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Zusatztext Examining the ties between the present-day global techno-finance capitalism that overcomes all borders and undermines all distinctions and the types of indifference, indistinction, and ambiguity it produces as well as relies on, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback confronts head-on one of the most perplexing specters that haunts the contemporary world: the specter of (a new) fascism. Without ambiguity, The Fascism of Ambiguity embodies a return of conceptual precision much needed today. Informationen zum Autor Marcia Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden. The translator of Heidegger's Being and Time into Portuguese, she specializes in German idealism, hermeneutical phenomenology, and contemporary philosophy. Her books include Praise of Nothingness: Essays on Philosophical Hermeneutics (Glanta, 2006) and The Beginning of God: An Inquiry into Schelling's Late Philosophy (Vozes, 1998). Vorwort A timely examination of the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today with new mediatic and information technologies. Zusammenfassung This book contributes to the work of elucidating the new forms of fascism and authoritarianism that arise today in intimate relation with new mediatic and information technologies. It presents elements of the connection between capitalism and fascism and makes clear how fascism today uses the ambiguity of senses and meanings as its most efficient way of infiltrating our reality and thereby becoming unequivocal. The fascism of ambiguity is a fascism that grows the more the ambiguities and paradoxical dimensions of the contemporary situation become explicit. It departs from some lessons of history regarding both historical fascism and some of the main critical lines and thoughts produced in the beginning of the 20th Century. It shows what is new in today’s form of fascism, discussing its connection to techno-mediatic capitalism, to the dynamics of emptying meanings and senses through a technique of rendering them ambiguous and exacerbated. It outlines some guiding thoughts regarding the question of ambiguity and metapolitics today and concludes by proposing two exercises of precision, through the lenses of poetry and music, as a way to resist and counter-act the fascist metapolitics of the ambiguity of meanings and senses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword , by Jean-Luc Nancy Preface 1. Lessons From History: Mussolini’s Fascism2. Lessons From Critique: Some Elements for a Critique of Historical Fascism3. Neofascism: Pasolini’s Cine-Poetic Vision4. The Fascism Of Ambiguity5. The Ambiguity Of Sense6. Metapolitics7. Precision Exercise I: The Precision Of Poetry: Orides Fontela8. Precision Exercise II: Towards Listening to the Ligatures of the Present9. By Way of Conclusion Index ...
