LIAS Focus Week: Talk: The Extreme Right and Present-Day Capitalism: The Examples of Argentina and Spain
Totaliszing competition, struggle for survival and the demise of democracy
15. Jan
This event is open to everyone interested!
Wednesday, January 15th 2024, 2-4pm
Location: Leuphana Campus, Lecture Hall 3
Language: English
Talk by Adrià Alcoverro (Leuphana, LIAS Alumnus)
The growth of the extreme right occurs in a context defined on the one hand, by a growing competition between individuals for survival with a generalised indifference to the fellow citizen all dressed with the technocentric attires of the digital economy. On the other hand, this context is defined by the emergence of an anger rooted in atomisation and inequalities that activate a fear of loss which is easily translated into essentialism and hate once exploited by the extreme right. Javier Milei’s government in Argentina discursively and materially enhances these apparently contradictory characteristics fusing them to constitute what could be a new model of capitalist society in which human substance and even the idea of progress vanishes within this fog of utter competition and hate trapping the present within an endless totalising struggle for survival.