New Translation: Agustín L. Prestifilippo on the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the Emergence of Neo-Fascism

We are excited to publish the newly translated article by Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo, “After the Great Celebration.” Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where he also teaches and coordinates the Contemporary Critical Theory Study Group (GETeCC) at the Gino Germani Institute. His work focuses on critical theory, classical German philosophy, cultural criticism, and neoliberalism. Among his publications are El lenguaje del sufrimiento. Estética y política en la teoría social de Theodor Adorno [The Language of Suffering: Aesthetics and Politics in the Social Theory of Theodor Adorno] (2018) and, as co-editor, the anthologies Crisis y crítica. Intervenciones en presente sobre el futuro de la emancipación [Crisis and Critique: Present Interventions on the Future of Emancipation] (2021) and Dilemas contemporáneos de la teoría crítica de la sociedad [Contemporary Dilemmas of Critical Social Theory] (2024). In his article, originally published in 2024, he investigates the perhaps unexpected affinity between the moments of collective joy following Argentina’s 2022 World Cup victory and the surge of right-wing radicalism, shedding light on the emergence of neo-fascism through an Adornian lens.