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Kill All Normies

Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right

by Angela Nagle
Mary Sarah
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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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  • Release date

    November 7, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781541495333
      • File size: 117954 KB
      • Duration: 04:05:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When the culture wars went digital, they went to places previously unknown. Author Nagle unpacks what she calls the trolls of 4Chan, the fascist Alt-right, and other extremist ideologues who have infiltrated the world today. Narrator Mary Sarah's crisp English accent and clear voice prove appealing as Nagle explains her sophisticated ideas-- how Gramscian ideas helped fascists prosper, for example. While Sarah's timing is effective in pacing the complex commentary, her tone is sometimes flat. Nonetheless, Nagle's exploration of how the ideals and possibilities of the online world have been lost or corrupted by a fascistic right, anarchistic extremists, and a constantly infighting left will have listeners wondering where we can go from here. L.E. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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