Fascism of Ambiguity

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden.

• Foreword, by Jean-Luc NancyPreface1. Lessons From History: Mussolini’s Fascism2. Lessons From Critique: Some Elements for a Critique of Historical Fascism3. Neofascism: Pasolini’s Cine-Poetic Vision4. The Fascism Of Ambiguity5. The Ambiguity Of Sense6. Metapolitics7. Precision Exercise I: The Precision Of Poetry: Orides Fontela8. Precision Exercise II: Towards Listening to the Ligatures of the Present9. By Way of ConclusionIndex

With a precise sense of the stakes and undertow of current destructions of meaning, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback taps architectures of sense and exposes the overall will to make and break sense. Her writing explores the manipulation of significations and values associated with fascism and its mutating offshoots. This work uniquely delivers a crucial reboot based, in part, on the thinking of Jean-Luc Nancy. Timely, knock-out, and brilliant.It takes on the conservative pushback that plagues our ways of thinking through identity and race. Her HQ is located in the populist literatures of original peoples, an outpost from which she reevaluates Hannah Arendt’s theorems on crucial totalitarian junctures by means of digital technics, robotics, AI, and other algorithms of technological immediacy. She meets the Nietzschean criterion of explaining and eliminating toxic spillovers of destructive grammars and behaviors of the human.