The psycho-cultural underpinnings of everyday fascism : dialogue as resistance / Marcia Tiburi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiburi, Marcia, author.

Standardized Title:

Como conversar com um fascista. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Brazil.

Fascism.

Brazil.

Authoritarianism.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Politics and government.

Brazil--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 196 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

How to talk to a fascist.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

When the Brazilian public intellectual Marcia Tiburi published How to Talk to a Fascist in 2015, fascism was yet to return to the public consciousness. But Tiburi was motivated by the kind of fascism she was noticing in daily life - people who fail to practise any kind of reflection about society, betraying a pattern of everyday thought characterized by the repetition of cliches and the angry language of hatred. Three years later, Brazil elected the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Now available in English for the first time, this prescient work speaks to our present moment. Fascism is among us once again, evident in the collective expression of exacerbated authoritarianism and the growing hatred against difference and people marked as socially undesirable. Drawing on her own first-hand, brutal encounters, Tiburi connects ways of thinking in Brazil to what is happening around us today and introduces us to the fascist as manipulator, the distorter of other people's speech; fascist as an activist of evil on a daily basis, the one who lives by fostering racism and male-domination and is proud of it. Tiburi takes us beyond formal policies, reinvigorates ideas from the Frankfurt School and refuses to otherize supporters of fascism. Instead she asks what is amiss in their lives that then attracts them to a political project that victimizes them. This powerful book forces us to consider to our actions at a subjective level and changes our way of thinking through issues of hate and divisiveness pervading politics everywhere.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Fascist Rise in Brazil

Grotesque Performance, Machismo and Cynicism

Psycho-Power

Brazil, Neoliberalism and Pandemic

1. How to Talk to Fascists

A Title as a Question

Performativity and the Fascist Language Game

The Act and the Fascist Language Game: Turbofascism

Fascism as Political Technology

The Unbelievable Brazilian Example Among Many Others

Tropical Fascism

About Bolsonaro and Trump, Brazil and the United States

Resentment and Mimicking

The "Wall" as a Xenophobic Ritual in the Age of the Spectacle

Ridiculous as the Core of Fascist Propaganda

2. Potential Fascism

Authoritarian Thinking Regime

Hate for Everyone

Machine to Produce Fascists

The Origin and Transmission of Hatred

Language Consumerism

Paranoia and Ecstasy

Cognitive Deficiency

On Emptiness: Thinking, Feeling, Acting and the Lack Thereof

Cultural Industry of Anti-Politics

The Manipulative Character

Cultural Semi-Training

Capitalist Reductionism

Fascist Rhetoric: Magic Words, Cliches and Distortion

Ready Thought Victims

3. Lynching

Complicity and Murder

The Banality of Death

The Culture of Harassment

The Logic of Rape

Myth and Resentment

Brazil Repressed

The Eurocentric Paradigm

Hermeneutic Violence

The Question of the Other

Paranoia and Self-Referentiality

4. The Effort of Dialogue

Ethics and Subjectivity

A Dialogical Question

A Theoretical-Practical Experiment

Experimentum Crucis

The Digital Misadventure

Mechanical Speaking.

Notes:

Translated from the Portuguese.

First published in 2015 in Brazil as "Como conversar com um fascista" by Marcia Tiburi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Tiburi, Marcia. Como conversar com um fascista. English. How to talk to a fascist.

ISBN:

9781350165366

1350165360

9781350165373

1350165379

OCLC:

1153516696

Publisher Number:

99989246451