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Kill All Normies
- Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground 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 signaling 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.
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- Doug Segal
- 25-04-18
Worst narration ever
I’m only 30mins in but I might have to give the book back for refund.
It’s the worst narration I’ve ever heard.
It’s clear that she’s never seen the script before reading it aloud and it’s actually following it.
She stumbles over words, has strange intonation, stresses words in a way that runs counter to the sense of what she’s reading, mispronounces words and there are bits where you can hear that she’s had to record that individual word again because she is struggling with it.
As a result it’s incredibly hard to follow the thrust of the book as the author intended.
It’s SHOCKINGLY bad and very jarring.
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- Conor O'Sullivan
- 10-11-17
Excellent summary
A well researched and enjoyably presented look into the sources of the alt right. Looking forward to listening through a second time to pick up on things that I might have missed first time around.
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- Kevin Volf
- 11-06-18
Objective, scholarly, accessible
In my opinion this book provides the serious and lucid analysis which this subject had been missing. Not a hysterical diatribe or ideological polemic but a thoughtful reaction with scrupulous regard for the facts. Thought provoking
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- 12-04-18
An antidote to political schism
An attempt to crawl from the depressing sludge which is consuming us all. A book to be cited.
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- Tony
- 09-11-17
Very interesting
Found this a fascinating insight into an area I don't really understand and feel I can no longer ignore.
Also narrator's style and cadence really suited the content.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-03-23
A little scrappy…
Very interesting subject, but I feel like there is a bigger book that could be more thoroughly researched. The structure just feels a bit messy and rushed, but perhaps that’s because I’ve had the privilege of listening to some exceptionally in-depth books lately. Also, the narration is below average.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-03-23
Concise and incisive. Will hold your attention
Well written. Uncompromising and insightful.
1st time I've seen "Dks out for Harambe" and "panopticon" in the same chapter.
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- echo
- 23-01-23
Not especially persuasive.
The core thesis is that something about certain online spaces creates a particular kind of radicalisation, and intellectual atrophy. This argent is built on a history of tumblr and the chans. My problem is mostly methodological. We're given this history, and an interpretation of it in terms of the 'decay of the left' chat the author finds plausible, but no independent grounds to buy that frame. That frame, being the interesting and controversial part, and so the thing that in need of an interesting argument.
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- shannon
- 05-01-23
I owe you big time
I owe Angela Nagle big time for this book. Her book proved as vital research for me and I can’t thank her enough! Excellent insight into recent internet history and how it impacts greater politics.
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- Joe McGuchan
- 16-11-21
must read for veterans of the culture wars
I've spent basically my whole life online, and have seen the events that this book describes first hand. The author takes these formative experiences, and explains and justifies them as part of a wider narrative of cultural change. Thee internet isn't stupid or niche anymore, it's the central landscape that our debates take place on, and it is incredibly refreshing to see a philosopher take this seriously. Yes, the discussions of memes and drama might seem stupid. But this is the reality of the cultural landscape the western world lives within, and it's refreshing to see someone take the irony seriously for once.
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