On microfascism : gender, war, and death /
Bratich, Jack Z.,1969-author.
On Microfascism uncovers the disturbing composition of the contemporary fascist movement in the United States through its emergent forms.
Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Bratich investigates a political ontology of fascist subjectivity. Before there is a fascist movement, he notes, there is a fascist body that can move or be moved. By highlighting the misogyny at fascism's core and "becoming-man" as a key process of subjectivation we are able to observe the formation of a fascist body enacted through everyday sexism as well as feminicide...By focusing on the variety of ways the resurgent fascist tendency tarries with its own destruction (and thereby the destruction of others) we can trace how fascism refines and expands the necropolitics that underpin capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems...Still, Bratich insists, the new fascism is not as powerful as its adherents wish us to believe. To combat it, we must develop and defend a "micro-antifascism" rooted in the ethics of aid and care in the everyday. --
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Autogenetic sovereignty: subjectivity and the violence of authority -- Gender: ancient misogyny and the microfascist manosphere -- War: männerbund and microfascism -- Necrotics: death and the microfascist -- Platforming micro-antifascism.
On Microfascism uncovers the disturbing composition of the contemporary fascist movement in the United States through its emergent forms.
Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Bratich investigates a political ontology of fascist subjectivity. Before there is a fascist movement, he notes, there is a fascist body that can move or be moved. By highlighting the misogyny at fascism's core and "becoming-man" as a key process of subjectivation we are able to observe the formation of a fascist body enacted through everyday sexism as well as feminicide...By focusing on the variety of ways the resurgent fascist tendency tarries with its own destruction (and thereby the destruction of others) we can trace how fascism refines and expands the necropolitics that underpin capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems...Still, Bratich insists, the new fascism is not as powerful as its adherents wish us to believe. To combat it, we must develop and defend a "micro-antifascism" rooted in the ethics of aid and care in the everyday. --
Fascism
Misogyny.