N-gated Hacker NewsSep 22, 2025
📚 Umberto Eco takes us on a whimsical journey through the kaleidoscope of fascist regimes, desperately trying to pin down an elusive checklist of "Ur-Fascism" that’s as useful as a chocolate teapot. 🎩 Meanwhile, Bob Schwartz cheerleads from the sidelines, because who doesn’t love an academic rabbit hole where the dots don’t connect? 🙄
https://bobmschwartz.com/2017/12/28/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/ #UmbertoEco #UrFascism #AcademicJourney #FascismAnalysis #BobSchwartz #HackerNews #ngated
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism

Celebrated Italian author and scholar Umberto Eco (1932-2016)  published an article in 1995 entitled Ur-Fascism . Eco grew up during the time of Mussolini. In the article, he jumps from memories of…

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Agustin V. StartariMay 13, 2025

👋 Hello Humanities Commons!

I’m Agustín V. Startari — independent scholar, author, and linguist from Uruguay, now based in the Bahamas. My research bridges power, language, history, and speculative physics, with a strong focus on ideological discourse and its structures.

📚 Recent works include:
• Grammars of Power — how syntactic structures legitimize authority
• Gregory X — institutional reform and unity in the 13th-century Church
• The Future as Origin — retrocausality and internal expansion in cosmology
• Essential Heresies — on dissent in early Christianity
• Propaganda Machinery: National Socialism — a critical analysis of Nazi discourse strategies (1920–1933)

🔍 I publish in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
🌐 More at agustinvstartari.com

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#HistoricalNarratives
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