Alberto Toscano (born 1 January 1977) is an Italian
cultural critic,
social theorist,
philosopher, and
translator. He has translated the work of
Alain Badiou, including Badiou's The Century and Logics of Worlds. He served as both editor and translator of Badiou's Theoretical Writings and On Beckett.
His work has been described both as an investigation of the persistence of the idea of
communism in contemporary thought and a genealogical inquiry into the concept of
fanaticism.[2] He is the author of The Theatre of Production (2006), and his book Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea was published in 2010. Toscano has published on contemporary philosophy, politics and social theory. In an article on the
Tarnac 9 case, written for The Guardian in December 2009,[3] Toscano argues that society is losing its ability to distinguish between vandalism and terrorism.
(with Benjamin Noys)
Georges Bataille, Critical Essays. London and Calcutta: Seagull, 2023.
Edited book
(with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays in Liberation. London and New York: Verso, 2022.
Authored books
The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between
Kant and
Deleuze. Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2006.
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea. New York:
Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed..
Le Fanatisme. Modes d'emploi.
La fabrique, 2011 (FR).
Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle). Winchester, UK:
Zero Books, 2015.
The Communist Differend: Essays on Toni Negri and Alain Badiou. Tokyo: Koshisha, 2017.
Una visión compleja. Hacia una estética de la economía. Lima: Meier Ramirez, 2020.
La abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital. Santiago, Chile: Palinodia, 2021.
The SAGE Handbook of Marxism, in 3 vol. (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg). London:
SAGE, 2022.
Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum. London and Calcutta:
Seagull Books, 2023.
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. London and New York:Verso, 2023.