“6 years of non binary God”

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6h ago

Got this in my mailbox this weekend

Opening lecture // K’Universale Lecture Series "Fascist Spaces“ @ KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: "Fascism without the West?“ Alberto Toscano (Simon Fraser University), @alfatau.bsky.social When: November 9th, 2026, 18:15h / 6:15pm CET Where: Online To register, go to: www.ku.de/fascist-spaces

Our interview with Alberto Toscano on Bianet English (@bianet-eng.bsky.social): Alberto Toscano: AI’s 'ontology layer' is being seamlessly integrated into colonial fascist rule bianet.org/haber/albert...

Alberto Toscano: AI’s 'ontology layer' is being seamlessly integrated into colonial fascist rule

We spoke with philosopher and translator Alberto Toscano about the integration of artificial intelligence with war, surveillance, and state apparatuses, the link between colonialism and fascism, and t...

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A short note on philosophy & elections commissioned by some Brazilian comrades. communispress.com/what-do-elec...

What do elections elect?

On capital’s political bipolarity.

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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on the Great Driving Right Show @versobooks.bsky.social — thank you! Let us know what you think, too & check out the hot off the press German translation of Alberto's Terms of Disorder" as „Interregnum" with @unrastverlag.bsky.social

Discussion between Henrike Kohpeiß and Alberto Toscano on the 14th of November in Frankfurt, moderated by Jonathan Rößler. Hosted by detour 6.15pm at 2og:dondorf, Studio 6 Gabriel-Riesser-Weg 3, FFM Come by, bring your friends!

I'll be in Madrid next week, launching Tiempo de monstruos (Siglo XXI), a book drawn from my writing for In These Times over the past couple of years.

Very excited about this event with @hkohpeiss.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social in Frankfurt! Thank you @detourtexte.bsky.social and @ivoeichhorn.bsky.social for hosting, @unrastverlag.bsky.social for support, and @wirklichkeitbooks.bsky.social (Jonas v. Lenthe) for organising this together! 🌹

detour@detourtexte.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us to celebrate the release of the German translation of Alberto Toscano’s Terms of Disorder – published as Interregnum by Unrast Verlag – and Toscano’s own translation of the Italian mythologist Furio Jesi’s 1973 essay The Blood Libel, published by Wirklichkeit Books.

"Sometimes, to paraphrase Gilles Deleuze’s interpretation of Leibniz, we are better served by distinct and obscure ideas than by clear and confused perceptions." – So looking forward to reading this! @wirklichkeitbooks.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social wirklichkeitbooks.com/en/newslette...

Wirklichkeit Books - To Sabotage the Mythological Machine

This November, Wirklichkeit Books is publishing the first-ever English translation of Furio Jesi’s 1973 essay The Blood Libel. The Trial against the J...

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A truly sad day for Gramsci studies with the news that Peter Thomas has died. For reasons indicated at the beginning of the commentary, here is a hastily put together tribute. He is survived by Sara Farris and their two children and my sincerest condolences and deepest sorrow remain with them.

The Peter Thomas Moment - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Political theorist and Professor in History of Political Thought, Brunel University of London whose towering The Gramscian Moment defined Gramsci Studies.

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The plenaries for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London are now announced – see the below poster designed by the wonderful @davidmabb.bsky.social. The programme for the conference will be circulated shortly, we are just making the final tweaks and adjustments.

Out now im @unrastverlag.bsky.social: Meine Übersetzung von Alberto Toscanos (@alfatau.bsky.social) "Terms of Disorder".

The starting time has been amended to 7pm: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Fascism Without the West? With Alberto Toscano

In what sense can we speak of fascisms outside, or even without the West? And how are these fascisms shaped by the changing forms of “Western” (US and European) imperialism?

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Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · last mo.

On 28 September, I'll be speaking at UBC (in dialogue with Gastón Gordillo and Carol Liao) on "Fascism without the West?" and theories of fascism produced outside and beyond the 'Global North' (from Tosaka Jun to Eqbal Ahmad).

On 28 September, I'll be speaking at UBC (in dialogue with Gastón Gordillo and Carol Liao) on "Fascism without the West?" and theories of fascism produced outside and beyond the 'Global North' (from Tosaka Jun to Eqbal Ahmad).

Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. @alfatau.bsky.social examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.

Cuba Under Siege

Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.

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Excited to share a teaser for our upcoming winter term lecture series: “Fascist Spaces/Faschistische Räume“ @KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt With: @alfatau.bsky.social @katonymous.bsky.social @unddieregel.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @fmaschewski.bsky.social Dagmar Herzog Details to come!

Meine Übersetzung von Alberto Toscanos (@alfatau.bsky.social) "Terms of Disorder" erscheint in wenigen Wochen unter dem Titel "Interregnum" im @unrastverlag.bsky.social und ich darf heute das Cover mit euch teilen! Vorbestellt werden kann schon jetzt im lokalen Buchladen eures Vertrauens. 💘

Hey Bay Area friends, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER in Oakland on Sat 9/19 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!

This book has a section near the end called "The Myths of Net Zero and Carbon Removal". Recommended.

History Keeps Happening@historykeeper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Starting in a week. Readings: Nicole Loraux, Freud, Clausewitz, Etienne Balibar, Lenin, C.L.R. James, Simone Weil, Deleuze & Guattari, Alliez & Lazzarato. Registration closing soon. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Philosophy and War - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

War is often associated with irrationality: terms like “the fog of war” and “the heat of battle” gesture at the overcoming of reasoned deliberation by rash, emotionally-charged, and libidinal forces. ...

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What is to be undone? How? With whom? Vishmidt teaches us that "there is no opposition between breaking and building." Infrastructural Critique is an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition. --Alberto Toscano Available for pre-order now!

My translation of (and introduction to) Furio Jesi's 1973 The Blood Libel: The Trial against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany will be out in November with Wirklichkeit Books. wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-blood-li...

Wirklichkeit Books - The Blood Libel

Furio Jesi The Blood Libel The Trial against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany[::cut] Translated and int

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Some reflections on the psychopathology of settler-colonialism and its fascist echoes, via Memmi, Racine, Abdaljawad Omar and André Bazin. communispress.com/the-nero-com...

The Nero Complex

Discerning how usurpation morphs into a new kind of psychic and ideological legitimacy.

communispress.com

Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!

the language of fortitude and even heroism: yes

Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

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

Cominsitu@cominsitu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

new 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.

inthesetimes.com

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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