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SUMMARY:The World Ends\, Masculinity Endures
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I argue that\, contrary to what proponents of te
 rms like “cyber-feudalism” suggest\, when we speak about the dawn of a
  new cyber-feudal era\, we are not really describing the end of a specific
  mode of production. Rather\, we are witnessing the retreat of the state
 ’s most socially integrated facet. Cyber-feudalism\, as I understand it\
 , names the moment when the majority of the population\, no longer relevan
 t to the primary mode of accumulation\, can be disposed of. This\, I conte
 nd\, is what underlies the ongoing assault on political and civil rights: 
 without incentives to sustain their populations as members of a political 
 community\, states will seek to suspend the rights they had previously gra
 nted—and this is the stage we are now in.\n\nTrump’s murderous alacrit
 y\, his use of maximum brute force with a minimum of justification\, viole
 nce that is technically precise yet morally illegible\, open contempt for 
 international law\, and absolute impunity —are the epiphenomena of this 
 transition. The cruelty is not the point\; the cruelty is the affect. The 
 point is to unmake citizens and govern the rightless as wards.\n\nWhen sta
 tes abdicate the work of sustaining populations\, they leave a void—not 
 only in material provision but in meaning. That void\, I argue\, must be f
 illed by an ideology capable of naturalizing the notion that neglect is no
 t a breakdown but a restoration of order.\n\nIf cruelty is the affect\, ar
 tificial intelligence the infrastructure\, and the unmaking of citizens th
 e political project\, then my central claim is this: masculinity—underst
 ood as an ideological formation—is what performs the ideological work an
 d supplies the moral grammar for this transition. Post-apocalyptic and sur
 vivalist fiction—genres that imagine a world where civilization ends\, b
 ut masculinity endures—provides the medium through which this grammar is
  rehearsed\, visualized\, and rendered intuitive.\n\nTaken together\, crue
 lty as affect\, masculinity as grammar\, the unmaking of citizens as proje
 ct\, and artificial intelligence as infrastructure constitute the ideologi
 cal and material apparatus of an emerging new mode of governance—and it 
 is these coordinates that this talk maps out.
LOCATION:Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst\, Wächterstraße 11\, 04107 
 Leipzig\, Leipzig
URL:https://wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de/veranstaltungen/the-world-ends
 -masculinity-endures
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