As the arrests in Berlin show, the state has stepped up its technological armament and surveillance. Agamben was one of the first to warn of the dangers of biometric facial recognition. Among millions of facial photos, the algorithms unerringly filter […]
On the question of state fascization.
“The former fascists have given in to the democratic game and handed over their flags and swastikas to some crazy people. And why not? That is the way of the men of power. Gossip comes and goes, political realism is
Poverty policy, new fascism and white-washing of racism
The abrupt appearance of fascist, ultranationalist, racial separatist, and authoritarian movements throughout the world in the last five years—and their success in coming to power through “democratic” electoral processes—is truly terrifying. At no time since the 1930’s have we seen
For Felix Guattari, already at the beginning of the age of digitalized mobility in the 1980s, it seemed clear as daylight that large parts of the population, which today we call the global surplus population, “are assigned a corner on
Mbembe: Nanoracism and Narcotherapy
The following article is an interview with Shirin Kamangar by Warren Montag and Joseph Serrano and was published first here on November 28, 2022. 1. You have argued that the recent revolt in Iran, while initially focused on the mandatory hijab, was preceded by
Crisis and Revolt in Iran Today
his is the translation of a report first published by our sister organization Manjanigh with some additional information on the history and physical structure of the Evin prison for English readers not familiar with the prison’s context. This report is
Iman Ganji and Jose Rosales . On September 13, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini,1 a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested and detained by the Iranian “morality police”2 while visiting Tehran with her family from Saqqez (in Iran’s Kurdistan Province). Her charge: allegedly violating the law
Tomorrow Was Shahrivar 1401: Notes on the Iranian Uprisings
…suicide is the decisive political act of our times.― Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Precarious RhapsodyIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.― Emile Cioran, The Trouble with being Born Base materialism begins in the tomb, a world
The Suicidal Civilization: Technopessimism and the Coming Collapse
But it is different with the Ukrainian war, not the least because Russia is a nuclearpower. The Yugoslav wars, remaining of a limited regional outreach in spite of theunfortunate NATO intervention in 1999, did not look as a threat to
Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
The new ultraliberal fascist policies of the elites make the world with the help of the security dispositif Corona also spatially to a monstrous camp. Only the capital and the elites themselves should still circulate freely. One usually knows that
… Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another,
Benefiting from huge media coverage, the far right and a mainstream right drifting towards it now seem to have a new champion for the presidential election next spring in the person of Éric Zemmour. If it is not certain that