Join us for engaging sessions hosted by the DKU HRC Fascism and Everyday Life Initiative:
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Mondays, 3:00–4:30 PM – Performance Cafe
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Thursdays, 4:00–5:00 PM – DKU Book Printing & Production Studio (LIB 3109)
For more information, contact Robin Rodd at rhr10@duke.edu.
Week 1 – What is fascism?
20 October
Macron Federico. 2025. Fascism: The History of a Word. University of Chicago Press.
Paxton, Robert. 2005. The anatomy of fascism. Penguin. Ch 1 Introduction & Ch 8 What is fascism? Pp. 1-23, 206-220.
Traverso, Enzo. 2025. Fascism: Thinking the present with history. Critical times. https://ctjournal.org/2025/06/09/fascism-thinking-the-present-with-history/
23 October
Bianchi, Alvaro & Melo, Demian. 2023. Fascisms: A view from the South. In Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana & Vargas-Maia, Tatiana (eds.) The rise of the radical right in the global south. Routledge. Pp. 15-35.
Gago, Veronica. 2025. New authoritarianism as counter-revolution. Critical times. https://ctjournal.org/in-the-midst-blog/
Gambetti, Zeynep. 2020. Exploratory notes on the origins of new fascisms. Critical times 3(1):1-31. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/3/1/1/165497/Exploratory-Notes-on-the-Origins-of-New-Fascisms
Week 2 – The West has always been fascist: Colonialism, racism, genocide
27 October
Attia, K., Franke, A., Texeira, A. (eds.) 2024. The white West: Fascism, unreason and the paradox of modernity. Sternberg Press.
Césaire, Aimée. 1955. Discourse on colonialism.
Toscano, Alberto. 2023. Late fascism. Verso. Ch. 2 Racial fascism, Conclusion. Pp. 25-48, pp. 155-160.
30 October
Mishra, Pankaj. 2025. The world after Gaza. Fern Press. Prologue, Epilogue. Pp. 1-20, 273-280.
Loewenstein, Antony. 2023. The Palestine laboratory : How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Scribe. Introduction, Ch. 4: Selling Israeli occupation to the world, Ch. 5 The enduring appeal of Israeli domination, Ch 7 Social media companies don’t like Palestiniens. Pp. 1-16, 97-141, 181-205.
Week 4 – Affect and the personality of fascist power
10 November
Massumi, Brian. 2025. The personality of power: A theory of fascism for anti-fascist life. Part 1 Trumping the personality of power. Pp. 1-73.
13 November
Massumi, Brian. 2025. The personality of power: A theory of fascism for anti-fascist life. Part 5 The regime of reaction. Pp. 175-273.
Week 5 – Microfascism and everyday life
17 November
Gambetti, Zeynep. 2022. Immanence, neoliberalism and microfascism: Will we die in silence? In Braidotti, R. & Dophijn, R. (eds.). Deleuze and Guattari and fascism. University of Edinburgh Press. Pp. 39-64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqkzg.7
Herzog, Dagmar. 2025. The new fascist body. E-flux. Vol. 157. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/157/6776787/the-new-fascist-body
Klumbytė, Goda and Athanasiadou, Lila. 2022. Chapter 4 Algorithmic governmentality and managerial fascism: The case of smart cities. Pp. 84-104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqkzg.9
Reich, Wilhelm. 1971 [1946]. The mass psychology of fascism. Trans. Vincent Carfagno. WRM Press.
Week 6 – Techno-feudalism
24 November
Borisonik, H.G. The Rise of Right-Wing Libertarianism and Tech-Solutionism: Argentina’s Milei Phenomenon in Global Context. Nanoethics 19, 18 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-025-00484-x
Durand, Cédric. 2024. How Silicon Valley unleashed techno-feudalism. Verso. Ch. 4 The techno-feudal hypothesis. Pp. 147-198.
27 November
Crary, Jonathan. 2022. Scorched earth: Beyond the digital age to a post-capitalist world. Verso.
Dean, Jodi. 2025. Capital’s grave: Neofeudalism and the new class struggle. Verso. Ch. 3 Neofeudalism’s basic features. Conclusion: The servant vanguard. Pp. 72-105, 128-152.
Vogl, Joseph. 2022. Capital and ressentiment: A brief theory of the present. Polity. Ch. 4 Control Power. Ch. 6 The cunning of ressentiment-driven reason. Pp. 60-83, 114-134.
Week 7- What is anti-fascism?
1 December
Foucault, Michel. 1983. Preface: Introduction to a non-fascist life. In Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Felix, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press. Pp. xi-xiv.
Dolphijn, Rick & Braidotti, Rosi. 2022. Introduction: How to live the anti-fascist life and endure the pain. In Dolphijn, R. & Braidotti, R. (eds.) Deleuze and Guattari and fascism. Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 1-22.
Rolnick, Suely. 2023. Trans. Moya, Sergio Delgado. Spheres of insurrection: Notes on decolonizing the unconscious. Polity. https://consortiumbooks.org/critical-south-series/spheres-of-insurrection-notes-on-decolonizing-the-unconscious/
4 December
Montgomery, Nick & Bergman, Carla. 2017. Joyful militancy: Building thriving resistance in toxic times. AK Press. Ch. 2 Friendship, freedom, ethics, affinity. Ch. 3 Trust and responsibility as common notions. Pp. 81-166.
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