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Nagle's book ''Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right'' discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the ] and ] movements.<ref name=Vox2017/><ref name="macdougald">{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/angela-nagles-kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-and-4chan.html|title=The Unflattering Familiarity of the Alt-Right in Angela Nagle's ''Kill All Normies''|last=MacDougald|first=Park|work=]|date=2017-07-13|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.today/2021.07.09-221103/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/angela-nagles-kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-and-4chan.html|archive-date=2021-07-09}}</ref><ref name="gais"/> She describes the alt-right as a counterculture of young men who reject taboos on race and gender.<ref name=Vox2017/> While many young people in the alt-right started simply as trolls, she says the movement has developed into something much more serious.<ref name=Vox2017/> While she supports identity politics in general, she says that some on the left have contributed to the rise of the alt-right with their "performative wokeness", which often involves censoring people and ganging up on them.<ref name=Vox2017/> Nagle's book ''Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right'' discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the ] and ] movements.<ref name=Vox2017/><ref name="macdougald">{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/angela-nagles-kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-and-4chan.html|title=The Unflattering Familiarity of the Alt-Right in Angela Nagle's ''Kill All Normies''|last=MacDougald|first=Park|work=]|date=2017-07-13|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.today/2021.07.09-221103/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/angela-nagles-kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-and-4chan.html|archive-date=2021-07-09}}</ref><ref name="gais"/> She describes the alt-right as a counterculture of young men who reject taboos on race and gender.<ref name=Vox2017/> While many young people in the alt-right started simply as trolls, she says the movement has developed into something much more serious.<ref name=Vox2017/> While she supports identity politics in general, she says that some on the left have contributed to the rise of the alt-right with their "performative wokeness", which often involves censoring people and ganging up on them.<ref name=Vox2017/>


The book received many positive reviews, and Nagle became a welcome commentator on the topic of online culture wars.<ref name=Beast2018/> Columnist ] of '']'' praised Nagle's "portrait of the online cultural war".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/opinion/15columnists.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=D097E9A27C87DB2D4E99EF821C9B389C&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion|title=Opinion {{!}} Columnists' Book Club|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Another ''New York Times'' contributor, ], wrote that ''Kill All Normies'' had "captured this phenomenon".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/intellectual-dark-web-red-pilled.html|title=Opinion {{!}} How the Online Left Fuels the Right|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Novelist ] listed ''Kill All Normies'' as one of his ten favorite books.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/george-saunderss-10-favorite-books.html|title=George Saunders's 10 Favorite Books|last=Saunders|first=George|work=Vulture|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Fusion Networks' TV documentary ] directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on the Nagle's book.<ref name=IMDb>{{Cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8078092/|title=Trumpland: Kill All Normies|work=]|access-date=2020-12-01|language=en}}</ref> The book received many positive reviews, and Nagle became a welcome commentator on the topic of online culture wars.<ref name=Beast2018/> Columnist ] of '']'' praised Nagle's "portrait of the online cultural war".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/opinion/15columnists.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=D097E9A27C87DB2D4E99EF821C9B389C&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion|title=Opinion {{!}} Columnists' Book Club|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Another ''New York Times'' contributor, ], wrote that ''Kill All Normies'' had "captured this phenomenon".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/intellectual-dark-web-red-pilled.html|title=Opinion {{!}} How the Online Left Fuels the Right|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Novelist ] listed ''Kill All Normies'' as one of his ten favorite books.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/george-saunderss-10-favorite-books.html|title=George Saunders's 10 Favorite Books|last=Saunders|first=George|work=Vulture|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Fusion Networks' TV documentary ] directed by ] was based on the Nagle's book.<ref name=IMDb>{{Cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8078092/|title=Trumpland: Kill All Normies|work=]|access-date=2020-12-01|language=en}}</ref>


In May 2018, '']'' accused Nagle of "sloppy sourcing", including not citing sources and drawing heavily from ] and ].<ref name=Beast2018>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/kill-all-citations-sloppy-sourcing-plagues-kill-all-normies-book-on-sjws-and-the-alt-right|title=Sloppy Sourcing Plagues 'Kill All Normies' Alt-Right Book|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=2018-05-20|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Nagle and her publisher both issued detailed statements rebutting the accusations, and ''The Daily Beast'' adjusted some of the article's wording.<ref name=Beast2018/> In May 2018, '']'' accused Nagle of "sloppy sourcing", including not citing sources and drawing heavily from ] and ].<ref name=Beast2018>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/kill-all-citations-sloppy-sourcing-plagues-kill-all-normies-book-on-sjws-and-the-alt-right|title=Sloppy Sourcing Plagues 'Kill All Normies' Alt-Right Book|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=2018-05-20|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en}}</ref> Nagle and her publisher both issued detailed statements rebutting the accusations, and ''The Daily Beast'' adjusted some of the article's wording.<ref name=Beast2018/>
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In November 2018, '']'' published Nagle's essay ”The Left Case against ].”<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ | title=The Left Case against Open Borders| date=2018-11-20}}</ref> In November 2018, '']'' published Nagle's essay ”The Left Case against ].”<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ | title=The Left Case against Open Borders| date=2018-11-20}}</ref>


Writing in '']'', ] referred to the “ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/yellow-vest-protests-france-paris-gilets-jaunes-macron-fuel-tax-minimum-wage-populism-a8686586.html | title=The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won't change French politics| date=2018-12-17}}</ref> '']'' responded with a critical essay, calling it "just one of the volley of pieces by liberals and people to the left of center who have derided the out-of-touch utopianism of open-borders advocates."<ref name=Nation2018>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/open-borders-nationalism-angela-nagle/|title=There Is No Left Case for Nationalism|last=Abrahamian|first=Atossa Araxia|date=2018-11-28|work=The Nation|access-date=2019-01-10|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref> Author ] identifies former Harvard president ], author ], and former secretary of state ] as others promoting similar views.<ref name=Nation2018/> '']'' responded with a critical essay, calling it "just one of the volley of pieces by liberals and people to the left of center who have derided the out-of-touch utopianism of open-borders advocates."<ref name=Nation2018>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/open-borders-nationalism-angela-nagle/|title=There Is No Left Case for Nationalism|last=Abrahamian|first=Atossa Araxia|date=2018-11-28|work=The Nation|access-date=2019-01-10|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref> Author ] identifies former Harvard president ], author ], and former secretary of state ] as others promoting similar views.<ref name=Nation2018/>


Writing in '']'', Slovenian philosopher and academic ] commented on the “ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/yellow-vest-protests-france-paris-gilets-jaunes-macron-fuel-tax-minimum-wage-populism-a8686586.html | title=The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won't change French politics| date=2018-12-17}}</ref> American cultural theorist and author ] described Nagle as "one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Liu|first=Catherine|date=July 30, 2017|title=Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry|url=https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/dialectic-of-dark-enlightenments-the-alt-rights-place-in-the-culture-industry/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-14|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref>
== Praise for Angela Nagle ==
Slovenian philosopher and academic ] has praised Nagle's commentary, <nowiki>''</nowiki>Nobody is spared in Nagle’s razor-sharp critical probing: while she brings out the shared presuppositions and hidden complicity of the two reactions, she also clearly demonstrates how these reactions are grounded in the weakness of the liberal-democratic consensus itself'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angela Nagle Substack About|url=https://angelanagle.substack.com/about|url-status=live}}</ref> American author ] described her book ] as having taught him 'more about recent political events in a single rich evening of reading than I’ve learned in this entire last and very unpleasant year of obsessively monitoring cable TV, and confirmed for me something I’ve been feeling for a while now, namely that social media is a toxin we are gleefully and cluelessly injecting into ourselves, even as we ask, “Why are we getting so mean and stupid?'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amazon page for Kill All Normies|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-All-Normies-culture-alt-right/dp/1785355430|url-status=live}}</ref> American cultural theorist and author Catherine Liu described Nagle as 'one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity.'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Liverpool Biennial, Public Event Page|url=https://www.biennial.com/events/angela-nagle-reclaiming-beauty-as-a-public-good|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==

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Irish writer and academic
Angela Nagle
Nagle in 2017Nagle in 2017
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Texas, U.S.
Alma materDublin City University
GenreNon-Fiction
Notable worksKill All Normies

Angela Nagle (born 1984) is an academic and non-fiction writer who has written for The Baffler, Jacobin, and others. She is the author of the book Kill All Normies, published by Zero Books in 2017, which discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements. Nagle describes the alt-right as a dangerous movement, but she also criticizes aspects of the left that have, she says, contributed to the alt-right's rise. Since 2021, she has been publishing articles on a wide range of personal, political and cultural topics via the online publishing platform Substack.

Life

Nagle was born in Houston, Texas of Irish parents, then grew up in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Dublin City University with a PhD for a thesis titled 'An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements'.

The alt-right and the culture wars

Nagle's book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right discusses the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements. She describes the alt-right as a counterculture of young men who reject taboos on race and gender. While many young people in the alt-right started simply as trolls, she says the movement has developed into something much more serious. While she supports identity politics in general, she says that some on the left have contributed to the rise of the alt-right with their "performative wokeness", which often involves censoring people and ganging up on them.

The book received many positive reviews, and Nagle became a welcome commentator on the topic of online culture wars. Columnist Ross Douthat of The New York Times praised Nagle's "portrait of the online cultural war". Another New York Times contributor, Michelle Goldberg, wrote that Kill All Normies had "captured this phenomenon". Novelist George Saunders listed Kill All Normies as one of his ten favorite books. Fusion Networks' TV documentary Trumpland: Kill All Normies directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on the Nagle's book.

In May 2018, The Daily Beast accused Nagle of "sloppy sourcing", including not citing sources and drawing heavily from Misplaced Pages and RationalWiki. Nagle and her publisher both issued detailed statements rebutting the accusations, and The Daily Beast adjusted some of the article's wording.

Open borders

In November 2018, American Affairs published Nagle's essay ”The Left Case against Open Borders.”

The Nation responded with a critical essay, calling it "just one of the volley of pieces by liberals and people to the left of center who have derided the out-of-touch utopianism of open-borders advocates." Author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian identifies former Harvard president Larry Summers, author John Judis, and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton as others promoting similar views.

Writing in The Independent, Slovenian philosopher and academic Slavoj Žižek commented on the “ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay." American cultural theorist and author Catherine Liu described Nagle as "one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity"

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Angela Nagle". www.transcript-verlag.de. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  2. ^ Nagle, Angela (2017-08-12). "The roots of the alt-right". Vox (Interview). Interviewed by Illing, Sean. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. "Angela Nagle". The Baffler. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  4. "Angela Nagle". www.jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  5. ^ Gais, Hannah (2017-07-06). "What the Alt-Right Learned from the Left". The New Republic. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  6. Liu, Catherine (2017-07-30). "Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right's Place in the Culture Industry". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  7. ^ MacDougald, Park (2017-07-13). "The Unflattering Familiarity of the Alt-Right in Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies". New York. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  8. "Substack/About page".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Angela, Nagle (November 2015). "An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements". doras.dcu.ie. Archived from the original on 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  10. ^ Davis, Charles (2018-05-20). "Sloppy Sourcing Plagues 'Kill All Normies' Alt-Right Book". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  11. "Opinion | Columnists' Book Club". Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  12. "Opinion | How the Online Left Fuels the Right". Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  13. Saunders, George. "George Saunders's 10 Favorite Books". Vulture. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  14. "Trumpland: Kill All Normies". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  15. "The Left Case against Open Borders". 2018-11-20.
  16. ^ Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia (2018-11-28). "There Is No Left Case for Nationalism". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  17. "The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won't change French politics". 2018-12-17.
  18. Liu, Catherine (July 30, 2017). "Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right's Place in the Culture Industry". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-12-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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