Event overview
Something that can be thought of as a new Fascist International brings into sharp focus the need for a robust theoretically informed practice of resistance.
The growth of the “new” far Right as exemplified by the rise of the so-called “alt-right”, the recent Brazilian election and the spread of authoritarian governments throughout the Americas and Europe, something that can be thought of as a new Fascist International, brings into sharp focus the need for a robust theoretically informed practice of resistance. A practice that acknowledges the performative way that resistance resists being reduced to a singular concept. A practice that is active and creative, rather than reactive and static. A practice that is able to integrate poetic gestures, irony, humour and play.
Please join Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Susana Caló, Simon Morgan-Wortham and Anthony Faramelli for a conversation on the politics and poetics of resistance. The event will be followed by a wine reception and book launch for Anthony Faramelli’s new monograph Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics (Bloomsbury Philosophy) and Spaces and Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury Philosophy), edited by Rob White, David Hancock and Anthony Faramelli and including contributions by Claire Colebrook, Sheena Culley, Julian Reid, and Fred Botting.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is a Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests include the theory and history of human rights and popular constitutionalism, post-human rights, Latin American history and literature, slavery, anti-slavery, liberties and commons, and phenomenology.
Susana Caló is a researcher and lecturer at Newham College. She obtained her PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University. Her work concerns the relations between language, semiotics, and politics in the work of Félix Guattari, with a particular focus on linking institutional analysis to broader militant, social, and institutional contexts.
Simon Morgan-Wortham is a Professor of Critical Humanities at Kingston University. He has published widely in the areas of continental philosophy, modern European literature and thought, psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
Anthony Faramelli lectures the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a mental health Recovery Co-ordinator at the charity SHP. His research focuses on practices of resistance and operates at the intersection between political theory and history, on the one hand, and, on the other, the legacies of psychoanalytic thought and practice.
Dates & times
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| 23 Nov 2018 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm |
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