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The Fascist Longings in Our Midst
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Althusser, Louis G. M. Barthes, Roland |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | A. A S C I S M " is A B A N A L T E R M . It is used most often not simply to refer to the historical events that took place in Hider 's Germany and Mussolini 's Italy, but also to condemn attitudes or behaviour that we consider to be excessively autocratic or domineering. 1 Speaking i n the mid-1970s, M iche l Foucault referred to the popularized use of the term "fascism" as "a general complicity i n the refusal to decipher what fascism really was." The non-analysis o f fascism, Foucault goes on, is "one of the important political facts of the past thirty years. It enables fascism to be used as a floating signifier, whose function is essentially that of denunciat i on " ("Power and Strategies" 139). In this essay, I attempt to study this—what amounts to a col lect ive—"denunciat ion" of fascism by examining not only what is being denounced but also the major conceptual paths through which denunciat ion is produced. My argument is hence not exacdy one that avoids the "floatingness" of "fascism" by grounding it i n a particular time or space. Instead, I take fascism as a commonplace, in the many ways it is used to indicate what is deemed questionable and unacceptable. In the process, I highlight what I think is fascism's most significant but often neglected aspect—what I wi l l refer to as its technologized idealism. In my argument, fascism is not |
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| Language | English |
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| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
