Neofascist Propaganda in Contemporary Rome
The Fresno State Library presents “Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018–2019,” an exhibition that critically examines the rise of neofascism in Italy through the lens of visual and spatial propaganda (see the Jan. 27 listing).
The exhibition features materials collected by Dr. Brian J. Griffith, a historian at Fresno State, during his time in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship. Visitors will encounter posters, stickers, handbills and banners, many of which were “harvested” directly from the streets of Rome by Griffith during his time in Italy.
The exhibition offers an unsettling look at the strategies employed by Italy’s neofascist groups to insert their views into the public sphere, including design, selective memory and historical revisionism, to normalize far-right ideologies and shape public consciousness.
Griffith emphasizes the importance of recognizing and resisting these ideologies, particularly as Western democracies grapple with the rise of extremist movements. “In recent years, we have seen authoritarian ideas increasingly infiltrate the public sphere. By understanding the strategies these groups use, we can better combat their spread,” Griffith said.
“The exhibition illuminates the visual and spatial tactics used by far-right groups to push their politics into public spaces, challenging us to critically engage with the ways propaganda shapes our worldviews and the politics of memory. ”The exhibition title is drawn from the words of Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who wrote in his Prison Notebooks: “The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this interregnum, monsters are born.”
Following California’s water wars behind the scenes has been very interesting. A new San Joaquin River movie also just released before Christmas 2024 showing how big boats used to be caught from behind Woodward Park and sail to San Francisco Bay. San Francisco just sued Friant Dam 2023-2024 again for holding to much fresh water, the extinction of species, and to restore it to its capacity it was originally at 70 years ago. The Resnicks and the 1% who own California’s water especially in the San Joaquin Valley do not like having to return water. The way these greedy land owners privatize water dehydrates the land and blame environmentalist or D.E.I. programs is rhetoric. This robs 99% of the environment and the community of natural resources which has drastically altered the landscape since the establishment of these companies owning the water.
U.S.A has an interesting history of false flag operations also under the term COUPs where they used guerilla warfare, strategic tactics, political chaos, Regimes groups, controlling and misleading the mainstream outlets on all platforms to overthrow other countries and establish policy on the homeland. Trump is establishing executive orders to return our water back to privatized ownership due to the misinformation being announced to the public due to the fires in L.A.