(Post)neoliberal Fascistization: Materiality, Affects, and Dispositifs

Workshop:

Fascisms don't just circulate as ideas. They materialize. They occupy cities, mark bodies, harden borders, and saturate the images we live among. Confronting them demands more than critique — it demands that we map their material forms and build responses on the same terrain. 

Over two days at Goldsmiths, IRGAC brings together political collectives, artists, and researchers to think — and act — across the lines that usually keep these worlds apart.

The workshop opens space for a conversation rarely held in one room: between those theorizing technofascism and postneoliberal affects, those intervening artistically in its imaginaries, and those organizing internationalist responses from the ground up.

Program:

Wednesday 17 June

Opening: (Post)neoliberal Fascistization — Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths), Gustavo Robles (IRGAC / University of Passau) and Thibaut Vaillancourt (Goldsmiths/SNSF)

Thursday 18 June

Technofascisms — Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths), Juni Schindler (Imperial College & University of Zurich), Faith Kirigha (IRGAC, University of Potsdam)

Artistic Interventions on Technofascism — Laura Cugusi (Italy), Nada Zanhouri (Lebanon), Linda Hilfling (Goldsmiths)

Psychopolitics of Deception (Book Launch) — Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths)

Friday 19 June

· Productions of Subjectivity — Yasmeen Daher (IRGAC, University of Potsdam), Paülah Shabel (IRGAC, University of Potsdam), Jo Littler (Goldsmiths)

· Countercartographies — Tuline Gülgönen (kollektiv orangotango, Berlin), Leonardo Aranda (Medialab, Mexico City)

· Internationalism from Below — On The Right Track (Hannah Grzeskiewicz & Ana Werkstetter), The Peoples Want; Moderator: Firoozeh Farvardin (University of Vienna / IRGAC)

A space to link critique with counter-strategy. Join us.

Information:

Goldsmiths, University of London

18–19 June

Organised by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (IRGAC - University of Potsdam, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation). Convened by Gustavo Robles (IRGAC / University of Passau) and Thibaut Vaillancourt (Goldsmiths/SNSF). Hosted by the Digital Culture Unit and the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

To register or request more information, write to critique.culture@proton.me