"Designating antifascist organizing as foreign terrorism could unleash a limitless repressive arsenal, and the government is happy to apply the label to the most diverse targets—from Greek anarchists to Americans blowing whistles at immigration raids.” New from @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

"The current form of technics, namely that artificial intelligence which aims to objectivate cognitive processes and self-reflection, can be better understood and more radically criticized if contrasted with the child’s learning of the world." www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

❕NEW RELEASE ❔ 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲? w/ 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗼, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼, 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗢’ 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘂́, 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲, 𝗧𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 & 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲 & 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗺 𝗭. 𝗔𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶 ✦ PRE-ORDER ✦ aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update

Tomorrow online: Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Racial pessimism and capitalist stagnation: The ghosts in the technofascist machine" 6pm (CET, c.t.) Link: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prompting-fa...

I'll be teaching this course in February - we'll be reading Nicole Loraux, Simone Weil, Alenka Zupancic, Aeschylus and Euripides, inter alia, and thinking about sex, gender and the political limits of tragedy. Tragedy’s Women: Feminism, Politics, and Drama | BISR Online buff.ly/8nOeLqh

Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.

wow after so many years, it looks like this volume is finally out! really excited to dig in to intense theorization on questions of ideology. Includes chapters by Massamiliano Tomba, Elisabeth Anker, Adam Kotsko, Alberto Toscano, and so many more! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

As COP30 unfolds, authors of "The Long Heat," Malm and Carton, warn that “tech fixes” are masking a deeper political crisis: fossil capital still calling the shots. @alfatau.bsky.social speaks with them about the state of climate politics.

"The surging fortunes of the far right are intimately tied to a racist & authoritarian politics that blames immigrants for environmental degradation & will only intensify when climate catastrophe can no longer be denied." @alfatau.bsky.social talks with the authors of The Long Heat @inthesetimes.com

Trump’s “Department of War” is a blueprint for a MAGA crusade that erases the line between military, cultural and religious warfare. @alfatau.bsky.social breaks down Pete Hegseth’s authoritarian vision for endless conflict. inthesetimes.com/article/secr...

"Pete Hegseth’s MAGA vision for the 'Department of War' ultimately makes no distinction between military, social, cultural and religious conflicts." @alfatau.bsky.social on how Hegseth is building "an insidiously indefinite notion of war at the heart of MAGA" @inthesetimes.com.

El Taller: Understanding Modern Fascism with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, discusses what fascism means today, beyond political clichés.

RIP Paolo Virno. He was one of the funniest and warmest philosophers. vimeo.com/112510961?fl...

Se nos ha ido Paolo Virno. Filósofo de la multitud. No hace tanto fue Negri. Qué solos nos estamos quedando. Descansa en paz, caro compagno. Te seguiremos leyendo y vivirás por siempre en nuestro corazón.

Fotos que tomé en Buenos Aires en septiembre de 2006, en una conferencia de Paolo Virno (1952-2025).

Paolo Virno, scomparso a 73 anni, ha saputo pensare il comunismo rileggendo la composizione di classe e le lotte con gli strumenti della filosofia, delle linguistica e dell'antropologia jacobinitalia.it/sostanza-di-...

Paolo Virno 1952-2025

"How are we to understand ... the neo- and hyper-colonial futures through which “peace” and “reconstruction” in Gaza are being framed and implemented?" portolan-journal.org?post=propert...

Yesterday, Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, died at 84. His legacy: torture, secret prisons, and wars that killed millions. @alfatau.bsky.social examines the empire he built—and the impunity he enjoyed. inthesetimes.com/article/dick...

Delighted to announce that Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social agreed to talk in the realm of the lecture series "Prompting Fascism. Medien/Theorien des neuen Faschismus" -> Dec 3rd, 6pm (CET), online. Link and more information soon to find here: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prompting-fa...

They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one! events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...

Dagmar Herzog (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, @historygc.bsky.social), The New Fascist Body (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025; #skystorians): wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-new-fasc...

Dans cet entretien, le philosophe Alberto Toscano - auteur du livre "Fascisme tardif" - revient sur l’histoire du fascisme et défend l’usage actuel de cette catégorie, en particulier dans un monde bouleversé par le génocide en cours à Gaza 👇 www.contretemps.eu/contre-fasci...

When is the No CEOs rally?

"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"

For some prescient thoughts on how this would come to pass, read @alfatau.bsky.social's July piece @inthesetimes.com on how "MAGA’s obsession with reverse racism is the glue binding together" all of Trump's policies.

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation." proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

Another course alert -- it’s a busy month... I’m leading a 4-week online seminar on one of the most important books ever, Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social. Just a few seats remain; check it out and don't miss out thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

"... the history of the term Staatsräson is explicitly a history of violence. It’s about all of these forms of behavior that are not moral but are politically necessary: lying, deceit, violence, expropriation…” communispress.com/unreason-of-...

An interview with Patrick Samzun of the anarchist journal Réfractions, on analyzing & fighting the contemporary far-Right: communispress.com/creative-agg...

Faculty Writing | Abdaljawad Omar, "Water without name " | for @communispress | buff.ly/axPbMVd

"My modest proposal would be an antifascist take on Nietzsche’s idea of becoming who one is: becoming what the far right imagines you to be, realizing their imaginary enemy." communispress.com/become-who-y...

reminder at this anniversary that Jameson's 90th birthday was celebrated with short essays by many many nerds on his many many major books! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

Starting November 12, I'll be teaching a course at BISR on how a tragic anti-colonialism was developed—in theory, practice and dramaturgy—by a range of writers, from Lorraine Hansberry to Frantz Fanon, from C.L.R. James to Anna Seghers, from Aimé Césaire to Ghassan Kanafani.

What looks to be another important critique of Sohn Rethel's real abstraction. (I know i'm old but it blows my mind Constellations has published this!)

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

In conversation with Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Rose Aguilar on political repression in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Postmodern Culture Volume 34, Number 2, January 2024 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/wnyk7kf4#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS Stephen D. Carter Paul Earlie Sungyong Ahn Rashmi Varma Anna Bernard Brenna Bhandar Timothy Brennan John Cox Nadia Hajal-Backleh Rohini Hensman and more!

A "super-Sparta" undergirded by a "flexible" economy centred on weapons production and with "autarkic characteristics", grounded on the principle that ethno-national "life is more important than law". The unabashed rhetoric and practice of 21st century fascism. haaretz.co.il/tmr/allnews/...

Awaiting arrest for holding a placard in support of Palestine Action protestors read, Selected Political Writings by Ghassan Kanafani, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Late Facism by Alberto Toscano Wilding by Isabella Tree among other books

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...

The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Alberto Toscano: “Hay un colapso simbólico del supremacismo occidental en su forma liberal”. Tuve la suerte de tener esta conversación sobre nuestro tiempo con el autor de un gran ensayo acerca de la nueva extrema derecha. Fotos de @aminguito.bsky.social www.elsaltodiario.com/pensamiento/...

“[A] blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development.” theguardian.com/world/2025/s... proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

Our Long Arc of Fascism Teach-In with @ccms-sfu.bsky.social in April brought people together to workshop how best to be engaged and move forward. Recordings from the sessions now up on our YouTube channel - highlights from this wonderful day of action here: youtu.be/JGYSvNEMKj4?...