Fascism seems to have risen up zombie-like from the past, but philosopher and political theorist Gabriel Rockhill argues that it's been with us all along.

Today on the show, Allen traces a counter-history of fascism—including its relationships to liberalism, capitalism, and colonialism and how we understand/misunderstand its role in the U.S.—with Gabriel Rockhill.

Gabriel Rockhill is a professor of philosophy at Villanova University and the founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop (Atelier de Théorie Critique). He is the author or editor of nine books, including Radical History and the Politics of Art (Columbia University Press, 2014), Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy (Duke University Press, 2017). He recently published a series of articles about fascism in Counterpunch and Black Agenda Report.

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A Counter-History of Fascism and Liberalism

PSYCHOTROPIC GOLGOTHA: A  SOCIAL HISTORY OF KETAMINE AND THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS 

What do the KGB, the New Californian Technocracy, and millennial Hong Kong ravers all have in common? They are all inexplicably bound in the sordid history of ketamine. From experiments on inmates and political dissidents to CIA meetings brokered at seaside spiritual retreats to raves in Berlin - hospitals, barracks, prisons, and clubs are all connected and part of the same complex spectrum of experimentation, dispersal, and consumption of dissociation.  When we “partake,” what are we really partaking in?

ONLINE SOURCES

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PSYCHOTROPIC GOLGOTHA - A SOCIAL HISTORY OF KETAMINE AND THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS

Listener Nick joins us to tackle Erica Benner’s 1995 Marxian treatise on nationality and nationalist politics, “Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels”.

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#131 - “Really Existing Nationalisms” (Part 1) w/ Nick

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