Metapolitics, algorithms and violence : new right activism and terrorism in the attention economy /
Maly, Ico,
Metapolitics, algorithms and violence : new right activism and terrorism in the attention economy / Ico Maly. - xiii, 330 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm - Routledge studies in fascism and the far right .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more fine-grained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence - an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. The 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"--
9781032251028 9781032254739
2023017519
Radicalism.
Right-wing extremists.
HN49.R33 / .M354M
Metapolitics, algorithms and violence : new right activism and terrorism in the attention economy / Ico Maly. - xiii, 330 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm - Routledge studies in fascism and the far right .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more fine-grained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence - an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. The 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"--
9781032251028 9781032254739
2023017519
Radicalism.
Right-wing extremists.
HN49.R33 / .M354M
