Macchinazioni micro-fasciste: antropocentrismo e biopolitiche di oppressione animale

In the present article we propose to give voice to the marginal and peripheral animal resistance, taking an antispecist position and analyzing the Deleuzian concept of micro-fascism. The aim is to highlight the constitutive relation between micro-fascisms, anthropocentrism and biopolitics of animal oppression, in order to delineate the theoretical and practical space of "a non-fascist life" (Foucault, 1994). Through the concept of micro-fascism Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari - without denying the historical value of totalitarianisms - shift the focus of their reflection on minute forms of desire for organization and control. These forces find their genealogy as manifestations of a tendency towards anthropocentric reification of the concept of subject. In this sense, fascism assumes a trans-historical or eternal value, following Eco, in so far as it is a movement that reduce the complexity of relationships, through the institution of a transcendent form of Subjectivity that forecloses the Other. For both Eco and Deleuze, fascisms coincide with "nebulae" or "black holes" that engulf Otherness, simultaneously erecting the subject as a center of power. In this contribution we will focalize on the foreclosure of the animal, marginalized as an entity that marks the constitutive Outside of man, an abysmal limit beyond which the anthropos announces itself as such. Lastly, we would like to outline the possibility of drawing a line of escape from the narcissistic obsession for auto-poiesis, focusing on Donna Haraway's concept of sympoiesis (of human and non-human), thinking simultaneously of possible forms of liberation, as a task always open and in the making.