the mythology of fringe white supremacy in the united states in the last several decades; Afropessimist and fellow-traveler’s perspectives of survival under white supremacy; necropolitics, Marx, and the foundation of fascism in the colonization of Africa; oppositional mythology, possibilities for struggle and solidarity.

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Nietzsche’s complex relationship to anti-Semitism, and whether or not he can be read for liberation; Stirner and Novatore; the Russian Narodniks and Perón’s Argentina; modern U.S. populism and the problems of democracy.

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Barthes’ critique of Leftist mythologies; Marx’s critique of mythology and a critique of Marx’s mythology; elements of fascist mythology; various kinds of speculative fiction, and its advantages and disadvantages around imagining towards liberation.

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strategies for self-invention and becoming in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre
Lorde and Saidiya Hartman; the struggle for access to Native spirituality practices in Canadian prisons and the pitfalls of ally politics; response to calls for oppressed nationalisms and essentialism practiced by people of color; Foucault meets Lorde, identity becomes both survival and a game.

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Essentialism in white feminist spirituality and white environmentalist circles; Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Sara Ahmed, and Jasbir Puar’s proposals for getting out of these traps.

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Spain before the war; the rise of the fascist; anarchist resistance; the betrayal of the revolution and its consequences.

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D’Annunzio’s adventures in Fiume, Mussolini’s turn, how other anarchists turned fascist, and the uncertain legacy of Futurism.

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Essentialism in Volkische ideology in pre-Nazi Germany; Nazi intellectuals and their complicities; Hitler, Eichmann, and Nazi workplace culture.

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An explanation of the project; reflections on history, myth, and essentialism.

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