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Micro-Fascism in the Age of Trump
From: Spectres of Fascism
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This chapter explores fascism in the age of Trump through the lens of Felix Guattari’s theory of fascism as a molecular phenomenon. The chapter explores how the energy of mass desire is channelled into self-destruction.
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Gary Genosko
Gary Genosko is Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University, Canada, and held a Canada Research Chair in Technoculture Studies from 2002 to 2012. His first book, Baudrillard and Signs (Routledge, 1994), established his position as a critical semiotic theorist, and his 2016 book, Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect (Bloomsbury), asks the question of whether semiotics can make an affective turn. His book McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion (Routledge, 1999) situated the two thinkers in the then burgeoning cyberculture. Recently, two volumes – When Technocultures Collide (Wilfred Laurier, 2013) and Remodelling Communication (University of Toronto Press, 2012) – have been forged in the crucible of communication and cultural studies. Dr. Genosko collaborated with Jay Hetrick on Machinic Eros: Félix Guattari’s Writings on Japan (Univocal, 2015) and with Nick Thoburn and Franco Bifo Berardi on After the Future (AK Press, 2011). Together with Scott Thompson, he published a groundbreaking study of governmental administrative surveillance in Ontario, Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO 1927–75 (Fernwood, 2009). Current projects involve the lives of journals, in Back Issues: Periodicals and the Formation of Critical and Cultural Theory in Canada, and a collection of his key writings on Guattari, The Reinvention of the Social: Writings on Félix Guattari, as well as a monograph on the Canadian painter, designer and collaborator with Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker: The Making of Epigrammatic Man.