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Anthony Faramelli

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Anthony Faramelli

Position

Lecturer and Co-Programme Leader BA Fine Art and History of Art

Department

Visual Cultures

Email

a.faramelli (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Goldsmiths Centre for Migrant Futures

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures and the co-Programme Leader for the BA in Fine Art and History of

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a psychosocial researcher and practitioner whose work is grounded in issues of coloniality and the theories and practices of institutional analysis. His current research projects examine digital cultures and the Alt-Right, psychotherapy's aesthetics practices, and the resistant networks formed by Latin American diasporic communities.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Critical Humanities, The London Graduate School, Kingston University 2014

Teaching and supervision

Research interests

Anthony’s work transverses issues of biopolitics, digital cultures, dataveillance, aesthetics, mental health, micro-fascism, politics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Specifically, his research engages with the practice and legacy of Frantz Fanon, the coloniality of institutional structures, schizoanalysis and the ethico-aesthetic, and zapatismo, the political philosophy of the Zapatista resistants.

Anthony is the author of Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics and an editor, with Rob White and David Hancock, of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault. He is currently completing a monograph on digital media, psychometrics and the alt-Right provisionally titled The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the Age of Machines: Data, Surveillance and Control.

Featured publications

Publications and research outputs

Article

Faramelli, Anthony. 2024. Psychiatric Abolition: Deinstitutionalisation and Containment. History of the Human Sciences, ISSN 0952-6951

Faramelli, Anthony. 2023. Introduction: Why Institutional Analysis, Why Now? Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 17(2), pp. 161-168. ISSN 2398-9777

Faramelli, Anthony. 2023. Crisis and Resistance: Institutional Psychotherapy and the Politics of Care. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 17(2), pp. 196-216. ISSN 2398-9777

Book

Faramelli, Anthony. 2018. Resistance, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350050068

Book Section

Faramelli, Anthony. 2024. Institutional Psychotherapy from Saint-Alban to La Borde by Jean Oury. In: Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel, eds. Materialism and Psychotherapy. Berlin: ICI Press.

Faramelli, Anthony. 2020. Mirrors and Masks: The Political Space of Zapatismo. In: David Hancock; Anthony Faramelli and Robert G. White, eds. Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9781350021129

Faramelli, Anthony. 2015. Amour Fou and the Ecstasy of Destruction or Love in Neoliberal Times. In: Edia Connole and Gary J. Shipley, eds. Serial Killing: A Philosophic Anthology. New York: Schism Press, pp. 199-214. ISBN 9781515154853

Edited Book

Hancock, David; Faramelli, Anthony and White, Robert G., eds. 2018. Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350021129

Edited Journal

Faramelli, Anthony, ed. 2023. Sur Analysis: Institutional Psychotherapy and Institutional Analysis, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 17(2). 2398-9777

Professional projects

Anthony is on the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies, the editorial board of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies and a founding member of the Network for Institutional Analysis.

Research projects

Refugee Cartographies
Refugee Cartographies sets out to map the social networks and group dynamics of London’s Latin American communities, specifically the refugees who came to London from Latin American countries in the

Conferences and talks

2024: Cartographies of Resistance: Mapping Ontologies After Deleuze, Guattari and Deligny
IV Jornadas Deleuze: ontología práctica. VI Jornadas de la Red de Estudios Latinoamericanos Deleuze y Guattari, University of Buenos Aries, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2024: Control Fascism: The Psychosocial Structure of Neoreactionary Movements in Latin America and Beyond
Neoreactionary in the Digital, Université Le Havre-Normandie, Le Havre, France

2024: On Cowboys and Indians: Double Alienation & the Construction of Whiteness in the American Southwest
Marxism in Culture, Institute of Advanced Practices, UCL

2024: The Fascist Abject
The French Connection II, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

2023: Resistance as the Method
Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference, The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, Serbia

2022: The Fascist Part Object: (Post)Media pedagogy and the Formation of Subjectivity
Guattari + 30, University Paris 8, Paris.

2022: Psychosocial Cartographies: Interventions Critical and Clinical
Psychosocial Cartographies, Anglo-American University, Prague, Czechia

2022: Institutional Cartographies: Analysing the Social After Guattari and the CERFI
Social Ontology After Deleuze, University of Science and Technology, Prague, Czechia

2021: Spaces of Refuge: The Clinical Practice of Félix Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy
Deleuze and Guattari Studies 2021 Conference, Charles University, Prague

2020: Mass Psychology in the Digital Age
Association for Psychosocial Studies Autumn 2020 Programme

2019: Neoliberalism and the Fascism of Everyday Life
Fascism? Populism? Democracy? Critical Theories in a Global Context, Critical Theory Consortium, University of Brighton

2018: Fanon and the Black Panthers
Other ‘68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68, Nottingham University

2017: On Cowboys and Indians: History, Fantasy and Southwest Kitsch
What Should White Culture Do? Art, Politics, Race, Royal College of Arts, London

2017: Why Institutional Analysis, Why Now
Sur Analysis: Reconstructing Institutional Psychotherapy, Kingston University and Central Saint Martins, University of London

2015: Revolutionary Substance: From Multitude to Zapatismo
Deleuze and Guattari, Refrains of Freedom, Athens, Greece

2015: Digital Resistance
Critical Spaces: Disorientating the Topographical, Kingston University, London, UK

2013: Fanon and the Contest of Historiographies: The Limits of Strategic Essentialism
Postcolonial Studies Association Conference – History, Postcolonialism and Tradition, Kingston University, London, UK

2013: From the cracks in history: the Zapatista mask, history and decolonized identity
Somatechnics International Conference – Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation, Linköping University, Sweden

2012: Fighting With Bataille: Fight Club, Community and The Gift of Death
Film-Philosophy Conference 2012, King's College London; Queen Mary; Kingston University, UK

Consultation and Reflective Practice

Dr Faramelli is a group practitioner with a specialty in institutional analysis and reflective practice for staff teams working in mental health and housing. He also has experience consulting for arts and culture organisations. He currently works as a consultant and reflective practice facilitator for the Housing Solutions service in Southwark Council. Past clients include charities providing accommodation for individuals with complex needs / multiple disadvantages (substance misuse, people who hear voices / have visions and/or other unusual experiences and beliefs).