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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

Perverse Possibilities of Capitalist Collapse: Neoreaction and Dark Enlightenment as an Authoritarian Alternative to the Structural Crisis of Global Capitalism

Theory & Research Since neoreaction and a fortiori, the new rightists are the direct result of the historical decadence of the capitalist mode of production and the techno-economic acceleration of capital

By Pablo Ignacio Jiménez Cea

Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

In Perspective The new volume from IRGAC and kollektiv orangotango brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies

By Börries Nehe and Aurel Eschmann

Reflections on the Crisis of the Political Subject in a Warming Planet

Theory & Research The summer of 2023 was by far the warmest ever recorded. This is not a coincidence, but the confirmation of a global warming trend whose pace seems to have been underestimated even by the sophisticated climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

By Camila Barragán

Authoritarian Capitalism, Violence, and Resistance In Times of Collapse

Theory & Research In April 2023, IRGAC and the Seminar on Subjectivity and Critical Theory (Seminario Subjetividad y Teoría Crítica, SSCT) of the Graduate School of Sociology at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) met for a “South–South” dialogue, exchanging findings and experiences regarding the dynamics of the multiple global crises. This dossier presents some of the insights that have emerged from this encounter

By Inés Durán Matute, Börries Nehe and Rogelio Regalado Mujica