Lucas Ballestín, Author at Public Seminar

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What is at Stake in Argentina’s Elections

A Series

September 16, 2019 • by Guillermina Altomonte and Lucas Ballestín

Beyond the economic debates animating the campaign (between Macri’s more restricted business-friendly form of the welfare state, and Fernandez’ mirror opposite: a sovereigntist, Keynesian Industrial Policy focused narrative), the campaign invokes debates about social justice and national sovereignty. For historical reasons, the Fernandez ticket links the presence and activity of ...

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New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 3

Psychoanalytic resources for (anti-) fascist mobilization

April 19, 2019 • by Lucas Ballestín

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koK79g4O-qQ&feature=youtu.be Organized by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London) and Chiara Bottici (New School) What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to ...

New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 3

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New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 2

Finance and Populism

April 18, 2019 • by Lucas Ballestín

Organized by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London) and Chiara Bottici (New School) What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to debate ...

New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 2

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New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 1

Past, Present and Future of Financialization

April 17, 2019 • by Lucas Ballestín

Organized by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London) and Chiara Bottici (New School) What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to debate these ...

New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 1

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Gender as Colonial Object

The spread of Western gender categories through European colonization

July 26, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

To appreciate the extent to which gender can be construed as a colonial object, it’s necessary to first understand just what a colonial object is. I understand colonial objects neither as ‘artifacts produced by indigenous peoples,’ nor as ‘artifacts that get taken up as emblematic of a particular (foreign, fetishized) way ...

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Argentina’s National Sport

On the uses and abuses of melancholic nostalgia

July 17, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

On June 30, fans of football all across ahe globe were struck (but not really surprised) by the defeat of an Argentine national team at the hands of an explosive France at the World Cup in Kazan, Russia. All across the world, Argentines and their sympathizers watched in sadness as ...

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Navigating Finance and the Imagination

A walking tour event

April 12, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

On April 14, a temporary assembly of activists, artists and interdisciplinary academics will drift together through the City of London to explore the intersections of finance and the imagination in the historic district of English (and global) wealth and power. With over 15 presentations on topics ranging from algorithms to architecture, ...

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Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump

A New School roundtable

October 7, 2017 • by Lucas Ballestín

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...

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Nihilists with Good Imaginations

March 3, 2016 • by Lucas Ballestín

In what may be her most ambitious piece yet, Chiara Bottici recently published a call for a continuation of debates around intersectional oppression along the lines traced out by anarchist thought. Somewhat surprisingly, though, Bottici avoided making explicit reference to some of her previous work, which, though it may be ...