Anthony Faramelli
I am a psychosocial researcher and practitioner whose work is grounded in issues of coloniality and the theories and practices of institutional analysis, especially the contributions made by Fanon, Guattari and Tosquelles. My current research projects examine digital cultures and the Alt-Right, psychotherapy's aesthetics practices, and the resistant networks formed by Latin American diasporic communities.
My first monograph, Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics, was published in 2018 with Bloomsbury Philosophy. My writing also appears in the collections Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (2018, Bloomsbury Philosophy); Serial Killing: A Philosophic Anthology (2015, Schism Press); and multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Chimères, The London Journal in Critical Thought, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
I am the editor with David Hancock and Rob White of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault and I am editing a forthcoming special issue of Deleuze and Guattari Studies on Institutional Psychotherapy and Analysis. In addition to all of this this, I have published numerous short critical articles on politics and art. Some of my articles have also been translated into French and Italian.
I am currently completing a monograph titled The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the Age of Machines: Big Data, Surveillance and Control. Returning to Reich’s seminal The Mass Psychology of Fascism, this book is a sustained examination of big data analysis and online psychometric micro-targeting. It is framed through an analysis of how issues of race and migration were weaponised in the 2016 US presidential election. However, the book goes much further and examines the spread of the ‘manosphere’, white nationalism and neo-fascism online, constructing links between the historical development of neoliberalism, social media and the current political shift towards authoritarianism. The research generated by this book hopes to inform social debate and public policy as they relate to digital media and social networks.
I lecture in visual and cultural theory, political philosophy, media theory, culture studies, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. I also work as a Recovery Co-ordinator at an accommodation service supporting people with enduring mental ill-health run by SHP.
My first monograph, Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics, was published in 2018 with Bloomsbury Philosophy. My writing also appears in the collections Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (2018, Bloomsbury Philosophy); Serial Killing: A Philosophic Anthology (2015, Schism Press); and multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Chimères, The London Journal in Critical Thought, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
I am the editor with David Hancock and Rob White of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault and I am editing a forthcoming special issue of Deleuze and Guattari Studies on Institutional Psychotherapy and Analysis. In addition to all of this this, I have published numerous short critical articles on politics and art. Some of my articles have also been translated into French and Italian.
I am currently completing a monograph titled The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the Age of Machines: Big Data, Surveillance and Control. Returning to Reich’s seminal The Mass Psychology of Fascism, this book is a sustained examination of big data analysis and online psychometric micro-targeting. It is framed through an analysis of how issues of race and migration were weaponised in the 2016 US presidential election. However, the book goes much further and examines the spread of the ‘manosphere’, white nationalism and neo-fascism online, constructing links between the historical development of neoliberalism, social media and the current political shift towards authoritarianism. The research generated by this book hopes to inform social debate and public policy as they relate to digital media and social networks.
I lecture in visual and cultural theory, political philosophy, media theory, culture studies, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. I also work as a Recovery Co-ordinator at an accommodation service supporting people with enduring mental ill-health run by SHP.
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Resumo Este artigo examinará como o colonialismo e o racismo estratificam o espaço, com foco especial na produção estética e na forma como a liberdade de um indivíduo de-pende do "ambiente" do espaço que ele ocupa. A análise será fundamentada na psi-quiatria colonial argelina e na psicoterapia anti/de-colonial. Através de uma análise do trabalho de Frantz Fanon da Psicoterapia Institucional no Hospital Blida-Joinville, este artigo argumentará que a política decolonial de Fanon e seu compromisso com a desalienação dependeram da (re)construção do espaço dentro do hospital. Isso também se soma ao que mais tarde Félix Guattari chamaria de "coeficiente de trans-versalidade". Por implicação, o argumento deste artigo pretende utilizar a abordagem espacial de Fanon para psicoterapia, a fim de obter uma leitura da Psicoterapia Institu-cional em massa como tendo, em seu cerne, um foco na produção espacial e estética. Palavras-chave Psicoterapia institucional. Fanon. Estética. Crise. Colonialismo
This paper will propose a Fanonian response to Foucault and outline the method in which Fanon sought to open up the enclosed spaces in his clinical and political practices. It will proceed by first considering Fanon’s institutional analysis of the spatial politics in colonial Algeria and his transformation of Blida Hospital into a political therapeutic community. It will then go on to examine Blida’s role in the Algerian resistance as Fanon broadening his political commitment to reverse the traditional method of psychotherapy that seeks to adjust the individual in relation to society, by addressing social problems of inequality that foster the forms of mental and emotional ill health, which Fanon referred as “pathologies of liberty.” Finally, this paper will present Fanon’s spatial practices as a unified project that sought to transform enclosed spaces of deviation into revolutionary heterotopic spaces of possibility.
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The conference brings together academic researchers and practicing psychoanalysts and schizoanalysts from Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay discussing how psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis have been translated into a framework for psychosocial research and therapeutic practice throughout Latin America.
Featuring presentations from:
• Miguel Denis Norambuena
• Cristóbal Durán
• Anthony Faramelli and Mariana Reyes
• Mercedes Fernandez
• Ana Minozzo Marlon
• Miguel
• Alfredo Perdomo
• Cristina Ribas
• Wanderley Santos
• Elena Vogman
• Julie Van der Wielen
Speakers consider:
• The situated postcolonial politics of these practices
• How to utilise the tools of psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis in research on images of violence
• The practicalities of setting up a schzioanalytic clinic in the state hospital in Montevideo
• Mapping the psychosocial mutual support in refugee communities from Latin America in London
• The histories of movement and exchange between La Borde and Latin America
• An exploration of Félix Guattari’s time in Chile
The conference will be followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the publication of two new books: Cristóbal Durán’s Desear la Differencecia: Conversaciones con Félix Guattari Encuentros en Chile, 1991 (Cristobal and I are currently working on an English Translation of this book, more on that soon) and the Publication of newly translated texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury which we have published together in the book Psychotherapy and Materialism (2024: ICI Press)
If you can’t make it in person, there is an option to join online: https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99561889389?pwd=RpJaf3fRbodb8UTzOyhDGjC6YHf5o9.1
Meeting ID: 995 6188 9389
Passcode: 268193
Two of the talks will be in Spanish, however, there will be English Translations available for non-Spanish speakers.
The conference will include a day-long blended (in person and online) programme of panels, talks and a keynote presentation by Anne Querrien followed by a day of experiential interventions.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychosocial-cartographies-tickets-312095565237
Deadline for proposal submission: Friday 15 April
Conference registration fee: 500kč / £18.00 / €21,00 for both days
See the conference website for more information:
https://www.psychosocialcartographies.com
In this semi-autobiographical paper, I will argue that America’s refusal to confront its history of genocide has created a global metonymic figure of the ‘good Indian’ as a way to nullify guilt or culpability with fantasy. This fantasy, however, becomes untenable when confronted with the realities of the reservation system. Beyond the problematic discourses on recognition, I will argue that American and European cultures need to confront the history of genocide and reject the Southwestern aesthetics marketed around the globe.
Resumo Este artigo examinará como o colonialismo e o racismo estratificam o espaço, com foco especial na produção estética e na forma como a liberdade de um indivíduo de-pende do "ambiente" do espaço que ele ocupa. A análise será fundamentada na psi-quiatria colonial argelina e na psicoterapia anti/de-colonial. Através de uma análise do trabalho de Frantz Fanon da Psicoterapia Institucional no Hospital Blida-Joinville, este artigo argumentará que a política decolonial de Fanon e seu compromisso com a desalienação dependeram da (re)construção do espaço dentro do hospital. Isso também se soma ao que mais tarde Félix Guattari chamaria de "coeficiente de trans-versalidade". Por implicação, o argumento deste artigo pretende utilizar a abordagem espacial de Fanon para psicoterapia, a fim de obter uma leitura da Psicoterapia Institu-cional em massa como tendo, em seu cerne, um foco na produção espacial e estética. Palavras-chave Psicoterapia institucional. Fanon. Estética. Crise. Colonialismo
This paper will propose a Fanonian response to Foucault and outline the method in which Fanon sought to open up the enclosed spaces in his clinical and political practices. It will proceed by first considering Fanon’s institutional analysis of the spatial politics in colonial Algeria and his transformation of Blida Hospital into a political therapeutic community. It will then go on to examine Blida’s role in the Algerian resistance as Fanon broadening his political commitment to reverse the traditional method of psychotherapy that seeks to adjust the individual in relation to society, by addressing social problems of inequality that foster the forms of mental and emotional ill health, which Fanon referred as “pathologies of liberty.” Finally, this paper will present Fanon’s spatial practices as a unified project that sought to transform enclosed spaces of deviation into revolutionary heterotopic spaces of possibility.
The conference brings together academic researchers and practicing psychoanalysts and schizoanalysts from Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay discussing how psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis have been translated into a framework for psychosocial research and therapeutic practice throughout Latin America.
Featuring presentations from:
• Miguel Denis Norambuena
• Cristóbal Durán
• Anthony Faramelli and Mariana Reyes
• Mercedes Fernandez
• Ana Minozzo Marlon
• Miguel
• Alfredo Perdomo
• Cristina Ribas
• Wanderley Santos
• Elena Vogman
• Julie Van der Wielen
Speakers consider:
• The situated postcolonial politics of these practices
• How to utilise the tools of psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis in research on images of violence
• The practicalities of setting up a schzioanalytic clinic in the state hospital in Montevideo
• Mapping the psychosocial mutual support in refugee communities from Latin America in London
• The histories of movement and exchange between La Borde and Latin America
• An exploration of Félix Guattari’s time in Chile
The conference will be followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the publication of two new books: Cristóbal Durán’s Desear la Differencecia: Conversaciones con Félix Guattari Encuentros en Chile, 1991 (Cristobal and I are currently working on an English Translation of this book, more on that soon) and the Publication of newly translated texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury which we have published together in the book Psychotherapy and Materialism (2024: ICI Press)
If you can’t make it in person, there is an option to join online: https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99561889389?pwd=RpJaf3fRbodb8UTzOyhDGjC6YHf5o9.1
Meeting ID: 995 6188 9389
Passcode: 268193
Two of the talks will be in Spanish, however, there will be English Translations available for non-Spanish speakers.
The conference will include a day-long blended (in person and online) programme of panels, talks and a keynote presentation by Anne Querrien followed by a day of experiential interventions.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychosocial-cartographies-tickets-312095565237
Deadline for proposal submission: Friday 15 April
Conference registration fee: 500kč / £18.00 / €21,00 for both days
See the conference website for more information:
https://www.psychosocialcartographies.com
In this semi-autobiographical paper, I will argue that America’s refusal to confront its history of genocide has created a global metonymic figure of the ‘good Indian’ as a way to nullify guilt or culpability with fantasy. This fantasy, however, becomes untenable when confronted with the realities of the reservation system. Beyond the problematic discourses on recognition, I will argue that American and European cultures need to confront the history of genocide and reject the Southwestern aesthetics marketed around the globe.
This book draws on philosophic, aesthetic and political discourses to formulate an interdisciplinary approach to the spatial that aims to rupture not only the particularities of spatial discourses, but the very possibility of thought itself through challenging existing borders, boundaries, horizons, surfaces and planes. With essays on politics, philosophy, literature, post-colonial studies and aesthetics from established and emerging academics, this book answers Foucault’s call to think through spaces of crisis and critique in order to give us a better understanding of our present epoch.
This book draws on philosophic, aesthetic and political discourses to formulate an interdisciplinary approach to the spatial that aims to rupture not only the particularities of spatial discourses, but the very possibility of thought itself through challenging existing borders, boundaries, horizons, surfaces and planes. With essays on politics, philosophy, literature, post-colonial studies and aesthetics from established and emerging academics, this book answers Foucault’s call to think through spaces of crisis and critique in order to give us a better understanding of our present epoch.