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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...

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...

Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter "Empire" is out!

Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

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...

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...

Is This (Still) Authoritarianism? IRGAC's Monthly Newsletter

Our latest IRGAC Monthly Newsletter is out:
"Is This (Still) Authoritarianism?"

Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/irgac/p/...

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

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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...

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...

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.

"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...

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.

"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

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.)

"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...

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?

"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...

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...

Titel der Veranstaltung: Was tun - und wie? Dem Autoritarismus von unten begegnen

Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor?

📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a
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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

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.

#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...

"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...

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-...

“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’...

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

Anti-Authoritarian Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (and other news) IRGAC's February Newsletter

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/...

Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South The complete collection of video recordings of our "Contesting Authoritarianism. Perspectives from the South" conference.

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...

„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...

" ... 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...

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...

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...

"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...

Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies This publication brings together over 50 first-hand accounts from anti-authoritarian movements, activists and artists, focusing on the sensuous and emotive dimension of their strategies.

Download the free ebook: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

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

@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).

Das Bild zeigt brennende Buchstaben, die auf dem Boden zu dem Wort „Demokratie“ angeordnet sind. Das Foto stammt von AdobeStock.

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...

A portrait of Iris Hefets

“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst)

🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social

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