Understanding microfascism: reading Deleuze and Guattari alongside management guru texts
Sideeq Mohammed (2019) Culture and Organization
"the desire for fascism, power, conformity, and rule-following of which Deleuze and Guattari speak offers a productive way of understanding the success of the management guru and the broader allure of the management advice industry."
"‘Why did the masses desire fascism?’ ... Posed in the context of their attempts to develop a more robust conceptualization of ‘desire’ as a psychosocial force, they suggest that ‘only microfascism provides an answer to the global question: why does desire desire its own repression, how can it desire its own repression?’ (Deleuze and Guattari 2005, 215)"
I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.
Games i wanna see on the Virtual Console for Snes:
1.- Terranigma
2.- Chrono Trigger
3.- Secret of Evermore.
4.- Ilusion of Gaia.
5.- Lufia II Rise of Sinistrals.
"Rather than be constantly told what we want and pressurised to go at after it, I think we would benefit greatly from spells of restless boredom, in which desire can crystallise."
I have this quote in an old notebook of recipes, attributed to one "Sean O'Hagan, author of Going Sane". I have vague memories of copying it out of a magazine about 20 years ago, maybe an issue of The Listener?