Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism

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by  Rick Dolphijn, Rosi Braidotti (eds.)

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Contents
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: How to Live the Anti-fascist Life and Endure
the Pain 1
Rick Dolphijn and Rosi Braidotti
Part I Twenty-first-century Fascisms
1 Human Nature and Anti-fascist Living 23
John Protevi
2 Immanence, Neoliberalism, Microfascism: Will We Die in
Silence? 39
Zeynep Gambetti
3 Generative Contaminations: Biohacking as a Method for
Instituting an Affirmative Politics of Life 65
Christian Alonso
4 Algorithmic Governmentality and Managerial Fascism: The
Case of Smart Cities 84
Goda Klumbytė and Lila Athanasiadou
5 The Two Cartographies: A Posthumanist Approach to
Geomatics Education 105
Siddique Motala
6 The Theatre of Everyday Debt-Cruelty: The Enfleshed
Threat, Missing People and the Unbearable Strange Terrorist
Machine 125
Shiva Zarabadi
7 Giving Grace: Human Exceptionalism as Fascism 144
Patricia MacCormack
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Part II Situated Fascisms
8 Colonial Fascism: Redemption, Forgiveness and Excolonialism 159
Simone Bignall
9 Escaping Pro-life Neo-fascism in Italy: Affirmative and
Collective Lines of Flight 186
Angela Balzano
10 Nomadism Reterritorialised: The Lessons of Fascism Debates
in Korea 208
W oosung Kang
11 Cancerous Silence and Fascism: The Spanish Politics of
Forgetting 234
Mónica Cano Abadía
12 The Wounds of Europe: The Life of Joë Bousquet 252
Rick Dolphijn
13 Fascistophilic Epidemics: Transpositions on the Shiite
Medico-Religious Imagination 267
Arash Ghajarjazi
14 An Athens Yet to Come 285
Stavros Kousoulas
Part III Patriarchal Fascism
15 Fascism and the Entangled Subject, or How to Resist Fascist
Toxicity 305
Christine Daigle
16 Reclaiming Vital Materialism’s Affirmative, Anti-fascist
Powers: A Deleuzo-Guattarian New Materialist Exploration
of the Fascist Within 321
Delphi Carstens and Evelien Geerts
17 ‘Soy Boy’, Ecology and the Fascist Imaginary 341
Ruth Clemens and Becket Flannery
18 Pussy Riot vs. Trump: Becoming Woman to Resist Becoming
Fascist 362
N atalie Dyer, Hollie Mackenzie, Diana Teggi, Patricia de
Vries
Notes on Contributors 380
Index 389
List of Illustrations

Illustrations
Figures 2.1– 2.3 T he distinction between a constitutional
state, a repressive authoritarian state and a
fascist totalitarian state. 50
Figure 5.1 L ocations of the first free burgher farms at
the Cape. 110
Figure 5.2 C arte de la baye de la Table (map of Table
Bay). 111
Figure 5.3 L ocation of Van Riebeeck’s boundary
overlaid on a dot density map. 114
Figure 5.4 The model apartheid city. 118
Figure 6.1 A nti-terrorist hotline poster released by
the National Counter Terrorism Security
Office, 2017. 127
Figure 6.2 F irst terror mapping (PhEmaterialisim
Conference, UCL Institute of Education,
June 2018; <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/
events/2018/jun/phematerialism-2-matter-
realising-pedagogical-and-methodological-
interferences-terror-and-violence>) 129
Figure 6.3 R emapping the mapped terror walk
(Sociology of Education master class,
Institute of Education, October 2018). 129
Figure 6.4 Red fabricated gap (June 2018). 135
Figure 6.5 F abricated gap re-mattered with more
affected data (October 2018). 135
Figure 6.6 T he mapped foot of a past entanglement
with terror (June 2018). 139
Figure 6.7 T he mapped foot grows into a present
affective entanglement (October 2018). 139
viii Illustrations
Figure 9.1 Greimas semiotic square: ‘The uprising of
bodies: through pro-life neo-fascism to
non-fascist life’. 187
Figure 9.2 Pro Vita poster against abortion, Gregorio VII
Street, Rome, 2018. 188
Figure 9.3 Forza Nuova parade banner against abortion
outside the International Women’s House,
Rome, 2018. 192
Figure 9.4 Italian Ministry of Health, National Fertility
Plan (NFP) posters, 2016. 195
Figure 9.5 Italian Ministry of Health, National Fertility
Plan (NFP) poster, 2016. 197
Figure 9.6 Favolosa Coalizione, Sfertility Game, 2016. 200
Figure 9.7 Favolosa Coalizione, Sfertility Game, 2016. 201
Figure 9.8 La Mala Educación and Non Una di Meno,
Handmaid Performance, 26 May 2018, Bologna. 202
Figure 9.9 La Mala Educación and Non Una di Meno,
Handmaid Performance, 26 May 2018, Bologna. 203
Figure 12.1 Joë Bousquet in his room around 1940,
photographer unknown. 252
Figure 13.1 A V. Cholerae bacterium in its active mode, with
a fully grown tail. 276
Figure 13.2 The Tobacco Protest at the royal palace in
Tehran. Anonymous artist, drawing printed in
The Graphic, February 1892. 279
Figure 13.3 The face of the mullah, which was said to have
been spotted on the surface of the moon during
the first few years after the revolution. 281
Figure 13.4 Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in the state
mourning arena in August 2020. 282
Figure 17.1 The number of Google searches for ‘Soy Boy’ in
the US from 2013 to 2018. 350
Abbreviations Abbreviations
Abbreviations

Abbreviations
AO Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. R. Hurley,
M. Seem and H. R. Lane, with a preface by M. Foucault and an
introduction by M. Seem, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1977. Translation of L’Anti-Oedipe: Capitalisme et schizo-
phrénie I, Paris: Minuit, 1972.
B Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism, trans. H. Tomlinson and
B. Habberjam, New York: Zone Books, 1991. Translation of Le
Bergsonisme, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966.
C1 Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement Image, trans.
H.  Tomlinson and B. Habberjam, London: Athlone, 1986.
Translation of Cinéma 1, L’Image Mouvement, Paris: Minuit,
1983.
C2 Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time Image, trans. H. Tomlinson
and R. Galeta, London: Athlone, 1989. Translation of Cinéma 2,
L’Image-Temps, Paris: Minuit, 1985.
CC Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. D. W. Smith
and M. A. Greco, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1997. Translation of Critique et Clinique, Paris: Minuit, 1993.
CM Félix Guattari, Chaosmosis, an Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm, trans.
P. Bains and J. Pefanis, Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1995. Translation of Chaosmose, Paris: Galilée, 1992.
CS Félix Guattari, Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972–1977,
trans. D. L. Sweet, ed. S. Lotringer, introduction by F. Dosse, Los
Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009.
D Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. H. Tomlinson
and B. Habberjam, New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Translation of Dialogues, Paris: Flammarion, 1977.
DI Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953–1974, trans.
M. Taormina, ed. D. Lapoujade, New York: Semiotext(e), 2004.
x Abbreviations
DR Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. P. Patton,
New  York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Translation of
Différance et répétition, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1968.
EP Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans.
M.  Joughin, New York: Zone Books, 1992. Translation of
Spinoza et le problème de l’expression, Paris: Minuit, 1968.
ES Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s
Theory of Human Nature, trans. C. V. Boundas, New York:
Columbia University Press, 1991. Translation of Empiricisme et
Subjectivité. Essai sur la Nature Humaine selon Hume, Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 1953.
F Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, trans. S. Hand, Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1988. Translation of Foucault, Paris: Minuit,
1986.
FB Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, trans.
D. W. Smith, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Translation of Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation, Paris:
Editions du Seuil, 1981.
K Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor
Literature, trans. D. Polan, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1986. Translation of Kafka: pour un literature mineure,
Paris: Minuit, 1975.
LF Félix Guattari, Lines of Flight: For Another World of Possibilities,
London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
LO Gilles Deleuze, Letters and Other Texts, trans. A. Hodges, ed.
D. Lapoujade, South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e). Translation of
Lettres et autres textes, Paris: Minuit, 2015.
LS Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, trans. M. Lester, with
C. Stivale, ed. C. V. Boundas, New York: Columbia University
Press, 1990. Translation of Logique du sens, Paris: Minuit, 1969.
MR Félix Guattari, Molecular Revolution. Psychiatry and Politics,
London: Puffin, 1984.
NP Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. H. Tomlinson,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Translation
of Nietzsche et la philosophie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 1962.
OL Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, On the Line, New York:
Semiotext(e), 1983.
PI Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence, Essays on A Life, trans.
A. Boyman, New York: Zone Books, 2001.