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/...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence. @alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.

💥 Antonio Gramsci, el fascismo y la política de crisis Mañana a las 12:30 estaré dialogando sobre algunas de las cosas que abordo en el libro «La organización de la cultura» con @alfatau.bsky.social en la librería malaletra (Madrid).

"For all their homilies about nation-building, US neocons who advocated for regime change wars in Afghanistan, Iraq & Libya did not shy away from nation-breaking. Similarly, it’s evident Israel's goal is less regime change than state collapse." New from @alfatau.bsky.social at @inthesetimes.com.

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. The cover art is a development of Long Live the New! no. 42, Kazimir Malevich drawing on Morris & Co. design, paint and wallpaper on canvas (2016). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2787-c...

"Nel momento in cui si lega sempre più al progetto israeliano di smantellare la sovranità statale nella regione circostante, la politica degli Stati Uniti diventa sempre più nichilista." www.machina-deriveapprodi.com/post/l-asse-...

"Cuanto más Estados Unidos se acopla con el proyecto de Israel de desmantelar la soberanía de sus Estados vecinos, tanto más nihilista se vuelve la política de Washington." communispress.com/eje-del-caos/

Alberto Toscano - Il tempo dei mostri Trump e la crisi dell'egemonia americana À paraître en avril chez Laterza

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere. The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

My review of Alberto Toscano's Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri has been published on E-Flux. www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...

In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150947...

Found a book published last Dec called The New Fascist Body by Dagmar Herzog. In it she explains that far-right movements like the AfD have been successful because of what she calls “sexy racism” combined with an “obsessive hostility to disability.” publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...

A recently leaked Department of Justice memo directs the department to compile a list of “domestic terrorist” groups based on their opposition to Trump’s agenda, as well as soliciting public tips on Left activism. @alfatau.bsky.social on "Antifa Everywhere" inthesetimes.com/article/anti...

📻 NUEVO EPISODIO Fascismo Tardío Ya está disponible en redes nuestra conversación con Alberto Toscano (@alfatau.bsky.social) sobre la lógica, las potencias y los límites del movimiento reaccionario, con el foco en su epicentro que es el segundo mandato de Trump. open.spotify.com/episode/61ug...

Book discussion in Paris, February 16.

Fascisme tardif, fascisme précoce ; fascistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui https://lundi.am/Fascisme-tardif-fascisme-precoce-fascistes-d-hier-et-d-aujourd-hui "À propos de Fascisme tardif d'Alberto Toscano - 29 décembre / Avec une grosse photo en haut, Positions, Histoire, 2"

This interview was so good we made a zine version to give away today

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is developed from Construct 38, William Morris, Fruit / Alexander Rodchenko, Hard Currency, wallpaper and paper mounted on linen, 2006. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2802-e...

Hoy en el Círculo ↓ Diálogo IMPERIALISMO FÓSIL Con Xan López y Alberto Toscano 19h 🔗 acortar.link/IQmAbl Conferencia INQUEBRANTABLES JUNTO A GAZA Con Sam Rose (@unrwa.org) 19.30h 🎟️ acortar.link/Qp6uD0

One of the wonderful pieces in the special issue of Public Humanities I've been guest editing.

Join Makan & TNI for an online lecture unpacking Adam Hanieh’s analysis of Palestine, regional power, and fossil fuel geopolitics: www.tni.org/en/event/fra...

🚨 LAUNCHING 🚨 State of Power 2026 🚨 Fascism and the far right are on the rise. Beyond headlines, we examine the reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, how they weaponise today’s social and ecological crises, and proposals for how to fight back. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty. Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

"...the Trump admin has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most unilateral & belligerent version—an ultranationalist warrant for the complete repudiation of international law..." @alfatau.bsky.social reports on the US's plunder of Venezuela.

From the abduction of Venezuela’s president to the seizure of its oil, @alfatau.bsky.social traces a chilling new phase of U.S. power—extortion dressed up as policy. As Professor Robert Pape put it, this is ​“Imperialism 101,” a vision of ​“America as predator.” inthesetimes.com/article/empi...

Arrancamos el año con una novedad, ¡grabamos en directo el próximo programa! El jueves 5 de febrero charlaremos con Alberto Toscano (@alfatau.bsky.social) en el @cbamadrid.es sobre Trump y su ambiciones imperiales autocráticas y fósiles. www.circulobellasartes.com/humanidades/...

another great photo bsky.app/profile/carl...

Diacritics (52.4) "Walter Benjamin's Fate and Character" is out! The editors invited a range of scholars from across the humanities to produce theory in a different register: free-wheeling, essayistic, associative, and digressive. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

If you're interested in exploring the writings of Loraux, Zupancic, Butler & others on ancient Greek tragedy, sex, gender, and politics, there's still a few places left on this course, starting Feb 1.

Alors que Trump radicalise sa politique à l’encontre des contestations intérieures et des minorités, s’appuyant sur une colonne répressive à sa botte (ICE), le philosophe Alberto Toscano s’interroge sur la signification de l’antifascisme aujourd’hui 👇 www.contretemps.eu/antifa-parto...

An open letter on the proscription of Palestine Action – defend the right to protest against war and genocide! protestisnotterrorism.uk/2026/01/12/g...

"Secuestros, asesinatos, saqueos, invasiones: son esos los pilares de la «Doctrina Donroe»." communispress.com/imperio-de-l...

Lisboa:: 15/01 @alfatau.bsky.social @ Tigre de Papel tigrepapel.pt/evento/confe...

ESPECIAL 2025 | 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...>

Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator bookshop.org/p/books/prop... Leo Lowenthal (Author),  Norbert Guterman (Author), Alberto Toscano  (Introduction by), et al. Via @bookshop.org

C'est très beau le droit international, mais 1. cela n'a jamais empêché une puissance militaire d'utiliser la force 2. cela n'a jamais permis de sanctionner cet usage 3. cela reflète une hiérarchie de puissances Ce sont des leviers de puissance qu'il faut rechercher désormais pour contenir les USA.

The nobel peace prize committee has to wear this

Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.

Compare Canada’s shitty statement to what France’s Foreign Ministry released. It‘s night and day.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.