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Tune in to the Common Notions YouTube channel for a lively presentation of On Microfascism inspires a dialogue on feminist, antirascist, and abolitionist perspectives on the antifascist culture we're creating for a dignified and safe world for all—and the cultural dimensions of patriarchy, white supremacy, and nationalism that makes fascism part of every fight we have to confront in order to live. With @jbratich and Victoria Law. #antifa #antifacist #feminist
Making Worlds Book Launch and Discussion: Against Microfascism
Making Worlds is excited to host a lively presentation of "On Microfascism," a book that inspires dialogue on antifascist and abolitionist perspectives on the antifascist culture we're creating for a dignified and safe world for all—and the cultural dimensions of patriarchy, white supremacy, and nationalism that makes fascism part of every fight we have to confront in order to live. With Jack Z. Bratich in conversation with Victoria Law.
Jack Z. Bratich is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. In addition to On Microfascism, he is also author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture and coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality.
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She is the author of Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration and regularly covers prison issues for Truthout and other outlets. Her latest book, Prison By Any Other Name, cowritten with Maya Schenwar, critically examines proposed “alternatives” to incarceration and explores creative and far-reaching solutions to truly end mass incarceration.
Advanced Registration Required: https://bit.ly/3KvNEdO
Making Worlds Seminar: Thinking through and against Microfascism
How do we develop antifascist praxis when the enemy does not appear in organized, recognizable forms?
How deeply rooted in Western culture and subjectivity is fascism? How has gender been both recognized and diminished in analyses of contemporary fascist resurgences?
This seminar begins to answer these questions and others through a collective reading group facilitated by the author of On Microfascism: Gender, War, Death. Over the course of four Fridays, we will meet and work through the analytic and cultural underpinnings of “recent” fascism.
Seminars meet on Fridays from 4pm to 6pm, March 25, April 1, April 8, and April 15. The community seminar is free and open to all levels. There is limited capacity of 15 participants. We prefer that participants attend all four sessions. Registrants will need a copy of On Microfascism, which will be available on special discount. Other reading materials will be provided for free.
Advanced registration is required: https://bit.ly/3KtTKvc
ABOUT THE SEMINAR LEADER
Jack Z. Bratich is professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays about the intersection of popular culture and political culture. He has been a zine librarian at ABC No Rio in New York City and now sits as a member of its advisory board member. He previously co-organized and cotaught (with Stevphen Shukaitis) two seminars at Bluestockings Bookstore: “Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism” and “Affective Politics and the Imagination of Everyday Resistance”
Making Worlds Book Launch and Discussion: Against Microfascism
We are excited to host a lively presentation of "On Microfascism," a book that inspires dialogue on antifascist and abolitionist perspectives on the antifascist culture we're creating for a dignified and safe world for all—and the cultural dimensions of patriarchy, white supremacy, and nationalism that makes fascism part of every fight we have to confront in order to live. With Jack Z. Bratich in conversation with Victoria Law.
Jack Z. Bratich is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. In addition to On Microfascism, he is also author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture and coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality.
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She is the author of Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration and regularly covers prison issues for Truthout and other outlets. Her latest book, Prison By Any Other Name, cowritten with Maya Schenwar, critically examines proposed “alternatives” to incarceration and explores creative and far-reaching solutions to truly end mass incarceration.
Advanced Registration Required: https://bit.ly/3KvNEdO
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—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch. “Weaving together memories, poetry, stories, analysis, art, and activist praxis, Feminicide and Global Accumulation charts a new and irresistible future for anticapitalist feminist struggle. A book that belongs on the bookshelves of all progressive, left, decolonial scholar-activists.”
—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders
An anthology-in-action for an uprising that remains unfinished.
An anthology-in-action for an uprising that remains unfinished.
We are devastated to hear about the passing of Jennifer Bennetch, an ineffable organizing force in the struggle for housing justice and contributor in HOW WE STAY FREE.
Her pioneering work in the housing encampment last summer is powerfully documented in her timeline of camps JTD and Teddy that she was a part of during the uprisings of 2020.
We ask that, if you have the means, to donate to her family’s gofundme to support her three children. Link in bio
Check out @phillyinquirer today for a piece about HOW WE STAY FREE featuring the editors and contributors!
Check out the @phillyinquirer today for a piece featuring editors and contributors of HOW WE STAY FREE!
And don’t miss tonight’s event on the book with @asianartsphilly
Happy Valentine’s Day comrades!!!
Happy #pubday to How We Stay Free: Notes On A Black Uprising, the first book to gather voices from the 2020 uprising for Black lives and capture this essential history.
Online seats still available for How We Stay Free launch event Saturday Feb 5 @ 1pm. Head to the #commonnotions website for details. And pick up (& give!) copies with a special discount during the event. #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #blackliberation #abolition #solidarity #indiepublishing #freedom #georgefloyd #brionnataylor Photo by @callmejazriley edited by @justmaybechris @fajrmuhammad @robesonhousephl
How We Stay FREE: Notes on a Black Uprising
Join our solidarity campaign to give 250 books to students, elders, organizers, and political prisoners
www.commonnotions.org/HWSF-solidarity
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ANNOUNCING THE #HowWeStayFree LAUNCH! 2/5 at Making Worlds Bookstore! Join editors + contributors in celebration of this anthology-in-action of the culture and politics of Black liberation. Limited in-person gathering and global livestream w/
Common Notions. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-we-stay-free-book-launch-registration-247375876907
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Making Worlds to cover costs and labor to produce the event. For in person attendance, please be mindful that you'll need to meet the COVID policy to advance health and safety for us all. See more on Eventbrite.
We invite everyone to please join our Solidarity Campaign as we work to get at least 250 books to students, elders, organizers, and political prisoners! By selecting one of the packs bellow we will get this book into the hands of Philly’s freedom fighters. PRE-ORDER: https://commonnotions.org/hwsf-solidarity
New book days are the best days, especially when its Jack Bratich's new book on microfascism just out on Common Notions!
"To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and public expressions. To do this, Jack Bratich asserts, we must dig deeper into the psyche and body that gives rise to fascist formations. There we will find microfascism, or the cultural ways in which a fascist understanding of the world is generated from the hatreds that suffuse everyday life."
#readrevoltrepeat
On January 6th the people who stormed the Capitol did not come from nowhere. And they did not go away.
Read an excerpt ”How the Fascists Gathered Before, During, and After Jan 6” on the Common Notions blog
On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death by Jack Z. Bratich is out now!
#antifa #Jan6 #necropolitics #misogyny #warriorculture
On January 6th the people who stormed the Capitol did not come from nowhere. And they did not go away.
Read an excerpt ”How the Fascists Gathered Before, During, and After Jan 6” on the Common Notions blog
On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death by Jack Z. Bratich is out now!
#antifa #Jan6 #necropolitics #misogyny #warriorculture
OUT TODAY!
Rooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.
To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and public expressions. To do this, Jack Bratich asserts, we must dig deeper into the psyche and body that gives rise to fascist formations. There we will find microfascism, or the cultural ways in which a fascist understanding of the world is generated from the hatreds that suffuse everyday life.
By highlighting the misogyny at fascism’s core, we are able to observe a key process in the formation of a fascist body. Recognizing the microfascism behind appeals to recover the past glory of white male subjects created by earlier foundational wars, we see how histories of settler colonialism, genocide, and domination are animating the deadly mission of fascism today. Get your copy thru the link in bio or wherever good books are sold.
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