Alberto Toscano
@alfatau.bsky.social
"Chi ha compagni non morirà." (Franco Fortini)
the language of fortitude and even heroism: yes
Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · 5d agoe-flux has published an excerpt from Rebecca Comay's wonderful On Persistence, which has just been published by Seagull Books, and which I was honoured to write an afterword for. www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...
e-flux has published an excerpt from Rebecca Comay's wonderful On Persistence, which has just been published by Seagull Books, and which I was honoured to write an afterword for. www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...
On Persistence - Notes - e-flux
Rebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness.
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perfect occasion for a reminder that Toscano's 'Terms of Disorder' will be out in German in October! unrast-verlag.de/produkt/inte... @unrastverlag.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social
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Cominsitu@cominsitu.bsky.social · 3w agonew Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...
The Northeast is sweating through a dangerous heat dome. Meanwhile, climate politics keeps circling around geoengineering instead of the urgent task: stopping emissions at the source. @alfatau.bsky.social speaks with Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social on fossil capital & climate politics.
The Overshoot Presidency and the State of Climate Politics
Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.
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Trump has no coherent endgame, no easy off-ramp, and no solid allied consensus behind him. That’s how endless wars deepen. @alfatau.bsky.social on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, state collapse and unending violence across the region.
The Axis of Chaos
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.
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new Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...
Myth, Fascism, and the Dialectic
On myth’s modern return under the cruel mask of fascism, and the reversion to the ritual of human sacrifice.
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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.
Antifa Everywhere
As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?
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“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)
'Gaining consent by promising force': Late fascism and Gramsci
"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,”...
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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...
Vectors of Fascism
The fish rots from the head down: A fascism endogenous to the liberal State.
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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
Podcast | Episodio 5: Imperialismo, genocidio y negocio. Tambores de guerra
Quinta entrega del podcast sobre extrema derecha de El Salto Radio. Con la colaboración de Ruth Ferrero, Evgeny Morozov, Pedro Ramiro, Miquel Ramos, William I. Robinson, Emmanuel Rodríguez, Olga Rodrí...
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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
Communism in Philosophy
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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.
The Real News Network@therealnews.com · 2mo agoLocked up by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, the prison writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci remain essential and terrifyingly relevant 100 years later. @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com @versobooks.bsky.social
"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.”
Harsha Walia@harshawalia.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
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...
Powers of Speech: Language and Politics - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Ever since the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined the human being both as a political animal (zoon politikon) and as an animal endowed with speech and reason (zoon logon echon), the relations...
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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...
PAOLO VIRNO: Materialist Philosophy in Counter-Revolutionary Times
YouTube video by Red May TV
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"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.
Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · 4mo agoTeaching 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...
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...
Into the Wasteland: A Conversation on Fascism and the Crisis of Capitalism
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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...
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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...
The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory
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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"
Are You a Software Update? - Aksioma
Note dated 26 April 2026 Given the urgency of the topics covered and in order to ensure the widest possible circulation, the editorial team has decided to make the essay They Build to Dominate, or Fas...
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Sam Lavigne@lav.io · 3mo agoLast year @tega.bsky.social and I contributed an essay to the book "Are You a Software Update". For our research, we scraped the names, descriptions, and funding totals of around 17,000 "AI" companies from crunchbase. You can explore this sad, searchable archive for yourself at aicompanies.labr.io
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.
Built to Dominate
Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why.
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“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.”
Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · 3mo agoFive activists charged with trespassing, property damage, and membership in a "criminal organization" under Section 129 of the German Criminal Code for attacking an Elbit arms firm in Ulm last year are being tried today in Stuttgart's notorious Stammheim prison, once the site of the RAF trials.