Category Archives: Alberto Toscano

Millennium conference – date correction

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Please note the date 20-21 October 2012 is correct – not as previously advertised.

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Materialism and World Politics – Millennium conference

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

Update: this conference is 20-21 October 2012, not as previously advertised:

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Marx Reloaded UK premiere

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Details here; and an interview with the director here.

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Marx Reloaded poster

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

I linked to the trailer before, but this is the poster for the film. Clicking on it will take you to a larger image. As has been pointed out on facebook already, Sloterdijk is making some kind of move on … Continue reading →

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Marx Reloaded trailer

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Featuring Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano… Trotsky as Morpheus is good too.

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Toscano discusses Fanaticism

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

I’ve mentioned Alberto Toscano’s interesting book Fanaticism before. Here he is talking about the book on Radio 4 with Laurie Taylor and John Gray (begins about 14 minutes in) and in a video on The Guardian website. And this is … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

Interesting review of Alberto Toscano’s Fanaticism book on The Guardian website (via Verso blog) Video of Quentin Meillassoux in action here (in French, via Graham Harman) I finished Wu Ming’s 54. Quite good and some nice moments. Think Eco or Pynchon … Continue reading →

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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Posted on July 4, 2010 by

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading →

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Cartographies of the Absolute

Posted on June 22, 2010 by

Infinite Thought reports that Alberto Toscano has a new project underway. There is a blog and a forthcoming book written with Jeff Zinkle on cognitive mapping with Zer0. Looking interesting. Alberto was a PhD student at Warwick when I taught … Continue reading →

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