Fascism and urban violence

Fascism and urban violence

In this talk I critically analyse two racist and anti-Semitic imaginaries of the organic city: Fritsch's The City of the Future (1896) and Feder's The New City (1939) and pose the question, how we can write about fascist imaginaires. Rather than developing a linear argument that tries to persuade fascists, I make a case for writing as a collective political practice that refutes totalising accounts, thinking about writing as a movement that is organised around a shared commitment to an anti-oppressive, non-hierarchical world; a movement that is out of someone’s control and that spirals towards collective liberation.

Date

30. August - 2 September 2022

Language

English

Author

Günter Gassner

Keywords

Racism

Fascism

Spatial imaginaries

Spatial practices

Aesthetics

© 2026 Günter Gassner
© 2026 Günter Gassner