PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION: Fascist Culture and Why the Micro Matters
CHAPTER 1: Autogenetic Sovereignty: Subjectivity and the Violence of Authority
CHAPTER 2: Gender
CHAPTER 3: War: Männerbund and Microfascism
CHAPTER 4: Necrotics: Death and the Microfascist
CHAPTER 5: Platforming Micro-Antifascism
Jack Z. Bratich
is Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He is author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Cultureand coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. He is also a zine librarian at ABC No Rio in New York City.
“On Microfascism stands out as a uniquely important offering, in
which Bratich goes further and deeper than most every text
dedicated to naming and understanding the fascism(s) of today. In
this rigorous and righteous book, Bratich rightly insists on the
insufficiency of seeing fascism only when it arises in State regime
form. Through which subjectivities, practices, hierarchies and
cultural forms do fascistic constellations permeate and grow?
Bratich's razor-sharp analysis provides invaluable answers, and in
so doing, offers a crucial tool for antifascist praxis.—Natasha
Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
“On Microfascism is a profoundly original and compelling analysis
of fascism's deep roots in Western traditions of patriarchy. By
pinpointing the foundational role of the concept of autogenetic
sovereignty and charting its many implications for how we live and
die, Bratich equips readers with the intellectual framework
necessary to wage not only an anti-fascist struggle, but an
anti-microfascist struggle.”—Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The
Anti-Fascist Handbook
“It was hard to miss the wake-up call: fascism is back, no doubt
about it, but in the novel formations of a micro-fascist culture
that is directing the contemporary production of subjectivity. Jack
Bratich not only undertakes a probing analysis of the mechanisms of
the misogynistic, racist death-style of the self-affirming
sovereign micro-fascist subject, but he most importantly proposes a
number of welcome responses for living, to paraphrase Foucault, a
micro-anti-fascist life. This book puts its readers on the path to
such an art of living.”—Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication
and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa,
Canada
“On Microfascism provides crucial insight into the gendered
dynamics and libidinal binds of everyday fascisms. In a devastating
analysis of the necropolitical drive and militarized infatuations
of fascist subjectivity, Bratich highlights the concerted
authoritarian desire for the restoration and renewal of white
supremacist heteropatriarchy. On Microfascismis a generative
companion to such significant and varied studies as Ewa Majewska’s
and Natasha Lennard’s writing on antifascist feminism and Klaus
Theweleit’s classic analysis of the misogynistic psychopathologies
of the German Freikorps.”—Alyosha Goldstein, coeditor of For
Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis
“On Microfascism unpacks the deeply disturbing gender narratives
that underskirt our societies and create an insurgent cruelty that
corrodes our human relationships. This is an incredible
intervention in the crisis we are living through and calls for us
to collectively look deeper when responding to the growth of
misogynist, white supremacist movements.”—Shane Burley, author
of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the
Apocalypse
“Jack Bratich has written a compelling and original discourse on
how microfascism presents itself nowadays and how this is imbued
with misogyny, the cult of death, and violence in many forms, war
included. On Microfascism is a must-read for all scholars and
activists concerned with the historical, political, and social need
to understand in time the real nature and the more or less weak
signs of the emergent dimensions of this political
phenomenon.”—Leopoldina Fortunati, author of The Arcane of
Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital
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