Kill All Normies

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 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. Best Read Books Kill All Normies author Angela Nagle – kino-fada.fr I originally didn t want to read this book, only having read a few excerpts whining about Tumblrspecifically, trigger warnings and gender identity that made me not want to touch it The book kept popping up on my newsfeed, and so I decided to read it to see if it fulfills its hype Spoiler alert it doesn t In the past, I spent 2 years on 4chan on b and 2 years on Tumblr following liberals and then marxists That normally means nothing, but Nagle doesn t cite a single sentence i I originally didn t want to read this book, only having read a few excerpts whining about Tumblrspecifically, trigger warnings and gender identity that made me not want to touch it The book kept popping up on my newsfeed, and so I decided to read it to see if it fulfills its hype Spoiler alert it doesn t In the past, I spent 2 years on 4chan on b and 2 years on Tumblr following liberals and then marxists That normally means nothing, but Nagle doesn t cite a single sentence in her book There are no citations, no interviews, no statistics, nothing Maybe I m unfamiliar with how books of this genre are written, but you d think she d cite somet...I was expecting to be interested in this, but I didn t expect to be so impressed by it Angela Nagle writes so even handedly and with such a fair critical eye about recent iterations of disruptive political groupings on both the right and left On the right is the now notorious alt right, divided between the alt light , typified by meme making gleefully antagonistic trolling use of 4chan derived argot, and thegenuinely fascistic tendencies often masked by the headline grabbing behaviour o I was expecting to be interested in this, but I didn t expect to be so impressed by it Angela Nagle writes so even handedly and with such a fair critical eye about recent iterations of disruptive political groupings on both the right and left On the right is the now notorious alt right, divided between the alt light , typified by meme making gleefully antagonistic trolling use of 4chan derived argot, and thegenuinely fascistic tendencies often masked by the headline grabbing behaviour of alt light figures such as Milo Yiannopoulos On the left is what Nagle sometimes refers to as Tumblr liberalism , the extremely performative culture of calling out, victimhood and competitive identity politics that seems driven by and here I will quote Nagle quoting the late Mark Fisher, as it couldn t be paraphrased anyperfectly a priest...Some interesting stuff on various internet subcultures, but otherwise yeesh Nagle is willing to sympathise with the bigoted subcultures present on 4chan reddit in order to fully interpret the ideas motivations behind their politics, but is largely unwilling to do the same with tumblr, even when they stem from legitimate grievances She seems to have it in for trigger warnings in particular, culminating in this winning line Trigger warnings had to be issued in order to avoid the unexpected Some interesting stuff on various internet subcultures, but otherwise yeesh Nagle is willing to sympathise with the bigoted subcultures present on 4chan reddit in order to fully interpret the ideas motivations behind their politics, but is largely unwilling to do the same with tumbl...A book that makes a compelling case that sociopathy is in fact a bad thing.Also, that nerds are actually much worse than jocks A highly unsympathetic cyber genealogy of the alt right that is at the same time an unsparing account of the vicious stupidity of woke liberal twitter shaming Reading it will likely leave you in a state of deep despair and misanthropy Hard to avoid the conclusion that we simply lack the intellectual tools to escape collective ruin A truly terrible review from Count A book that makes a compelling case th...I was very disappointed by this book I grew up on and with the Internet and I love reading about culture wars However, in addition to inexcusably sloppy editing and bad writing Please, someone ask Angela Nagle about Barak Obama or Peter Theil, or why she s apparently on a first name basis with Milo Yiannopoulos despite consistently referring to others by their surnames , the book lacks any kind of affection for any of these subcultures That is, I would have expected her to take...tl dr Eh _ _ Nagle brings a lot of valuable research and firsthand reporting to helping people make sense of the various facets of the alt right, but it wasn t nearly as compelling as I was expecting from a book about the internet communities that have emerged in the past decade The best parts are the really detailed outlines of the various factions of the right s anti feminist and white supremacist groups, as well as the philosophical explanations of the anti moral subversive nature of 4ch tl dr Eh _ _ Nagle brings a lot of valuable research and firsthand reporting to helping people make sense of the various facets of the alt right, but it wasn t nearly as compelling as I was expecting from a book about the internet communities that have emerged in the past decade The best parts are the really detailed outlines of the various factions of the right s anti feminist and white supremacist groups, as well as the philosophical explanations of the anti moral subversive nature of 4chan.But the key part of Nagle s argument is that the Tumblr left and the alt right are locked in a feedback loop where each group reacts to each other s perceived ridiculousness an...edit its only about 3 months old, but has already aged poorlyhttps medium.com differengenera anmostly a fun, easy read, but drifts off into some very sketchy territory, especially when discussing tumblr and trigger warnings Completely put off by the following quotation, where Nagle seems think that you can t get PTSD from anything other than war Trigger warnings had to be issued in order to avoid the unexpectedly high number of young women who had never gone to war claiming to have pos edit its only about 3 months old, but has already aged poorlyhttps medium.com differengenera anmostly a fun, easy read, but drifts off into some very sketchy territory, especially when discussing tumblr and trigger warnings Completely put off by the following quotation, where Nagle seems think that you can t get PTSD from anything other than war Trigger warnings had to be issued i...What the Tumblrites embody is a taxonomical politics which is driven drive in psychoanalytic terms by the techno fetishist belief in pure communication and individual empowerment It is in this way that language has become so central to politics The clarification of terms, the bracketing of difference and the weighing of...This is what cultural criticism should be it draws on academic theory while remaining readable, is capable of impassioned polemic and clear partisanship while remaining relentlessly fair regarding matters of fact, and in general, it knows its stuff Like Nagle, I am perhaps overly familiar with the forms of online discourse she describes and that she was able to do so so accurately makes me trust her on everything else for instance, on the fascinating history of how representations of the This is what cultural criticism should be it draws on academic theory while remaining readable, is capable of impassioned polemic and clear partisanship while remaining relentlessly fair regarding matters of fact, and in general, it know...First of all Holy shit This is a book that I have been waiting to read for quiet some time now, but the level of insight and highly comprehensive discussion of what is going on in the cultural wars on the Web by Nagle exceeded my expectations It reminded me of early works by Naomi Klein which combined the journalistic approach to the material at hand with detailed, but still accessible discussion of the theoretical aspect of the subject.Nagle discusses the ongoing or lost cultural war betw First of all Holy shit This is a book that I have been waiting to read for quiet some time now, but the level of insight and highly comprehensive discussion of what is going on in the cultural wars on the Web by Nagle exceeded my expectations It reminded me of early works by Naomi Klein which combined the journalistic approach to the material at hand with detailed, but still accessible discussion of the theoretical aspect of the subject.Nagle discusses the ongoing or lost cultural war between Tumblr liberalism vs 4 chan inspired alt right while both of the terms comprises of highly heterogenous elements Internet, once lauded as the free, horizontal space of a new kind of anarchical democracy not long ago but around 2013 many of the liberal left still saw and hailed the new democratic terrai...

• English
• 14 February 2018
Angela Nagle
• ebook
• 136 pages
• 1785355449
• Angela Nagle
• Kill All Normies