Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

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.

Author: Angela Nagle
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 06/30/2017
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781785355431
ISBN10: 1785355430
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process | Media & Internet
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Conservatism & Liberalism
- Computers | Internet | Social Media

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.