Kill All Normies
Online Culture Wars From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-right
Zer0 Books · Print & ebook · June 30, 2017
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp look at internet-era culture wars, their subcultures, and the older currents beneath them.
- Themes
- Online culture wars, Alt-right and feminist subcultures, Cultural genealogies
- Genres
- Pop Culture Studies, Feminist Theory & Criticism, How Media Works
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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.
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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.
Culture War Online
A sharp look at internet-era culture wars, their subcultures, and the older currents beneath them.
Come here for
- The uneasy overlap of online politics, identity, and cultural history
- A bridge from fringe internet scenes to mainstream political expression
Expect
- Connections between contemporary subcultures and past cultural movements
- A critical case against the perpetual cultural turn
Where it sits
| Pop Culture Studies | 34% |
|---|---|
| How Media Works | 30% |
| Feminist Theory & Criticism | 25% |
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Publisher categories
- Social Media & Online Life
- How Cultures Work
- Pop Culture Studies
- Authors
- Angela Nagle
- Publisher
- Zer0 Books
- Published
- June 30, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Online culture wars · Alt-right and feminist subcultures · Cultural genealogies
- Reading lane
- Social Media & Online Life