#microfascism — Public Fediverse posts
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“ #Groups and #individuals contain #microfascisms just waiting to crystallize.” - Gilles #Deleuze and Felix #Guattari. I wrote about #microfascism and #microantifascism in an essay on two #books for a time of incipient #tyranny. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...
Book Review: Two Books for a T... -
Dying of Whiteness (Boston Review)
Jonathan M. Metzl, 2019"Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities."
"a dominant strain of the electorate voted in politicians whose platforms of American greatness were built on embodied forms of demise."
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"‘Why did the masses desire fascism?’ ... Posed in the context of their attempts to develop a more robust conceptualization of ‘desire’ as a psychosocial force, they suggest that ‘only microfascism provides an answer to the global question: why does desire desire its own repression, how can it desire its own repression?’ (Deleuze and Guattari 2005, 215)"
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Understanding microfascism: reading Deleuze and Guattari alongside management guru texts
Sideeq Mohammed (2019) Culture and Organization"the desire for fascism, power, conformity, and rule-following of which Deleuze and Guattari speak offers a productive way of understanding the success of the management guru and the broader allure of the management advice industry."