Pessimism and the Alt-Right: Knowledge, Power, Race and Time

TY - CHAP

T1 - Pessimism and the Alt-Right

T2 - Knowledge, Power, Race and Time

AU - Michelsen, Nicholas

AU - de Orellana, Pablo Gaston

PY - 2019/9/13

Y1 - 2019/9/13

N2 - The Alt-Right views modernity as dominated by a Liberal dogma invested in the destruction of birth-culture identities for the benefit of conspiratorial elites. They advocate a “return” to birth-culture as the core category of politics so as to resolve economic and social problems. This program contains the deeply pessimistic expectation of unavoidable identitarian or racial war. The Alt-Right embrace this apocalyptic vision in the solutions they propose, which either seek to accelerate descent into a final and decisive racial confrontation, or side-step it by accelerating into what they regard as the inevitable collapse of liberal democracy and its norms. This is then, ultimately, a pessimistic vision of humanity itself, which is reduced to a racial and economic expression of biological survival. The Alt-Right embraces total rupture because such as an exit from contemporary politics would permit the return of biologically-determined survivalism as the dominant and ultimate form of justice.

AB - The Alt-Right views modernity as dominated by a Liberal dogma invested in the destruction of birth-culture identities for the benefit of conspiratorial elites. They advocate a “return” to birth-culture as the core category of politics so as to resolve economic and social problems. This program contains the deeply pessimistic expectation of unavoidable identitarian or racial war. The Alt-Right embrace this apocalyptic vision in the solutions they propose, which either seek to accelerate descent into a final and decisive racial confrontation, or side-step it by accelerating into what they regard as the inevitable collapse of liberal democracy and its norms. This is then, ultimately, a pessimistic vision of humanity itself, which is reduced to a racial and economic expression of biological survival. The Alt-Right embraces total rupture because such as an exit from contemporary politics would permit the return of biologically-determined survivalism as the dominant and ultimate form of justice.

M3 - Chapter

BT - Pessimism in International Relations

A2 - Stevens, Tim

A2 - Michelsen, Nicholas

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -