Translated by Liz Mason-Deese

Reflections on Authoritarian Times

What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to see it as an organic part of, a counterrevolution: that is, the new authoritarianism operates against the backdrop of the transfeminist, Indigenous, migrant, and antiracist struggles that have modified our understanding and collective experience of the connection between patriarchal, racist, and capitalist forms of violence and have simultaneously produced a set of demands and altered desires and sensibilities.