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Investments for Survival: Goldbugs, Moneydeath, and the Rise of Apocalypse Economics.
By Events sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities, the Department of History, the Wilson Institute, the Department of Philosophy, and the Globalization Program
Free Lecture for Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Overview
If you don’t want to talk about capitalism, then you had better keep quiet about fascism.” So reads the famous 1939 quote from Max Horkheimer. Yet it is striking how much scholarship on the contemporary Far Right ignores this dictum. In my talk, I’ll describe the ways that goldbug ideology, scientific racism, and predictions of imminent apocalypse have been intertwined in prominent strains of Far Right ideology in Western Europe and North America from the 1970s to the present. To understand the imaginary of the Far Right, it helps to understand it as a system of investments for survival.
Speakers
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Dr. Quinn Slobodian
Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College