What kind of fascism are we facing today, and how do technology corporations enable its emergence? Rather than treating fascism as a historical recurrence or purely ideological formation, the talk examines it as a contemporary system of power operating through technology, desire, and militarized visions of the future.
Focusing on the shift within Silicon Valley toward close cooperation with government and military institutions, it analyzes the mindset change that renders this alliance rational and desirable. Narratives of stagnation, existential threat, and Western decline frame technological acceleration and security infrastructures as moral imperatives, while liberal democracy is demonised as obstacle.
Drawing on D. Herzog’s Sex after Fascism, the body is framed as a key political site where sexuality and reproduction are strategically mobilized as tools of fascist governance. Building on this, the text examines a new fascist body shaped by artificial intimacy, reproductive technologies, binary tropes, and platform-driven desire economies.
Techno-fascism operates through the construction of narratives, producing tropes and myths of friend and enemy that organize protection and belonging, with sex and violence functioning as central instruments. 
The talk frames techno-fascism as an affective technological regime - governing through our wants, fears, and desires - and proposes strategies for rethinking resistance and (self-)defense