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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The rise of Youtube “street content”

  • The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

  • The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

  • Zack Polanksi: “what’s unrealistic is continuing with the status quo”

  • Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

  • TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

  • What is Elon Musk’s end game?

  • Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

  • Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

  • Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

  • If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

  • “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

  • Pandemic trauma as a driver of far-right radicalisation

  • Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

  • The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

  • You can’t ban the English Defence League because it doesn’t exist but you can force Telegram to shut down organising groups

  • The stagnation of the UK economy and living standards

  • The emerging system of eco-apartheid

  • The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

  • The lumpen-libertarian uprising

  • The fractal fascism taking shape around us

  • Taking back control: what happens when people realise they were lied to?

  • The media must take responsibility for recent far right attacks on left wing journalists

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