Brian Massumi

Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly

Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly

It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached. Trump recently pronounced that he doesn’t need to follow international law because all that counts is his “own...

Some Points about Contemporary Fascism

Some Points about Contemporary Fascism

We are delighted to repost Brian Massumi's latest essay, first published on his new Substack. The maturation of the modern nation-state coincided with a progressive becoming-immanent of power to the social field. Concepts such as disciplinary power, governmentality,...