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Fascism as alternate modernity

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Fascism is the exemplary case of an 'alternate modernity', it attempted to realize a version of modernity without capitalism's constitutive antagonisms and instead became its most extreme manifestation.

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As told 3

“Was fascism not an exemplary case of alternate modernity?”
5:47 Why I oppose Historicism and Remain a Philosopher2021-05-07 · 40:57
“fascism was precisely alternate modernity. the idea basic idea of fascism is we can have. all good that capitalism brings... without paying the price for it”
2:44:40 Badiou & Žižek - Is Lacan An Anti-Philosopher? (Complete)2010-05-28 · 2:49:38
“Fascism was precisely the first big attempt to build an alternate modernity... to have the process of modernity, industrial development and so on, but without paying the price of alienation, social disintegration.”
4:34 Slavoj Zizek: Kant, Modernity and Anti-Semitism | Video Lecture Series (2/3)pub. 2020-02-02 · 20:50

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
alternate modernity ×3 capitalism without capitalism ×1 antagonism inherent to modernity ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Frankfurt School1Suzanne Moore1Ted Kennedy1Jean-Luc Marion1Václav Klaus1Catherine Millot1Gabriel Tupinambá1François Balmès1
alongside works
The Seminar on the Object of Psychoanalysis1Logic of Fantasy (Logique du fantasme)1From Anxiety to Encore1The Dream of Irma's Injection1Tarkovsky's films (oeuvre)1Stephen King horror novels1The Raw Youth1The Possessed / Demons1

Every retelling 3

5:47 Why I oppose Historicism and Remain a Philosopher2021-05-07 · 40:57
Fascism is the exemplary case of an 'alternate modernity', it attempted to realize a version of modernity without capitalism's constitutive antagonisms and instead became its most extreme manifestation., illustrating alternate modernities,ideology,capitalism's constitutive antagonism
2:44:40 Badiou & Žižek - Is Lacan An Anti-Philosopher? (Complete)2010-05-28 · 2:49:38
Žižek argues fascism was the 20th century's 'alternate modernity': an attempt to have capitalism's industrial benefits without social antagonisms, achieved through anti-semitism (scapegoating) rather than systemic change., illustrating alternate modernity,capitalism without the price
4:34 Slavoj Zizek: Kant, Modernity and Anti-Semitism | Video Lecture Series (2/3)pub. 2020-02-02 · 20:50
He turns the politically-correct idea of 'alternative modernities' against itself by naming fascism as the first big project of an alternate modernity, industrial modernisation without alienation or social disintegration., illustrating alternative modernity,antagonism inherent to modernity,ideology