El Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales tiene el agrado de invitar al seminario Infrastructures of Care: Fascistic Rhetorics, Unwanted Populations, and Political Resistance a cargo de Daniel Loick (University of Amsterdam).

Abstract: It is a common pattern of fascist rhetorics to stigmatize unwanted populations as superfluous, waste or disposable. These rhetorics are not simple political mobilization strategies, but also correspond to objective developments: more and more people are actually being turned into “human waste”, into the surplus of global capitalism. Anti-fascist politics must therefore not be limited to dismantling structures of oppression, but also actively seek to establish livable worlds and conditions of care. However, there is an ongoing debate on whether these institutions should be understood either as state-guaranteed social-democratic rights, or as anti-state, community-based practices. In this talk, I propose the concept of infrastructures of care as a third alternative: stable and reliable institutions of civil society that might eventually consolidate into a world in which no one is disposable.