ON MICROFASCISM

Z., BRATICH, JACK

ISBN 10: 1942173490 / ISBN 13: 9781942173496

Published by Common Notions, 2022

Seller Inventory # NWUS9781942173496

Synopsis:

Rooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.

Fascist and reactionary populist forces have undeniably swelled in the US in recent years. To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and public expressions. To do this, Jack Bratich asserts, we must dig deeper into the psyche and body that gives rise to fascist formations. There we will find microfascism, or the cultural ways in which a fascist understanding of the world is generated from the hatreds that suffuse everyday life. By highlighting the misogyny at fascism’s core, we are able to observe a key process in the formation of a fascist body. Recognizing the microfascism behind appeals to recover the past glory of white male subjects created by earlier foundational wars, we see how histories of settler colonialism, genocide, and domination are animating the deadly mission of fascism today. By focusing on the variety of ways the resurgent fascist tendency courts its own destruction (and demands the destruction of others), we can trace how fascism refines and expands the death and annihilation that underpins capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems.

About the Author: Jack Z. Bratich is Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He takes a critical approach to the intersection of popular culture and political culture. He is author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture and coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. He is also a zine librarian at ABC No Rio in New York City.

Bibliographic Details

Title: ON MICROFASCISM
Publisher: Common Notions
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: NEW