Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence
New Right Activism and Terrorism in the Attention Economy
- 330 pages
- English
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Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence
New Right Activism and Terrorism in the Attention Economy
About this book
Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more finegrained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence – an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously.
This book underlines the importance of socio-political, economic, historical and technological context in understanding the rise of the new right. More concretely, based on a digital ethnographic approach, it argues that we should understand this violence and the contemporary rise of new far-right practices and actors in relation to the theoretical renewal of 'La Nouvelle Droite' in the 20th century; the 'democratization' of new right metapolitics in the 21st century as a result of the rise of digital media; and the development of a layered, transnational and polycentric new right cultural niche in which far-right activists and terrorists produce identity, discourse, digital cultures and practices.
This work will be an engaging and necessary read for researchers interested in social media, digital culture, far-right politics, extremism and terrorism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Ideology and activism in the digital age: theoretical and methodological reflections
- 2 The birth of metapolitics 2.0
- 3 The global new right and the algorithmic activism of Schild & Vrienden
- 4 Metapolitical influencers and far-right culture
- 5 Data voids, junk news and metapolitics 2.0
- 6 Metapolitical terrorism and digital media
- 7 The global new right: between mainstreaming and deplatformization
- 8 Metapolitics, algorithms and violence
- Epilogue: metapolitics, digital ethnography and democracy
- Index