Left theory and the Alt-Right

The alt-right movement in the US has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its endsand with varying degrees of success. Tracing occasions where figures on the alt-right reference left theory, this volume asks if the alt-rights reference of left theory is just bad reading, or are...

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Weitere Verfasser: Di Leo, Jeffrey R. 1963- (HerausgeberIn), McClennen, Sophia A. 1965- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
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  • Introduction; Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia A. McClennen; 1 Steal this Theory: How the Alt-Right Accomplished the Intellectual Crime of the Century by Stealing Theory from the Left; Jeffrey R. Di Leo; 2 Whats in a Face? Theory of the Mask ; Robin Goodman; 3 Inertia Creeps: Critique and the Poetics of Complicity; Peter Hitchcock; 4 Unbridging Art and Life in the Alt-Right Avant-Garde; Héctor Hoyos; 5 Torture Yoo; Jacques Lezra; 6 The Three Stooges: How David Horowitz, Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson Turned Academic Freedom into Right-Wing Slapstick ; Sophia A. McClennen; 7 Rocket Theory ; Rita Raley and Russell Samolsky; 8 The Zionists Gambit: Israel Politics, the "Antisemitism" Ruse, and the Rightist Weaponization of Identity; Benjamin Schreier; 9 The 3-D Printed Gun and the Logic of Simulation; Geoff Schullenberger; 10 The Online House of Mirrors: Left Theory, Alt-Right Tactics, and Anticoalitional Digital "Communities" ; Gina Stinnett; 11 The Public Use of Ressentiment; Zahi Zalloua; Notes on Contributors; Index