Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
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Kill All Normies
Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right

Author: Angela Nagle

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/07/2017

Synopsis

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 more 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair on May 28, 2017

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 be......more

Goodreads review by William on June 25, 2017

tl;dr: Eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 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 part......more

Goodreads review by Laura on October 23, 2020

WHERE! WAS! THE! EDITOR!!!!!! what the hell!!! Clearly from the chapter railing against Tumblr politics, we know Nagle is NOT someone who would ever be ~decolonizing grammar~. So what is the explanation for this????? Was there just no copy editor? Did I accidentally read a draft edition? There were......more

Goodreads review by Karl on March 31, 2018

Some reservations toward this book. It seems mostly just as if it's unfinished; typos abound, strangely wrong quips about PTSD, unclear and sporadic theses, repeatedly bafflingly caricaturistic presentations of Friedrich Nietzsche, etc. It felt like the book was in dire need of a good editor most of......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on August 12, 2017

Can't recommend this one highly enough. And to everyone. Essential to understanding how the death spiral of our national discourse *can only be understood dialectically.* Nagle makes the compelling case that the success of the alt-right and what she calls the alt-light (not really overtly Nazi, more......more

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