Alberto Toscano
Areas of interest
Critical theory, Marxism, contemporary European philosophy, Italian thought and literature, tragedy, racial capitalism, and fascism.
Education
- PhD, Philosophy, University of Warwick
- MA, Continental Philosophy, University College Dublin
- BA, Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research
Biography
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University, where he is also a visiting scholar at the Digital Democracies Institute. He is the author of "The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze" (Palgrave, 2006), "Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea" (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), "Cartographies of the Absolute" (with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015), "Una visión compleja. Hacía una estética de la economía" (Meier Ramirez, 2021), "La abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital" (Palinodia, 2021), and the co-editor of "The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics" (with Lorenzo Chiesa, re.press, 2009), the 3-volume "Handbook of Marxism" (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg, SAGE, 2021), and Ruth Wilson Gilmore's "Abolition Geography: Essays in Liberation" (with Brenna Bhandar, Verso, 2022). He is currently completing two projects: an exploration of theories of authoritarianism in the light of the present, "Late Fascism" (Verso, 2022) and a critical annotated edition in Italian of Cesare Pavese's mythological fiction "Dialogues with Leucò" (Garzanti, 2021). In connection to his studies on fascism, he has has recently translated and provided an afterword for a graphic novel on "Primo Levi" (Between the Lines, 2021) and an extensive new introduction for the reprint of Leo Löwenthal and Norbert Guterman's "Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator" (Verso, 2021). Since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal "Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory" and is series editor of "The Italian List" for Seagull Books. He is also the translator of numerous books and essays by Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi and others.