ECPR Research Network on Digital Authoritarianism <https://ecpr.eu/group/digital-authoritarianism> presents the online lecture: “A Materialist Critique of Technofascism" by Norma Möllers (Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada) 06 July 2026, Monday 14:00-15:30 CET (13:00-14:30 UK Time) Find the details and Zoom link here <https://ecpr.eu/news/news/details/930>. Get registered to the series here <https://ecpr.eu/Events/337>. In this talk, Dr. Möllers parses the current debate on technofascism(s) to develop a materialist understanding of technofascist formations from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anti-colonial perspectives. She demonstrates that a focus on materiality highlights both the ordinariness and global/planetary dimensions of contemporary technofascist formations. She argues that a materialist understanding of technofascist formations clarifies that the struggle against them must not be limited to resisting Big Tech but must encompass the abolition of all infrastructures of state violence. *Norma Möllers* is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, where she researches and teaches on technologies of state violence. Her forthcoming book Against Bias <https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262055581/against-bias/>, available open access with MIT Press, is an ethnography of how computer scientists make algorithmic surveillance technology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between algorithmic warfare and digital capitalism. At the moment, she is thinking a lot about the responsibility of intellectuals in times of fascism and what we can do to support the collective struggle. ----------- Dr. Ülker Sözen Postdoctoral research fellow (DFG 2022-2026, Gerda Henkel Foundation 2024-2027) Chair of Development Politics, University of Passau Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University IRGAC associate member, University of Potsdam