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Iran is going through dramatic times, from Jin, Jiyan, Azadî to the brutal January massacre and the illegal war waged by Israel and the US. Nader Talebi reflects on tensions and uprisings as a fight to reclaim life. irgac.org/articles/art...
"We should recognize the agency of the Iranian regime and the people who oppose it": Nader Talebi
An interview with Nader Talebi about the Islamic regime and the struggles to reclaim life amid massacres and ongoing war.
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Why are “new” right-wing ideas gaining ground among young people in Latin America? Our article shows how discourses of security, order, and meritocracy resonate in times of crisis— often recycling older authoritarian logics. Read it on our website: irgac.org/articles/Art...
New generations and (not so) new authoritarianism in Bolivia
The rise of right-wing discourses in Latin America presents itself as a promise of change, appealing to meritocracy, pragmatism, and economic recovery. Yet behind this language of renewal lies a famil...
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Read our latest article on self-help culture and how it is not simply a digital trend, but an echo of authoritarian politics: irgac.org/articles/sel...
SELF-HELP’S AUTHORITARIAN EDGE
The explosive growth of social media self-help culture promises quick solutions to intimate crises, from restoring “feminine energy” to reclaiming “masculine power.” Yet beneath its language of empowe...
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New interview on our website with Şebnem Oğuz describing the concept of late fascism that differs not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism, but also from classical fascism. Read it here: irgac.org/articles/art...
Late fascism as a mode of crisis management: An Interview with Şebnem Oğuz
Şebnem Oğuz examines late fascism as a contemporary mode of crisis management, distinct not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism but also from classical fascism. How does capi...
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Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter "Empire" is out! Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...
Call for Applications for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism. More information on our Website: irgac.org/calls/rethin...
Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism
CfA for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): The spaces of sovereignty and the territories of capital and power are being radically redefined. Where is Empire produced an...
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Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter is out: "Is This (Still) Authoritarianism?" Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...
Is This (Still) Authoritarianism?
IRGAC's Monthly Newsletter
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Just six years after the Estallido Social’s uprising against neoliberal austerity, José Antonio Kast, has ridden a wave of right-wing radicalization to the presidency. Our essay of the week examines the rise of the Chilean far-right. By Luciano S. Hoces in @irgac-rls.bsky.social buff.ly/PpjaJD1
Call for applications! @irgac-rls.bsky.social is inviting applications for two three-year PhD fellowships open to citizens of ODA-recipient countries residing outside Europe, the USA, and Canada. Find out more and how to apply: rosalux.nyc/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: The Authoritarian Appeal - RLS-NYC
Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: The Authoritarian Appeal The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), a joint initiative of the Rosa-Luxembu...
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"The genocide of the Palestinian people cannot be understood without recognising how Judaism is weaponised by the State of Israel, which has turned it into a means for domination. But Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination." Ariel Feldman in irgac.org/articles/war...
War on Identity: Notes on Zionism, Judaism and Genocide
Israel has weaponised Judaism and exploits it as a means for domination while systematically dehumanising Palestinians. However, Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination.
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"In #Gaza all of us are being told: Look, this can be done, because the law no longer exists. today, the law is the power of death, and whoever has that power is the law. That is why I say that we are all Palestine." Our #interview with Rita Segato: irgac.org/articles/rit... @boerriesn.bsky.social
Rita Segato: "Gaza is a watershed moment, and the left is falling behind"
Interview with Argentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato on violence, coloniality, race, the fascist moment, and the feminist movement.
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From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...
Wichtiger Text von Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World; The Choice of Civil War, mit Christian Laval) über den Zusammenhang von neoliberaler Entrechtung von Arbeiter*innen und faschistischer Gewaltausübung. (Engl.)
IRGAC@irgac-rls.bsky.social · last yr."Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle. irgac.org/articles/pie...
"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle. irgac.org/articles/pie...
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"Far-right movements have emerged as new interlocutors for adolescents unwilling to accept the passivity offered by late neoliberalism. They promise quick exits from poverty and suffering, specifically to young men." Paülah Shabel on #money, #youth and the far-right: irgac.org/articles/pos...
Post-Fascism for Adolescents
What place does youth have on a planet that’s ending every day? What does the future generation dream about when no one expects the future?
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Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...
Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor? 📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a 1/6
Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social
#Fascism successfully channels fears and anxieties towards social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of #care stands as a defiant response to that - as survival, resistance, imagination. @ffarvardin.bsky.social and Gustavo Robles on the subversive and creative potential of care: irgac.org/articles/fro...
From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares
The far right successfully channels fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that.
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"In rasantem Tempo wird die Welt undemokratischer, ungleicher, rauer und weniger rechtsstaatlich." Im neuen Südlink 211 über "Die autoritäre Gefahr" analysiert @boerriesn.bsky.social die neue "Zeit der Monster" und mögliche Gegenstrategien: www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...
Die Hoffnung zurückgewinnen
Weltweit sind autoritäre Politiken auf dem Vormarsch.
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We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students! --> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
After two weeks of struggle and wildcat strikes in #Turkey, the leader of Birtek-Sen (Textile Workers’ Union), Mehmet Türkmen, was detained and arrested. We interviewed him recently: irgac.org/articles/we-... #FreeMehmetTürkmenNow #BirtekSen
“We Need a Flood!” – A Young and Independent Union’s Struggle in and through Waves of Local Strikes
In this interview, we talk to Mehmet Türkmen, President of the United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union (Birtek-Sen), which is an independent trade union founded in Gaziantep, one of Turkey’...
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Read our February newsletter: Learn about music and counterculture in #Palestine & the world | Get your copy of our 100% free and infinitely reproductible #antifascist exhibition | Read on South-South Justice | and more! open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...
Anti-Authoritarian Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (and other news)
IRGAC's February Newsletter
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Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge simultaneously all around the world? We discussed with @gambettiz.bsky.social, @hfanton.bsky.social, Alex Demirovic and @boerriesn.bsky.social during our "Contesting Authoritarianism" Conference. Watch this and other discussions irgac.org/articles/con...
Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South
The complete collection of video recordings of our "Contesting Authoritarianism. Perspectives from the South" conference.
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" ... to fight an insurrection, you need another insurrection. It is not by placing the left as the party of the order that we will stop this process." Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever. irgac.org/articles/bra...
„Brazil is experiencing a fascist uprising“ Interview with Vladimir Safatle
On January 8, more than 4,000 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded, looted, and vandalized public buildings, in what the professor Vladimir Safatle claims to be a "fascist i...
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Resentment and rage are often seen as undesirable for politics, producing anger, hatred, and desire for revenge. But rage can also lead to revolutionary practices. Where do anger, rage & resentment come from? What makes them different? How are they channeled politically? irgac.org/articles/res...
Resentment and Rage as Two Reactions to Violence
Rabies is a virus produced in mammals, transmitted by salivary contact, but in Spanish the word rabia is often used to connote anger, irritation, hatred, ill will, and desire for revenge. This rage of...
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"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano) >Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
We are presenting our book and exhibition #BeyondMolotovs on strategies against authoritarianism in Lisboa, together with Criar Cidade & Jornal Mapa. Don't miss it. Casado Comun, January 31
Kitti Baracsi@baracsikitti.bsky.social · 2y agoBeyond Molotovs em Lisboa 31/01 Casa do Comum A coop. Criar Cidade e o Jornal Mapa juntam-se para apresentar Beyond Molotovs-A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies, um livro que reúne relatos de movimentos, ativistas, artistas e académicos, centrando-se na dimensão sensorial e emocional.
@boerriesn.bsky.social talked with our colleagues at @unipotsdam.bsky.social about the authoritarian transformation and counterstrategies, and our current and upcoming work (in German only).
Universität Potsdam@unipotsdam.bsky.social · 2y agoKippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...