Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova's Interview on "Crowd, Power and
Post-democracy in the 21st Century @ Obsolete Capitalism
Rural fascism and city or neighborhood fascism, youth fascism and war
veteran's fascism... fascism of the couple, family, school, and office.
Only the micro-fascism can answer the global question: "why does desire
long for its repression? how can it desires its very own
repression?"—Gilles Deleuze, Fèlix Guattari, A thousand plateaus, pg.271
On the micro-fascism
Obsolete Capitalism Let us start from the analysis Wu Ming set out in
their brief essay Grillismo: Yet another right-wing cult coming from
Italy and which interprets Grillo’s Five Star Movement as a new
authoritarian right-wing faction. Why did the desire for change of much
of the electorate long once again for its very repression? We seem to
witness the re-affirmation of Wilhelm Reich’s thought: at a given moment
in history the masses wanted fascism. The masses have not been deceived:
they have understood very well the danger of authoritarianism; but they
have voted it anyway. Even more worrying is that the authoritarian
Berlusconi's Freedom People (PDL) and Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S)
conquer more than half of the Italian electorate together. A very
similar situation arose in the UK in May 2013, with the UKIP’s exploit
in the latest local elections. Why and in what measure are the toxins of
authoritarianism and micro-fascism present in contemporary European society?
more…
http://rizomatika.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/luciana-parisi-and-tiziana-terranovas.html
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