Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence: New Right Activism and Terrorism in the Attention Economy (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) - Softcover

Maly, Ico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032251026 ISBN 13: 9781032251028

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Ico Maly is Associate Professor of Digital Media & Politics and coordinator of the Digital Culture Studies master track at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine and senior fellow at FRAN (Far-right Analysis Network).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032251026
• ISBN 13: 9781032251028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344