Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more fine-grained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence - an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously.
Ico Maly is Associate Professor of Digital Media & Politics and coordinator of the Digital Culture Studies master track at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine and senior fellow at FRAN (Far-right Analysis Network).
Introduction 1. Ideology and activism in the digital age: theoretical and methodological reflections 2. The birth of metapolitics 2.0 3. The global new right and the algorithmic activism of Schild & Vrienden 4. Metapolitical influencers and far-right culture 5. Data voids, junk news and metapolitics 2.0 6. Metapolitical terrorism and digital media 7. The global new right: between mainstreaming and deplatformization 8. Metapolitics, algorithms and Violence Epilogue: Metapolitics, digital ethnography and democracy