The lecture outlines an anti-fascist philosophy of affirmation, inspired critical neo-Spinozist philosophies and contemporary feminist and anti-racist thought. It discusses the anti-fascist life as the permanent critique of power, racist and antisemitic exclusions, sexism, homo and transphobia and authoritarianism. It defines fascism also as the cult of negativity and the instrumental use of despair for the sake of destroying the social construction of shared horizons of hope. An ethics of affirmation is therefore the key to the anti-fascist life.
Rosi Braidotti is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Main publications: Nomadic Subjects (2011a), and Nomadic Theory.(2011b), Columbia University Press. The Posthuman, 2013, Posthuman Knowledge, 2019; Posthuman Feminism, 2022 Polity Press. The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022), Bloomsbury Academic.