IRGAC
@irgac-rls.bsky.social
The International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies is an initiative of @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social and @unipotsdam.bsky.social that brings together activist researchers from across the world | irgac.org | irgac.substack.com
"The genocide of the Palestinian people cannot be understood without recognising how Judaism is weaponised by the State of Israel, which has turned it into a means for domination. But Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination." Ariel Feldman in irgac.org/articles/war...
War on Identity: Notes on Zionism, Judaism and Genocide
Israel has weaponised Judaism and exploits it as a means for domination while systematically dehumanising Palestinians. However, Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination.
irgac.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"The genocide of the Palestinian people cannot be understood without recognising how Judaism is weaponised by the State of Israel, which has turned it into a means for domination. But Jewish identity has always been the antithesis of power and domination." Ariel Feldman in irgac.org/articles/war...
"In #Gaza all of us are being told: Look, this can be done, because the law no longer exists. today, the law is the power of death, and whoever has that power is the law. That is why I say that we are all Palestine." Our #interview with Rita Segato: irgac.org/articles/rit... @boerriesn.bsky.social
Rita Segato: "Gaza is a watershed moment, and the left is falling behind"
Interview with Argentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato on violence, coloniality, race, the fascist moment, and the feminist movement.
irgac.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"In #Gaza all of us are being told: Look, this can be done, because the law no longer exists. today, the law is the power of death, and whoever has that power is the law. That is why I say that we are all Palestine." Our #interview with Rita Segato: irgac.org/articles/rit... @boerriesn.bsky.social
From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...
August 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From the 1980s Sex Wars to today's Gender Wars: #MoralPanics bind communities to conservative elites, promising safety at the cost of autonomy. What happens when the most vulnerable are forced to trade freedom for imposed protection? irgac.org/articles/gen...
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Wichtiger Text von Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World; The Choice of Civil War, mit Christian Laval) über den Zusammenhang von neoliberaler Entrechtung von Arbeiter*innen und faschistischer Gewaltausübung. (Engl.)
"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle.
irgac.org/articles/pie...
irgac.org/articles/pie...
IRGAC
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July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Wichtiger Text von Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World; The Choice of Civil War, mit Christian Laval) über den Zusammenhang von neoliberaler Entrechtung von Arbeiter*innen und faschistischer Gewaltausübung. (Engl.)
"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle.
irgac.org/articles/pie...
irgac.org/articles/pie...
IRGAC
irgac.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"Today's right-wing violence is not conservative, but a systematic offensive to erase decades of social gains." We spoke with Pierre Dardot (The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society) about governmentality, counter-revolution, the state and antifascist struggle.
irgac.org/articles/pie...
irgac.org/articles/pie...
"Far-right movements have emerged as new interlocutors for adolescents unwilling to accept the passivity offered by late neoliberalism. They promise quick exits from poverty and suffering, specifically to young men." Paülah Shabel on #money, #youth and the far-right:
irgac.org/articles/pos...
irgac.org/articles/pos...
Post-Fascism for Adolescents
What place does youth have on a planet that’s ending every day? What does the future generation dream about when no one expects the future?
irgac.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"Far-right movements have emerged as new interlocutors for adolescents unwilling to accept the passivity offered by late neoliberalism. They promise quick exits from poverty and suffering, specifically to young men." Paülah Shabel on #money, #youth and the far-right:
irgac.org/articles/pos...
irgac.org/articles/pos...
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Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...
March 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...
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Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor?
📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a
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📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a
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March 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hallo Berlin, Sonntag schon was vor?
📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a
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📍 30.03. | 11-14 Uhr | Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung | Straße der Pariser Kommune 8a
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Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Starting #today we are showing our shop window exhibition on anti-authoritarian strategies #BeyondMolotovs at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin! Proud to be part of the #GoodNightFarRight conference happening this weekend! @kol-orangotango.bsky.social
#Fascism successfully channels fears and anxieties towards social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of #care stands as a defiant response to that - as survival, resistance, imagination. @ffarvardin.bsky.social and Gustavo Robles on the subversive and creative potential of care:
irgac.org/articles/fro...
irgac.org/articles/fro...
From (Individual) Fears to (Collective) Cares
The far right successfully channels fears and anxieties towards purist, social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of care stands as a defiant response to that.
irgac.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#Fascism successfully channels fears and anxieties towards social Darwinist fantasies. Politics of #care stands as a defiant response to that - as survival, resistance, imagination. @ffarvardin.bsky.social and Gustavo Robles on the subversive and creative potential of care:
irgac.org/articles/fro...
irgac.org/articles/fro...
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"In rasantem Tempo wird die Welt undemokratischer, ungleicher, rauer und weniger rechtsstaatlich." Im neuen Südlink 211 über "Die autoritäre Gefahr" analysiert @boerriesn.bsky.social die neue "Zeit der Monster" und mögliche Gegenstrategien:
www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...
www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...
Die Hoffnung zurückgewinnen
Weltweit sind autoritäre Politiken auf dem Vormarsch.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"In rasantem Tempo wird die Welt undemokratischer, ungleicher, rauer und weniger rechtsstaatlich." Im neuen Südlink 211 über "Die autoritäre Gefahr" analysiert @boerriesn.bsky.social die neue "Zeit der Monster" und mögliche Gegenstrategien:
www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...
www.inkota.de/news/die-hof...
We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students!
--> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
--> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
February 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We demand that universities resist pressure from biased press and politicians & defend university, freedom of opinion & academic freedom of staff and students!
--> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
--> Statement re: cancellation of Eyal Weizman @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @franceskalbs.bsky.social
www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
After two weeks of struggle and wildcat strikes in #Turkey, the leader of Birtek-Sen (Textile Workers’ Union), Mehmet Türkmen, was detained and arrested. We interviewed him recently: irgac.org/articles/we-...
#FreeMehmetTürkmenNow
#BirtekSen
#FreeMehmetTürkmenNow
#BirtekSen
“We Need a Flood!” – A Young and Independent Union’s Struggle in and through Waves of Local Strikes
In this interview, we talk to Mehmet Türkmen, President of the United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union (Birtek-Sen), which is an independent trade union founded in Gaziantep, one of Turkey’...
irgac.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
After two weeks of struggle and wildcat strikes in #Turkey, the leader of Birtek-Sen (Textile Workers’ Union), Mehmet Türkmen, was detained and arrested. We interviewed him recently: irgac.org/articles/we-...
#FreeMehmetTürkmenNow
#BirtekSen
#FreeMehmetTürkmenNow
#BirtekSen
Read our February newsletter: Learn about music and counterculture in #Palestine & the world | Get your copy of our 100% free and infinitely reproductible #antifascist exhibition | Read on South-South Justice | and more!
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Anti-Authoritarian Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (and other news)
IRGAC's February Newsletter
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February 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Read our February newsletter: Learn about music and counterculture in #Palestine & the world | Get your copy of our 100% free and infinitely reproductible #antifascist exhibition | Read on South-South Justice | and more!
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Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge simultaneously all around the world? We discussed with @gambettiz.bsky.social, @hfanton.bsky.social, Alex Demirovic and @boerriesn.bsky.social during our "Contesting Authoritarianism" Conference. Watch this and other discussions irgac.org/articles/con...
Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South
The complete collection of video recordings of our "Contesting Authoritarianism. Perspectives from the South" conference.
irgac.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge simultaneously all around the world? We discussed with @gambettiz.bsky.social, @hfanton.bsky.social, Alex Demirovic and @boerriesn.bsky.social during our "Contesting Authoritarianism" Conference. Watch this and other discussions irgac.org/articles/con...
" ... to fight an insurrection, you need another insurrection. It is not by placing the left as the party of the order that we will stop this process."
Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever.
irgac.org/articles/bra...
Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever.
irgac.org/articles/bra...
„Brazil is experiencing a fascist uprising“ Interview with Vladimir Safatle
On January 8, more than 4,000 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded, looted, and vandalized public buildings, in what the professor Vladimir Safatle claims to be a "fascist i...
irgac.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
" ... to fight an insurrection, you need another insurrection. It is not by placing the left as the party of the order that we will stop this process."
Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever.
irgac.org/articles/bra...
Read our interview with @vladimirsafatle.bsky.social - we did it a while ago, but it is as fresh and urgent as ever.
irgac.org/articles/bra...
Resentment and rage are often seen as undesirable for politics, producing anger, hatred, and desire for revenge. But rage can also lead to revolutionary practices. Where do anger, rage & resentment come from? What makes them different? How are they channeled politically?
irgac.org/articles/res...
irgac.org/articles/res...
Resentment and Rage as Two Reactions to Violence
Rabies is a virus produced in mammals, transmitted by salivary contact, but in Spanish the word rabia is often used to connote anger, irritation, hatred, ill will, and desire for revenge. This rage of...
irgac.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Resentment and rage are often seen as undesirable for politics, producing anger, hatred, and desire for revenge. But rage can also lead to revolutionary practices. Where do anger, rage & resentment come from? What makes them different? How are they channeled politically?
irgac.org/articles/res...
irgac.org/articles/res...
"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano)
>Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
>Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"Unlike politics, #art doesn’t try to fix or calibrate the machine. It does something more subversive and unsettling: it shows the possibility of another world." (Sup Insurgente Galeano)
>Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
>Read our contribution on the role of art for Zapatista resistance, #BeyondMolotovs: tvl.ink/beyond-molot...
We are presenting our book and exhibition #BeyondMolotovs on strategies against authoritarianism in Lisboa, together with Criar Cidade & Jornal Mapa. Don't miss it. Casado Comun, January 31
Beyond Molotovs em Lisboa
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Casa do Comum
A coop. Criar Cidade e o Jornal Mapa juntam-se para apresentar Beyond Molotovs-A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies, um livro que reúne relatos de movimentos, ativistas, artistas e académicos, centrando-se na dimensão sensorial e emocional.
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Casa do Comum
A coop. Criar Cidade e o Jornal Mapa juntam-se para apresentar Beyond Molotovs-A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies, um livro que reúne relatos de movimentos, ativistas, artistas e académicos, centrando-se na dimensão sensorial e emocional.
January 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
We are presenting our book and exhibition #BeyondMolotovs on strategies against authoritarianism in Lisboa, together with Criar Cidade & Jornal Mapa. Don't miss it. Casado Comun, January 31
@boerriesn.bsky.social talked with our colleagues at @unipotsdam.bsky.social about the authoritarian transformation and counterstrategies, and our current and upcoming work (in German only).
Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@boerriesn.bsky.social talked with our colleagues at @unipotsdam.bsky.social about the authoritarian transformation and counterstrategies, and our current and upcoming work (in German only).
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Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Kippt die Welt nach rechts? Das Wissenschaftskolleg IRGAC („International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies“ - @irgac-rls.bsky.social) erforscht – seit Januar 2025 an der Uni Potsdam – den #Autoritarismus und Strategien dagegen: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst)
🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social
thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com
🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social
thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“I think for Israel the Gaza Strip was always the ‘Id’ or ‘Es’ as Freud calls it. This is the place where everything is allowed.” (Iris Hefets, psychoanalyst)
🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social
thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com
🎧 New podcast episode “The Psychic Life of Authoritarianism’’, with Iris and @leninology.bsky.social
thisauthoritarianlife.buzzsprout.com
We are now on #substack! Visit the IRGAC Newsletter ans subscribe to get all our latest news, articles, podcasts & more: irgac.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to IRGAC's new newsletter format!
... we also have a new home, new articles and a new podcast episode
irgac.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We are now on #substack! Visit the IRGAC Newsletter ans subscribe to get all our latest news, articles, podcasts & more: irgac.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Revolutions surprise and overwhelm. Sociology is quick to domesticate these moments with conceptual rationality. How can we understand Iran's #Woman-Life-Freedom movement without domesticating it? Read our by Ebrahim Towfigh and Seyed Mehdi Yousefi.
irgac.org/articles/why...
irgac.org/articles/why...
Why Do We Need a New Sociology of Revolution? The (Im)possibility of Zan-Zendegi-Azadi
All revolutions in modern times have something in common: they surprise and overwhelm. Yet we cannot endure the moment of revolution, which we perceive as chaos that must be tamed by order of conceptu...
irgac.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Revolutions surprise and overwhelm. Sociology is quick to domesticate these moments with conceptual rationality. How can we understand Iran's #Woman-Life-Freedom movement without domesticating it? Read our by Ebrahim Towfigh and Seyed Mehdi Yousefi.
irgac.org/articles/why...
irgac.org/articles/why...
"Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?" See our new #CfA for 6 #Postdoc Fellowships of 33 months at University of Potsdam and become part of IRGAC! We're looking for research on why and how people support authoritarian politics: irgac.org/calls/call-f...
Call for Applications: Authoritarian Neoliberalism & Reactionary Populism: The Authoritarian Appeal
Call for Applications for 6 postdoctoral fellowships at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam, with a duration of 33 months (until December 31, 2027).
Funding st...
irgac.org
January 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation?" See our new #CfA for 6 #Postdoc Fellowships of 33 months at University of Potsdam and become part of IRGAC! We're looking for research on why and how people support authoritarian politics: irgac.org/calls/call-f...