The Rise of Accelerationism and the Emotive Temporality of Contemporary Neo-Nazism

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Abstract

This chapter surveys aspects of the early neo-Nazi accelerationist movement in the 2010s, focusing on Iron March, National Action, Atomwaffen Division and the writings of James Mason, using accelerationist-related texts located in the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ) online archive hosted by International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College, London.4 It focuses on how these texts are underpinned by fascist temporalities and also uses approaches from the history of emotions to help parse the ideas underpinning neo-Nazi accelerationism, to consider what these discourses may be ‘doing’ for their readership. It shows that the neo-Nazi accelerationist movement, while ostensibly new, in many ways typifies a longer trend in fascism to develop a politics founded on a radicalised sense of time. It also shows how adherents of neo-Nazi accelerationism have talked about the past in emotive ways, creating affective discourses framed around talking about, and sometimes enacting, political activism that offers meaning and purpose in the present via the evocation of an alternate future.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFascism, the Radical Right and the Myth of Conspiracy
PublisherCentral European University Press
Number of pages22
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 30 Sept 2024

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