Alberto Toscano

Toscano's own 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.[1] He is the author of The Theatre of Production (2006), and his book Fanaticism: 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,[2] Toscano argues that society is losing its ability to distinguish between vandalism and terrorism.

A reader in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Toscano is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. According to Alex Callinicos this journal "has been one of the main drivers of the academic revival of Marxism" [3] since the mid-1990s.

Translated books

• Alain Badiou, Logics of Worlds, London: Continuum, 2009.
• Alain Badiou, The Century, London: Polity, 2007.
• (with M. Mandarini) Antonio Negri, Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, London: Verso, 2007.
• Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
• (with Ray Brassier), Alain Badiou, Theoretical Writings, London: Continuum, 2004.
• (with E.R. Albert), Éric Alliez, The Signature of the World, Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy?, London: Continuum, 2004.
• (with Nina Power), Alain Badiou, On Beckett, London: Clinamen Press, 2003.

Authored books

• Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
• Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea, New York: Verso, 2010. Le Fanatisme. Modes d'emploi, La fabrique, 2011 (FR).
• Cartographies of the Absolute, with Jeff Kinkle, Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2015.

• Marx Reloaded, ZDF/Arte, April 2011.

• Speculative realism

• Toscano's Faculty Homepage at Goldsmith's, University of London website
• Rethinking Marxism and Religion, an essay Toscano published at the website: Bienvenue sur le site du séminaire Marx au XXIe siècle
• Toscano's Author Page at Institute for the Unstable Media
• Communist knowledge/Communist power – transcript of Toscano's paper delivered on day two of the Birkbeck Communism conference in London, March 2009
• Dual Power Revisited: From Civil War to Biopolitical Islam essay which appeared in the journal Soft Target; this is the on-line version
• Chronicles of Insurrection - Tronti, Negri and the Subject of Antagonism an on-line reprint of an essay by Toscano first published in Cosmos and History 5.1 (2009)