The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism: Dialogue as Resistance

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
	The Fascist Rise in Brazil
	Grotesque Performance, Machismo and Cynicism
	Psycho-Power
	Brazil, Neoliberalism and Pandemic
1 How to Talk to Fascists—A Title as a Question
	Performativity and the Fascist Language Game
	The Act and the Fascist Language Game: Turbofascism
	Fascism as a Political Technology—Th e Unbelievable Brazilian Example Among Many Others
	Tropical Fascism—Bolsonaro, Trump, Brazil and the United States
	Resentment and Mimicking
	The “Wall” as a Xenophobic Ritual in the Age of the Spectacle
	Ridiculous as the Core of Fascist Propaganda
2 Potential Fascism
	Authoritarian Thinking Regime
	Hate for Everyone
	Machine to Produce Fascists—The Originand Transmission of Hatred
	Language Consumerism
	Paranoia and Ecstasy
	Cognitive Deficiency
	On Emptiness: Thinking, Feeling, Acting and the Lack Thereof
	Cultural Industry of Anti-Politics—The Manipulative Character
	Cultural Semi-Forming
	Capitalist Reductionism
	Fascist Rhetoric: Magic Words, Clichés and Distortion
	Ready Thought Victims
3 Lynching—Complicity and Murder
	The Banality of Death
	The Culture of Harassment
	The Logic of Rape
	Myth and Resentment—Brazil Repressed
	The Eurocentric Paradigm
	Hermeneutic Violence—The Question of the Other
	Paranoia and Self-Referentiality
4 The Effort of Dialogue
	Ethics and Subjectivity—A Dialogical Question
	A Theoretical–Practical Experiment
	Experimentum Crucis
	The Digital Misadventure
	Mechanical Speaking
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX