Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right
Jun 2017 · John Hunt Publishing
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Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures right through to its mainstream expression. Kill All Normies explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 60s libertinism and conservative movements, to make the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.
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Brett Siler
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September 25, 2018
Angela Nagle goes deep into internet subcultures of the "woke" left and the alt-right and how they have gone from the depths of their underground online communities to an influence over mainstream culture. If your wonder how the hell we've gotten here then I highly recommend this book!
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Jerome Fournier
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September 20, 2020
Did not get very far. I did not expect much frankly but I was almost instantly dispointed anyway. This is somewhat more informed than the usual trash about these subjects but it nearly imediatly falls into the usual "but wont someone think of the women!" and I gave up at the description of Sarkeesean's uninformed series as "intelectual discourse"
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Thomas Ostersen
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June 19, 2017
Very good account of the new 4chan and tumblr driven culture wars.
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About the author
Angela Nagle's work has appeared in the Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, the Irish Times and many other journals. She's also the co-editor of Ireland Under Austerity from Manchester University Press.
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