Kill all the normies Continue 2017 non-fiction book by Angela Nagle Kill All Armies AuthorAngela NagleCountryUkryBriaLanguageEnglishSubjectInternet Culture, alt-right, political correctnessEnreCultural StudiesPublishero BooksPublishation date2017Pages136 page ISBN978-1-78-535543-1 Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right - a 2017 book published by the journal The Book of zero. The focus is on the development of Internet culture, the nature of political correctness, the far right and the election of Donald Trump. Nagle offers a left-wing critique of modern liberalism and its role in creating the alt-right movement in response. Synopsis Nagle presents his work as an attempt to map the online culture wars that occurred in the early 2010s and how this led to the development of the alt-right, which was instrumental in the election of Donald Trump. Nagle presents the 2010s as a period in which cyber-utopia began to emerge with the rise of online social activism, such as the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, WikiLeaks, adbusters and Anonymous, which were based on decentralized leadership and online organizations. This Internet activity was immediately accepted by much of mainstream liberalism without any careful analysis or evaluation of the organizational structure and limitations of these Internet movements, which all led to a consistent failure and possible collapse. Many of these movements started on online forums based on images such as 4chan and 8chan. These forums, organized on the basis of anonymity, have developed a subculture among users, combining extremely transgressive and dark humor with a deeply misogynistic and racist attitude. In the second chapter, entitled Online Policy of Transgression, Nagle notes how political abuse has historically been linked to the political left, particularly the new left's policies adopted by the alt- right. Nagle footage is the acceptance of transgression on the part of political rights, due to the concept of moral transgression that can be traced to the eighteenth century figures of the Marquis de Sade, the Surrealists, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Punk subculture, and simultaneously in 1990s male frenzy films like the American Psychopath and The Fighting Club. This transgressive anti-moral style of the alt-right, according to Nagle, is their attempt to completely break away from the egalitarian philosophy of the left and christian morality of the right. In Chapter 3, Gramscians Of The Alt-Lite, Nagle focuses on the popularity of the French new right within the Alt-Right circles. The publication and reception of Kill All Normies received a polarizing reception from critics and reviewers, with Vice,4 New York, 56 and New Republic 7 publishing positive book reviews, whereas outlets such as The Daily Beast, CounterPunch, and the new socialist criticized Nagle's description of campus activity. A review by The Daily Beast said the book suffered from a negligent search and noted the claim that part of the book was plagiarized. Nagle and her publisher denied the allegations. Columnist Ross Dout of the New York Times praised Nagle's portrait of the online cultural war, and Times columnist Michelle Goldberg said Kill All Normies captured this phenomenon. Novelist George Saunders has listed Kill All Normies as one of his ten favorite books helping him in the current political moment. The episode of The Fusion Networks Trumpland series directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on the book. The Spanish edition was published in May 2018 by orciny Press, and the German edition in September 2018 by Transcript. References to the roots of the alt-right. Vox. Received 2018-11-28. Kill all but the army's zero book book is book information. www.zero-books.net. - Nagle, Angela (2017). Kill All But armies: Online Cultural Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right. The zero books. Cyberd, Roisin (May 12, 2017). Kill all the armies of the alt-right, but the left ends up looking worse. Motherboard. Vice. Received on November 6, 2018. McDougall, Park. Where did the Alt-Right come from? This book finds some uncomfortable answers. Scout. Received on November 6, 2018. Killing all armies is a terrible book. www.counterpunch.org. - What the alt-right learned from the left. The New Republic. Mark Dunbar (August 29, 2017). Book Review: Kill all armies. TheHumanist.com b Davis, Charles (May 19, 2018). Sloppy Sourcing Plague 'Kill All Armies' Alt-Right Book. A daily beast. 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The revolutionaries extracted from will not be able to change the world until they change the popular culture, Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist philosopher of the 1920s. Astonishingly, modern socialists embrace this idea, as do the alt-right. In Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle explores the internet's deepest and darkest subcultures to see how the far-right has revived cultural wars and helped Trump win the 2016 presidential election. Why are so many Internet users against liberal democracy? Did political correctness push them away from civilized political debate? And how did irony become one of the most dangerous weapons in online propaganda? The Economist's Open Future asked her to answer five questions in about 100 words each. Then there is an excerpt from the book. Economist: Who are the armies and why do some people want to kill them? Angela Nagle: Basically they are normal people with average tastes, opinions, political views, news sources and so on. When people get so far down the rabbit hole of obscure online political subcultures and forums it becomes impossible to relate to or explain things to a norm that is also seen as partly to blame for the problems of the world because of their ignorant unenlightened state. In other cases, the term is used to describe a socially well-adjusted rarely online person observed very online closed. That doesn't mean as a genuine call to kill the majority, of course, it's more like a radical political style slogan you could associate with Primal Scream's Kill All the Hippies or Philip K Dick Kill All the Others or Kill a Cop in Your Head. Economist: Liberalism inherently tolerates its detractors. However, is online culture so virulent, does it undermine the viability of liberalism? Ms. Nagle: Spend some time on Twitter or looking at YouTube comments, and you'll find it hard to maintain faith in liberal ideals of enlightenment for long. The reality of what we like when we got the freedom to say something that we like is actually very ugly. Public discourse has never been so idiotic, cruel, irrational and utterly meaningless in my life as it is now. The point of culture of war has taken us to actually war between two irreconcilable parties, and each side wants peace that the other would rather die than accept. When you get to this point, I'm not sure that a liberal public sphere is possible anymore. Those who advocate it tend to be genuinely motivated by the belief that their ideas will prevail in these circumstances. But liberalism is extremely weak right now, and I think much stronger ideologies are likely to trample it in the coming years. The Economist: Can the restrictive nature of political correctness inadvertently alienate people from progressive politics? Mrs. Nagle: No serious man can deny that he at this point, if they're honest. Many are attracted to progressive politics because to see that the world is unequal and unfair, and they want a better wage or education or health care. But they quickly learned that it wasn't enough. In order not to be cleared they need to learn an increasingly complex and strange set of correct positions that they must hold on a number of issues and they must continue to walk carefully and scaryly on eggshells to avoid the call. No humor or intellectual research is any longer possible in this environment. Think of any progressive intellect of any value of the last century and try to imagine how they survive today. They will just be cleaned up. They would have to dissent on some issue, and it wouldn't be tolerated. Economist: How did the far-right use irony to spread transgressive ideas? Do the extreme left do something like that, and if so, how? (And if not, why not?) Ms. Nagle: Irony and transgression have been aesthetic tools mostly used by the political left for a long time, of course they have been ever present since 1968. I write in a book about how the right has long dominated the noble kind of conservatism, and that pro-Trump right-wing youth politics marked a break from that. It took the liberal cultural mainstream and the left by surprise. Suddenly, when Trump was elected, liberal or left-wing journalists tried to catch up and understand what was ironic and what was real.