The Incitement: An Account of Language, Power, and Fascism

Fascism is currently resurgent in national governments and enhanced popular acceptance of fascist ideas. But preconditions fascism may also lie ordinary language or speech. I draw from twentieth-century structuralism to support this claim. An account how modern institutions exercise control over entire populations by inciting individuals speak versions truth about themselves presiding authorities forms the centerpiece my analysis. define rhetorical political phenomenon as incitement. My analysis emphasizes Michel Foucault’s works while identifying complementary arguments other thinkers structuralist context (like Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari) well contemporary figures (such Giorgio Agamben, Michelle Alexander, Judith Butler, Ibram X. Kendi). conclude highlighting avenues for future research on incitement latent fascism.