The Fascism of Ambiguity

With a precise sense of the stakes and undertow of current destructions of meaning, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback taps architectures of sense and exposes the overall will to make and break sense. Her writing explores the manipulation of significations and values associated with fascism and its mutating offshoots. This work uniquely delivers a crucial reboot based, in part, on the thinking of Jean-Luc Nancy. Timely, knock-out, and brilliant. It takes on the conservative pushback that plagues our ways of thinking through identity and race. Her HQ is located in the populist literatures of original peoples, an outpost from which she reevaluates Hannah Arendt’s theorems on crucial totalitarian junctures by means of digital technics, robotics, AI, and other algorithms of technological immediacy. She meets the Nietzschean criterion of explaining and eliminating toxic spillovers of destructive grammars and behaviors of the human. * Avital Ronell, University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA *
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. * Frank Ruda, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK *