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).
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"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."
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"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."
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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...
publicseminar.org Adam Koehler Brown: This book gets us into a discussion of fascist body politics in the past and the present. And, at least from my reading, there are two key ideas that you're introducing: the phenomenon you call "sexy racism" and this obsessive hostility towards the disabled. One of the interesting notes you make is that these were recurrently twinned across recent German history. Can you say a little bit about what those individual concepts mean and the way they come together in German history? Dagmar Herzog: For a long time, the standard checklist of what makes a fascism, or how you recognize one, included extreme nationalism, terroristic violence against political opponents and minorities, and knowledge control through both propaganda and censorship. And those are important; we're definitely seeing those happening. But what I've always thought was unsatisfying was this idea that people are seeking subordination, when I really think that what fascism offers is the promise of pleasure and the promise of a sense of superiority. It's flattering to the in-group and it's also permission-giving, above all permitting cruelty towards the weak.
publicseminar.org This goes way back to before the Nazis, back even to the 1890s. Alfred Ploetz, the man who invents the term "Rassenhygiene," or racial hygiene, as the German equivalent of eugenics, the Anglo-American term, is actually combining hostility to the disabled with the promise of sexual transgressive pleasure. And that doubleness, that combination, becomes the Nazi program. The idea that if the Germans just kill off the weak and vulnerable, then they will become strong and beautiful and smart.
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-...
Illustration of a person blowing a whistle, wearing a cap with an "ICE" symbol crossed out. A figure in green tactical gear watches, creating tension.
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.
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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
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29 décembre
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Avec une grosse photo en haut,
Positions,
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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.
Illustration of three soldiers in purple uniforms holding rifles, standing near an oil pumpjack and a burning gas flare, set against an orange and purple sky.
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...
Margen de Maniobra: Imperialismo Fósil Alberto Toscano Xan López Círculo de Bellas Artes, Sala María Zambrano 5 de febrero 2026, 19:00, Madrid
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
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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...
