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Kill All Normies
''Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right'' is a 2017 non-fiction book by Angela Nagle published by Zero Books. It describes the development of internet culture, the nature of political correctness, the emergence of the alt-right and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Nagle offers a left-wing critique of contemporary social liberalism, arguing that it helped create the alt-right movement. Synopsis Nagle presents her work as an attempt to map the online culture wars that occurred in the early 2010s and how it resulted in the development of alt-right which played a major role in the election of Donald Trump. Nagle introduces the 2010s as a period in which "cyber utopianism" began to emerge with the rise of internet-based social activism such as the Arab Spring, Occupy movement, WikiLeaks, adbusters, and Anonymous which were based on decentralized leadership and online organization. This internet-based activism was immediately embrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Nagle
Angela Nagle (born 1984) is an Irish academic and non-fiction writer who has written for '' The Baffler'', ''Jacobin'', and others. She is the author of the book '' Kill All Normies'', published by Zero Books in 2017, which discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements. Nagle describes the alt-right as a dangerous movement but also criticizes aspects of the left that she says have contributed to the alt-right's rise. Since 2021, she has been publishing articles on a wide range of personal, political and cultural topics via the online publishing platform Substack. Early life and education Nagle was born in Houston, Texas, to Irish parents, then grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Dublin City University with a PhD for a thesis titled "An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements". Alt-right and culture wars Nagle's book ''Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |