Kill All Normies

The culture wars of the 1990s have continued in the form of an online "culture war. " The alt-right is a range of movements from the once-obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to more mainstream manifestations such as Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. In Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 1960s libertinism and conservative movements. She makes the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.