Theory & Research

The Lost Innocence of Playing: Why games are becoming the new cultural battlefield between the far right and its opponents

Theory & Research Video games are often dismissed as entertainment, yet they have become a crucial arena where politics, technology, and the far right intersect. From GamerGate and Steve Bannon’s mobilisation of gaming communities to the gamification of online politics, game cultures have profoundly shaped today’s social media dynamics and reactionary movements. Enrico De Angelis explores in this article why games deserve far more attention and political and cultural significance, not only as the world’s largest entertainment industry.

By Enrico De Angelis

Workshop Report: From "(Post)neoliberal Fascization" to "From the Picket Line" — Conversations on the (Post)neoliberal University

Theory & Research Fascisms have a material existence: they reshape spaces and cities, inscribe themselves on bodies and relationships, and circulate through images and imaginaries. What does this mean for universities?

By IRGAC and Gustavo Robles

Road to Fascization: Crisis of Social Cohesion, Alienation, and the Search for Alternatives

Theory & Research The current crisis is creating political conditions in which states are losing their ability to manage internal societal contradictions. The consequences of the crisis of neoliberalism, which has severed social bonds, have evolved into a broader crisis that is causing modern societies to lose their social cohesion, and their ability to politically organise to find adequate responses to the crisis itself.

By Ali Yalçın Göymen

Authoritarianism and "Progress": Looking at Bolivia from the Crucible of Santa Cruz. An open dialogue.

Theory & Research How is “progress” understood in this territory? For whom is it intended? How has Bolivian society, particularly in Santa Cruz, been transformed in recent decades? Why speak of authoritarianism? Seeking collective answers to these questions—and opening the door to new ones—we met in July at a roundtable during the Congress of the Association of Bolivian Studies (AEB). This text summarises the reflections that emerged and presents a set of ongoing research projects.

By Claudia Cuellar

From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares

Theory & Research Neoliberalism has dismantled the social structures that offered security and orientation to life. The far right successfully channels the resulting fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that. In an era defined by uncertainty and precarity, care emerges as survival, resistance, and imagination. Care is a counter-normative project: sustaining and (re)generating social life while embracing contradiction and resisting the demands for purity.

By Firoozeh Farvardin and Gustavo Robles