Saladdin Bahozde, also known as Saladdin Ahmed, is a philosopher and critical theorist focusing on social space, aesthetics, social movements, social justice, and anti-fascism. His work constructs crucial frameworks for diagnosing ideologies and imagining progressive alternatives in the age of extremism.
Confronting the Beast Locally and Globally. This book constructs a crucial framework for diagnosing and exposing fascist ideologies and movements in whatever historical and geographical circumstances or disguises they may appear.
Arguing against conventional approaches that use the European model of the 1930s as a yardstick, Bahozde conceptualizes fascism as a form, rather than a system, of power and ideology.
Nationalism, Islamism, and Imagining Other Futures. Following decades of brutal campaigns against left forces, fascism in its nationalist and religious forms has been dominating Turkish, Iranian, and Arab politics for over half a century.
Saladdin Bahozde problematizes all forms of fascist exclusionism in the region, while drawing attention to anti-fascist resistance and progressive alternatives.
Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization. Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power.
The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our democratic capacities and created complex crises.
Antipoetry.
Horizons of Possibility in the Age of Extremism. This book revives the Critical Theory that endorses criticism, aiming to negate dominant regimes of truth.
Marginalized Voices and Dissent. Saladdin Ahmed shows that capitalism imposes a totalitarian social mode of existence and neoliberalism perpetuates fascism as a class of ideology.
We live today within a system in which state and corporate power aim to render space flat, transparent, and uniform. The resulting dominant space can best be termed totalitarian—space stripped of uniqueness.