Metapolitics Algorithms and Violence

<p><em>Metapolitics Algorithms and Violence</em> argues that we need a more finegrained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence – an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. </p><p>This book underlines the importance of socio-political economic historical and technological context in understanding the rise of the new right. More concretely based on a digital ethnographic approach it argues that we should understand this violence and the contemporary rise of new far-right practices and actors in relation to the theoretical renewal of <i>‘La Nouvelle Droite’ </i>in the 20th century; the ‘democratization’ of new right metapolitics in the 21st century as a result of the rise of digital media; and the development of a layered transnational and polycentric new right cultural niche in which far-right activists and terrorists produce identity discourse digital cultures and practices. </p><p>This work will be an engaging and necessary read for researchers interested in social media digital culture far-right politics extremism and terrorism. </p>