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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Matthew Flisfeder This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and politics, that between the democratic and commercial logics...
View articletitled, “Trump”—What Does the Name Signify? or, Protofascism and the <span class="search-highlight">Alt</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Right</span>: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Quinn Slobodian This article shows that the incorporation of right-wing libertarians into the Alt Right coalition was the end result of a schism in the neoliberal intellectual movement in response to the egalitarian challenge of the 1960s. In a symmetry with developments on the post-Marxist Left...
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View articletitled, Anti-’68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the <span class="search-highlight">Alt</span> <span class="search-highlight">Right</span>
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 1 Alt Right libertarianism. A meme reproduced frequently online depicts Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Ludwig von Mises in the style of Alt Right icon Pepe the Frog. The background is the yellow and black flag of anarcho-capitalism.
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Teh Internet Is Serious Business: On the Deep Vernacular Web and Its Discontents
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 214–232.
Published: 01 July 2020
... aims to contribute to contemporary debates on the reactionary turn in internet culture associated with the global rise of the alt-right. 8 An instance of coordinated collective action that pitted “hard-core gamers” against their perceived “social justice warrior” opponents, Gamergate undeniably...
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American Conservatism Unmoored: The Dissident Right's Adoption of Leftist Agitational Strategies
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and the rise of the “alternative right” or “alt-right.” In various ways both of these elements embraced an aversive style of politics, essentially breaking with conservatism's preferred strategy of control and thereby challenging the unspoken rules of engagement that had come to define liberal triumphalism...
View articletitled, American Conservatism Unmoored: The Dissident <span class="search-highlight">Right's</span> Adoption of Leftist Agitational Strategies
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The Fat Imaginary in Trump's America: Matter, Metaphor, and Animality
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to stereotypes about Trump voters by proposing that Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson “lost because he’s athletic and slim” ( Wirtz 2016 ). The idea of fatness as stupidity has had rightist expressions as well. No doubt pleased to have broad electoral support, various sectors of the so-called alt-right...
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Brexit Plus, Whitelash, and the Ascendency of Donald J. Trump
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 July 2017
... candidates, including Jeb Bush who was broadly believed to have won before the primaries began, and who was one of the first to fall victim to Trump’s ability to define “losers” and destroy his opponents. Trump brought into his campaign some of the most extreme components of the alt-right and had a tenuous...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 263–272.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Slobodian unpacks the origins of neoliberal conservatism in opposition to the struggles of the 1960s. In his critical genealogy of the Alt Right, Slobodian underscores the ways that 1968 was a time of both revolution and inchoate counterrevolution, examining how the attendant cultural turn shaped...
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Donald Trump, Globalization, and the Russia Connection in Election 2016
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to get lower wages, less regulation, and higher profits, Trump translated the issue of globalization into bad trade deals and rule by a corrupt global elite that the Clintons were allegedly part and parcel of (for some of Trump’s alt-right supporters, this global corrupt establishment was a Jewish elite...
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The Digital Calculus of Racial Capitalism
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 473–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . Daniels Jessie . 2018 . “ The Algorithmic Rise of the ‘Alt-Right.’ ” Contexts 17 , no. 1 : 60 – 65 . http:/doi.org/10.1177/1536504218766547 . Noble Safiya Umoja . 2018 . Algorithms of Oppression . New York : New York University Press . ...
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NORMCORE PLUTOCRATS in GOLD ELEVATORS: Reading the Trump Tower Photographs
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Press 2019 An important component of this nexus interconnecting the men in the lift is their relationship to imperialism and racism. Donald Trump’s political pronouncements and behavior, while erratic, have notoriously supported the racist views of the “alt-right.” He has called Mexicans rapists...
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Exhausted Montage: Radical Cinema Post ’68
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 358–371.
Published: 01 November 2019
... are roundly dismissed and dehumanized, immigrant families are ripped apart, and people of color murdered by the agents of racist and militarized state institutions without consequence. Moreover, with the Alt-Right growing in power and visibility, neorealism’s antifascism is once again terrifyingly relevant...
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Imagining the Nation as a “Web” of Animals: Affective Entanglements between Animality and (Nation)alism
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the use of wolf images by North American white supremacist alt-right groups, while Narayanan ( 2019 ) has discussed the weaponization of the image of the (sacred) cow by the Hindu(tuva) right, especially in anti-Muslim and anti-Dalit violence. Despite these existing contributions, a closer examination...
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“Destabilized Perception”: Infrastructural Aesthetics in the Films of Adam Curtis
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 304–326.
Published: 01 November 2018
... on platforms favored by the alt-right, such as Breitbart News and InfoWars ( Hudnall 2010 ; Finn 2015) , adds to an increasing sense of unease concerning Curtis’s methods of filmmaking and regarding his political motives. Former admirers now caution against a case of “the emperor’s new clothes” ( Hancox...
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On Designerization of Media Culture in the Age of Software
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of, especially, Alan Kay. Manovich does not refer to Casey Alt’s (2011) work on object-oriented programming and on the shift that occurred as computers became media machines, but he offers a similar argument, discussing the implementation of media as part of computers, as well as the shift from Turing-land...
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Žižek: Sex and the Prospect of (Political) Impotence
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., particularly a kind of psychoanalysis of displacements (fetishist disavowal) onto scapegoats. Here the populist Alt-right is seen to capitalize on the failure of the Left in order to introduce a new series of scapegoats—diverting anger away from the real cause of the problem—the world of neoliberalism. Much...
