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Masochism and Terror: Fight Club and the Violence of Neo-fascist Ressentiment

My contribution to this series of articles in Telos is not that of an historian or a social theorist, and it does not deal with totalitarianism in anything other than a rather spectral sense. To this extent, it might seem a little out of place. This essay concerns itself not with the analysis of a specific historical society that might (or might not) be characterized as totalitarian, but with the way in which a certain sense of the totalitarian has shaped the self-understanding of liberal Western popular culture. It starts from two very different points. At the level of theory,...