French & Italian
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2019
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
No Monument Location
The global rise of libertarian fascism and the transnational practices of resistance
Why do “good people”—perfectly sane and decent folks who find no pleasure in afflicting pain or living in hate or ignorance—collaborate with discrimination, white supremacy, voter suppression, anti-Semitism, and violence? Which cultural phantasies and media discourses are behind their choices? Lorenzo Fabbri proposes to answer these questions in a book analyzing the forms of media and the affective structures fueling current neo-fascist tendencies in Italy and United States.