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Alberto Toscano

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Alberto Toscano is the author of Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri (2025), Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords of an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and Cartographies of the Absolute (with J. Kinkle, 2015). He is the co-editor (with B. Noys) of Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (3 vols, 2023-) and (with S. Bromberg, S. Farris and B. Skeggs) of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022). He edits the series Seagull Essays and The Italian List for Seagull Books and is a columnist for In These Times. He has translated books by Franco Fortini, Furio Jesi, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Gianni Carchia, and Antonio Negri.