Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, exploring the key elements, characteristics, and historical background of far-right extremism. The volume also considers who produces and who consumes this culture, featuring contributions from emerging scholars in the field.
Chapters investigate the cultural output of far-right influencers in anime, podcasts, “fashwave” and white power music, gaming, memetic and visual culture, social media, publishing, chan culture, philosophy, and martial arts. The book further examines pivotal issues such as female far-right influencers, paranoia, and accelerationism. It is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and activists interested in the contemporary far right and its subcultures.
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture.
1.The Silence of Q: The Importance of Social Media Influencers in the
Maintenance of a Movement
2. Hes a Fed: Snitchjacketing and the Far-Rights
Culture of Paranoia
3. Hate Your Enemies The Culture of Extreme Right
Christgram Communities on Telegram
4. Misogyny of the Chan Ecosystem:
Cultural Practices and Structural Facilitators
5. Branding hate: Far-right
women influencers in India and North America
6. Hidden in Plain Sight:
Tradwives and their Role in the Far-Right Ecosystem on YouTube
7. Algorithms
and Echo Chambers: Examining the Canadian Far-Right on TikTok
8. Extremist
publishing houses and far-right cultural production
9. Far Right Fiction
10.
The far-rights weaponization of philosophy: from Fascism and Nazism to
contemporary far-right terrorism and violent extremism
11. Cultural and
Conspiracism: How Pervasive Conspiracy Theories Reflect Desires for Both
Individual and National Autonomy
12. Martialization, Masculinity and Money:
The Far Rights Use of Martial Arts and Combat Sports (MACS).
13. Americas
Militant Nostalgia: The Role of Accelerationism in the Contemporary
Militia-Patriot Movement
14. Eyes Full of Rage and A Heart Full of Hate:
White Power the Soundtrack of the White Revolution
15. Cultured thugs:
Status and distinction in an alt-right mens magazine
16. Reject Modernity,
Embrace Tradition: Fashwave and the Cooptation of Vaporwave by the Alt-Right
Marc-André Argentino received his PhD from Concordia University, Quebec, Canada.
Amarnath Amarasingam is an Associate Professor in the School of Religion and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
