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The point of departure for the exhibition and accompanying publication "Details" is Slovenian theorist Rastko Mo?nik's collection of texts entitled 'How Much Fascism?'. In the midst of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Mo?nik related the conflicts and the rise of fascist forces to the structural consequences of the introduction and reconstruction of peripheral capitalism. Today, with an alarming right-wing ascendancy throughout Europe, we should direct our gaze beyond the 'peripheries' and towards the core of liberal democracy. Mo?nik's basic postulate remains — the question is not 'fascism — yes or no?' but 'How much fascism?'.
Open manifestations of fascism are fairly easy to recognize (just as more and more of them are appearing), but we need to turn our attention to the silent fascism that is becoming normalized through the systematic violence seeping into the laws and everyday administration practices of the nation states, and to assess the mechanisms of oppression and the various symptoms of contemporary fascism that are being presented as unavoidable, pragmatic necessities. In other words, we have to look at the details.
