My abstract for the workshop on 'Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices' to be held at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

An anti-fascist teaching practice is also anti-AI.

The intervention I propose is first and foremost aimed at participants in the workshop. It will argue that AI is a vector for fascistic currents in education and society, and that an anti-fascist teaching practice means resisting AI both as a pedagogic tool and more broadly. The presentation will emphasise that AI is fascistic not only because of the fusion between MAGA and Silicon Valley accelerationism, but due to AI's core operations and infrastructural dependencies. Moreover, AI is being mobilised as a direct attack on teaching and education as such, with the net effect of eliminating spaces of critical thought. Where AI comes to predominate, inside education or in society, it extends a technologically-mediated metapolitics that is fundamentally misogynist and eugenicist.

Spaces of teaching and learning are fundamental to nurturing anti-fascist subjectivities through habits of relational and collective thinking. It's vital that this isn't outmaneuvered by modes of microfascism that are made opaque by manifesting as advanced technologies. The presentation will propose approaches to anti-fascist teaching practice that resist AI's legitimation of fascistic tendencies.