The Farce of Fascism: A Tragedy of Othering and Power in Three Acts
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Date
2023-03-24
Authors
Bailey, Natalia
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University of Oregon
Abstract
In his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement of growing movements in contemporary American politics that take hostile positions concerning certain minority groups in the United States, The Farce of Fascism attempts to reach an understanding of how these groups are marked as different and pushed out of what is considered acceptable in the dominant morality as defined by the will to power. What follows is an investigation of what I refer to as othering-narratives; narratives with the purpose of essentializing accidental qualities associated with various identities in their relevant discourses. Furthermore, this project considers the intent of such narratives and how they are propagated throughout society, making comparisons with the methods of othering present in colonial Africa and Nazi Germany when relevant.
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Biopolitics, Fascism, Identity, Necropolitics, Othering, Othering-Narratives