Maria Maddalena Lenzi
M. Maddalena Lenzi is an Italian designer and cultural mediator based in Basel, CH. With a BA in Advertising and an MA in Transversal Design, she works at the intersection of community-oriented projects, CIVIC spaces, and cultural organizing. In community, M.M. practices collective conspiring against authoritarian storytelling and atomizing infrastructures. Recently, she has co-organized HackThePromise Festival 2025, joined the Unofficial Hiking Society, and contributed to various happenings.
Session
This talk examines far-right communicative fascism through the concept of Really Fake, where truth and fiction blur across synthetic media and platformed virality. Through case studies of Trump and Meloni, it explores conspiracy theories and their alternative realities as deliberate tools of far-right world-making, then repurposing conspiring as a collective and subversive practice of resistance.