Postfascism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt

doi:10.1080/09528822.2018.1549797

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“…the case of WeChat [Tencent], see Plantin & De Seta, 2019). It can also be understood as a response to the ‘ethno-nationalist’ cultural logic of late capitalism in the world of Trump and Brexit (Rasmussen, 2018). Michael Mann argues that the modern state ‘penetrates everyday life more than any historical state, and that the state’s infrastructural power has increased enormously’ (Mann, 1984, p. 189).…”

Section: Of Infrastructural Capitalism: Physical Digital Humanmentioning

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Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms

Tse,

Pun

2024

Global Media and China

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Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emerging global-capitalist project entangled with both China’s state-socialist ideology and the latest nationalistic revitalisation agenda, serving both political and commercial goals, yet also rendering discontent and resistance in daily business and employment practices. Through participant observation across 13 Alibaba departments or subsidiaries, semi-structured interviews with workers in Alibaba and other Chinese platform companies, and the analysis of corporate documentation and media reports, our ethnographic study highlights the ‘physical and digital (phygital)’ nature of infrastructure, and theorises how discursive, symbolic, and sensorial techniques are adopted to direct and sustain infrastructural capitalism in daily organisational setting through three unique mechanisms: public-private partnerships, corporate prosumption networks (CPN) and imagineered global competition. This article’s key contributions are threefold: to dissect the intertwined discursive, symbolic and affective mechanisms through which the ‘invisible’ infrastructures of capitalism are made ‘visible’ and ‘sensible’; unpack the variegated impacts and inherent dilemmas of infrastructural capitalism; and reimagine the possibility of individual resistance and systemic transgression.

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Section: Of Infrastructural Capitalism: Physical Digital Humanmentioning

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Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms

Tse,

Pun

2024

Global Media and China

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“…This type of analysis suggests that postfascism is taken to describe the rise of a particular form of popular sentiment: one that is nationalist, nostalgic, xenophobic and racist. Rasmussen (2018), for example, locates the problem of the rise of right-wing, populist movements in ‘postfascism’.…”

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Postfascism in Spain: The Struggle for Catalonia

Bernat

Whyte

2019

Critical Sociology

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The thousands of Spanish National Police and Guardia Civil sent to Barcelona in order to prevent the referendum legislated by the Catalan Parliament on 6 and 7 September 2017 raised major questions about the fragility of Spanish democracy. The subsequent display of police violence on 1 October and the imprisonment and criminalisation of political opponents for the archaic offences of ‘rebellion’ and ‘sedition’ looked even less ‘democratic’. Indeed, those events in Catalonia constitute a remarkable moment in recent European history. This article uses the literature on ‘postfascism’ (developed in this journal and elsewhere) to analyse this remarkable moment and develop its social connections to the parallel re-emergence of fascist violence on the streets and the appearance of fascist symbolism in mainstream politics in Spain. The literature on postfascism identifies contemporary fascism as a specifically cultural phenomenon, but generally fails to identify how the conditions that sustain the far right originate inside the state. In order to capture this historical turn more concretely as a process in which state institutions and processes of statecraft are intimately involved, we argue that the Spanish state is postfascist. The article offers a brief critique of the way the concept of postfascism has been deployed, and, through an empirical reading of the historical development of Spanish state institutions, it proposes a modified frame that can be used to understand the situation in Catalonia.

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The phantom that haunts us (again): post-fascism, affect, and the paradoxes of cultivating an anti-fascist sensibility in education

Zembylas

2021

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Postfascism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms

Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms

Postfascism in Spain: The Struggle for Catalonia

The phantom that haunts us (again): post-fascism, affect, and the paradoxes of cultivating an anti-fascist sensibility in education

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