"our age threatens one day to appear ... as marked by the most dramatic and difficult trial of all, the discovery of and training in the meaning of the ‘simplest’ acts of existence: seeing, listening, speaking, reading.” (L. Althusser). My new course at BISR starts June 3.
Illustration of a pink-winged eagle with a white head and talons clutching a rifle in one claw and a missile in the other. Its torso is a black shield marked with an eye inside a triangle, and three surveillance cameras rise from its neck against a pale green background.
"Palantir is creating digital infrastructure for the multiple forms of state violence & control... from the software facilitating mass deportations to the AI wielded in wars against colonized people."
@alfatau.bsky.social explains the drive for domination.
inthesetimes.com/article/pala...
@iliasalami.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social @ami-n.bsky.social @morton.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social @aurelmondon.com @ceaubin.com @awalkergeogs.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social @unsocialtheory.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com
Graphic for an In These Times article titled “The Axis of Chaos,” with the subhead, “The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.” A map of Iran and neighboring countries fills the background, with Tehran and Hamadan visible. In the foreground, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump sit facing each other in white chairs, rendered in high-contrast black and white with a glitch-like effect. Netanyahu gestures toward Trump, and a small In These Times logo appears between them.
From @alfatau.bsky.social about the Trump admin: Such incoherence is par for the course for a president who has variously forecast that the conflict may continue for days, weeks or months—qualified by his claim that the United States could fight "forever."
inthesetimes.com/article/axis...
Episodio 1. La llegada del cisne naranja. A modo de introducción, lo que va desde la crisis de 2008 a Trump.
Con la colaboración de Yago Álvarez, Vincent Bevins, Luciana Cadahia, Laura Camargo, Steven Forti, Fernanda Rodríguez, Alexander Thomas, Alberto Toscano y Miguel Urbán.
elsal.to/47374
🎙La primera entrega de Utopía X cuenta con la colaboración de
@econocabreado.bsky.social
@vincentbevins.bsky.social
@luciana-cadahia.bsky.social
@laurarevolta.bsky.social
@stevenforti.bsky.social
Fernanda Rodríguez,
Alexander Thomas,
@alfatau.bsky.social
y @miguelurban.bsky.social
“Novecento is a monument ... to the contradictions of a communist worldview—between agrarian utopias and a “sense of the State"—which was already alien to the countercultural movements of the 1970s, in search of other celebrations and other liberations."
communispress.com/novecento-at...
i'm not exactly sure what "race communism" is but i'm intrigued and would like to give it a try
"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such..."
"The burden colonizes perception, so that domination appears to emanate from the world’s own structure rather than from any particular will to power."
communispress.com/the-burden-a...
Teaching a course at BISR in June on language and politics, which will focus especially on the writings of Paolo Virno (alongside Lenin, Agamben, Butler et al.).
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Promotional graphic for In These Times January/February 2026, Volume 50, Issue 01. At left is the magazine cover, showing a burning, graffiti-covered car engulfed in flames and smoke. Cover lines include Alberto Toscano on antifascism, Sarah Jaffe on “Capitalism Without Humans,” Sarah Lazare on labor for Gaza, and Mariame Kaba on finding your way. At right is a table of contents listing pieces including “The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza,” “Capitalism Without Humans,” “Antifa Everywhere,” and a feature on anti-LGBTQ policies in Pennsylvania schools.
From strikes for Gaza to organizing against anti-LGBTQ policies & visions beyond capitalist collapse, read work from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @alfatau.bsky.social, @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social & more.
inthesetimes.com/magazine/cap...
Ya disponible el coloquio que organizamos en el @ctpo.bsky.social con el filósofo Alberto Toscano.
No os lo perdáis!! 👇
Still a couple of places left - course starts next week with the interpretation of Césaire's 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.
"It is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs".
I'll be teaching Discourse on Colonialism alongside Césaire's poetry and theatre at BISR beginning April 8. Places still available.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Taught my students about 'fascist affects' today & as I was preparing, I came across a cluster of essays in Tank I'd missed from 2025. Ed. Stefanos Geroulanos; featuring Dagmar Herzog, Zahid Choudhary, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social tank.tv/magazine/iss...
"It is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs".
I'll be teaching Discourse on Colonialism alongside Césaire's poetry and theatre at BISR beginning April 8. Places still available.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Illustrated promotional graphic for the article “Antifa Everywhere.” Large white text on black bars reads, “Antifa Everywhere” and “As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean? By Alberto Toscano.” The background shows a stylized close-up of Donald Trump’s face on the right, with a masked, sunglasses-wearing figure in a cap and tactical-style clothing on the left, rendered in muted blue, green and tan tones.
At Prairieland, federal prosecutors targeted people who weren’t even present—including Daniel Sanchez Estrada, whose alleged crime was transporting anarchist zines.
@alfatau.bsky.social on Trump’s expanding war on dissent:
inthesetimes.com/article/anti...
"Where Trump and his administration appear afflicted by a kind of imperial attention deficit disorder, Israel has laid its objectives bare."
@alfatau.bsky.social reports on Iran and the increasing nihilism in U.S. policy.
Alberto Toscano:
"Where Trump and his administration appear afflicted by a kind of imperial attention deficit disorder, Israel has laid its objectives bare."
inthesetimes.com/article/axis...
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...
A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social
Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence.
@alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.
💥 Antonio Gramsci, el fascismo y la política de crisis
Mañana a las 12:30 estaré dialogando sobre algunas de las cosas que abordo en el libro «La organización de la cultura» con @alfatau.bsky.social en la librería malaletra (Madrid).
"For all their homilies about nation-building, US neocons who advocated for regime change wars in Afghanistan, Iraq & Libya did not shy away from nation-breaking. Similarly, it’s evident Israel's goal is less regime change than state collapse." New from @alfatau.bsky.social at @inthesetimes.com.
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. The cover art is a development of Long Live the New! no. 42, Kazimir Malevich drawing on Morris & Co. design, paint and wallpaper on canvas (2016).
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2787-c...
