interroga sobre las promesas y límites de una revolución que debería aspirar a abolir el capital aquí y ahora. centrodeteoriapostcapitalista.com/toscano-ahor...

Will be discussing some of Virno's contributions to thinking the nexus of politics & language at Red May next week, before I explore them further in my BISR course: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course... youtube.com/live/ZaoZnfd...

"Lenin's style is distinguished by the absence of spells and incantations. Each speech and article marks a totally new beginning. There are no terms." (V. Shklovsky, 'Lenin as Decanoniser) Will be discussing this text in my BISR course starting June 3. Last week to register.

Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism, with Alberto Toscano, @vethompson.bsky.social, Bafta Sarbo, Jule Ulbricht et moi, on fascism and fascisization. Looking forward to it (the conversation, not the fascism)! spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

From the Archive: Alberto Toscano, 'The Culture of Abstraction' - explores Whitehead's understanding of the social contexts and repercussions of mathematical and scientific abstraction. (2008) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

avec une camarade, nous avons fait un entretien avec Alberto Toscano en amont du G7 et du contre-sommet qui s'organise à Genève mi-juin au programme de l'échange : une réflexion critique sur la théorie/histoire du fascisme et ses rapports avec l'impérialisme 🔥 nog7ge.noblogs.org/2026/05/13/v...

Very happy to announce that my translation of Alberto Toscano's (@alfatau.bsky.social) Terms of Disorder will be published with @unrastverlag.bsky.social in October. Like Late Fascism an incredibly rich and illuminating book; hope it will be widely read! unrast-verlag.de/produkt/inte...

Duke U Press has made available the first 30 pages or so of "The Future of Totality," including our Introduction and the wonderful Foreword written by Kim Stanley Robinson. www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

Book: Are You a Software Update "Given the urgency of the topics covered and in order to ensure widest possible circulation, editors decided to make the essay 'They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility' by Alberto Toscano available free of charge in PDF format"

Palantir has won contracts with ICE, partnered on Trump’s “Golden Dome,” and promoted a vision of tech built for Western military supremacy. @alfatau.bsky.social writes on the company’s authoritarian business model.

“Damaging & destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace … for the government, the waging of peace is terrorism. Resisting the destruction of human life and the perpetuation of a genocide against the Palestinian people is not wrong. It is the law, and this government, that is wrong.”

"They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility" by Alberto Toscano. Distressingly topical... Free PDF available here: aksioma.org/are-you-a-so...

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"our age threatens one day to appear ... as marked by the most dramatic and difficult trial of all, the discovery of and training in the meaning of the ‘simplest’ acts of existence: seeing, listening, speaking, reading.” (L. Althusser). My new course at BISR starts June 3.

"Palantir is creating digital infrastructure for the multiple forms of state violence & control... from the software facilitating mass deportations to the AI wielded in wars against colonized people." @alfatau.bsky.social explains the drive for domination. inthesetimes.com/article/pala...

@iliasalami.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social @ami-n.bsky.social @morton.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social @aurelmondon.com @ceaubin.com @awalkergeogs.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com

From @alfatau.bsky.social about the Trump admin: Such incoherence is par for the course for a president who has variously forecast that the conflict may continue for days, weeks or months—qualified by his claim that the United States could fight "forever." inthesetimes.com/article/axis...

Episodio 1. La llegada del cisne naranja. A modo de introducción, lo que va desde la crisis de 2008 a Trump. Con la colaboración de Yago Álvarez, Vincent Bevins, Luciana Cadahia, Laura Camargo, Steven Forti, Fernanda Rodríguez, Alexander Thomas, Alberto Toscano y Miguel Urbán. elsal.to/47374

🎙La primera entrega de Utopía X cuenta con la colaboración de @econocabreado.bsky.social  @vincentbevins.bsky.social  @luciana-cadahia.bsky.social  @laurarevolta.bsky.social  @stevenforti.bsky.social  Fernanda Rodríguez, Alexander Thomas, @alfatau.bsky.social  y @miguelurban.bsky.social

“Novecento is a monument ... to the contradictions of a communist worldview—between agrarian utopias and a “sense of the State"—which was already alien to the countercultural movements of the 1970s, in search of other celebrations and other liberations." communispress.com/novecento-at...

i'm not exactly sure what "race communism" is but i'm intrigued and would like to give it a try

"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such..."

🗣 Opinión | ¿Dominación sin hegemonía, hoy? ✍🏼 Álvaro García Linera

"The burden colonizes perception, so that domination appears to emanate from the world’s own structure rather than from any particular will to power." communispress.com/the-burden-a...

Teaching a course at BISR in June on language and politics, which will focus especially on the writings of Paolo Virno (alongside Lenin, Agamben, Butler et al.). thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

From strikes for Gaza to organizing against anti-LGBTQ policies & visions beyond capitalist collapse, read work from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @alfatau.bsky.social, @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social & more. inthesetimes.com/magazine/cap...

Ya disponible el coloquio que organizamos en el @ctpo.bsky.social con el filósofo Alberto Toscano. No os lo perdáis!! 👇

Still a couple of places left - course starts next week with the interpretation of Césaire's 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.

"It is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs". I'll be teaching Discourse on Colonialism alongside Césaire's poetry and theatre at BISR beginning April 8. Places still available. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Taught my students about 'fascist affects' today & as I was preparing, I came across a cluster of essays in Tank I'd missed from 2025. Ed. Stefanos Geroulanos; featuring Dagmar Herzog, Zahid Choudhary, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social tank.tv/magazine/iss...

"It is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs". I'll be teaching Discourse on Colonialism alongside Césaire's poetry and theatre at BISR beginning April 8. Places still available. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

At Prairieland, federal prosecutors targeted people who weren’t even present—including Daniel Sanchez Estrada, whose alleged crime was transporting anarchist zines. @alfatau.bsky.social on Trump’s expanding war on dissent: inthesetimes.com/article/anti...

"Where Trump and his administration appear afflicted by a kind of imperial attention deficit disorder, Israel has laid its objectives bare." @alfatau.bsky.social reports on Iran and the increasing nihilism in U.S. policy.

Alberto Toscano: "Where Trump and his administration appear afflicted by a kind of imperial attention deficit disorder, Israel has laid its objectives bare." inthesetimes.com/article/axis...

Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future www.merip.org/2025/10/hard... A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social

Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference. "Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’" A must read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...