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.

If Canada was the 51st State this would be our Vichy Gov’s official statement:

Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

In Issue V, Alberto Toscano read the works of Italian thinkers and Jewish leftists Franco Fortini and Furio Jesi, who grappled with the ethical necessity of confronting Zionism as an ideology that has “technicized” religio-historical myth. proteanmag.com/2025/06/22/z...

In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar’s “Slumlord Empire” from February, Alberto Toscano further analyzed the Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan and its genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation. proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

If you appreciate investigations like these from @ottavias.bsky.social & @adamfederman.bsky.social, or vital analysis from columnists like @alfatau.bsky.social, please donate or subscribe today, ahead of @inthesetimes.com's 50th anniversary in 2026! Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/eoy_2... Sub:

"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.

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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...