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Angela Nagle
Alma materDublin City University
GenreNon-Fiction
Notable worksKill All Normies

Angela Nagle is a non-fiction writer who has written for The Baffler,[1] Jacobin,[2] 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.[3][4][5][6][7]

In November 2018, Nagle stirred up controversy with her polemic ”The Left Case against Open Borders”, published in American Affairs. [8]Writing in The Independent, Slavoj Zizek referred to the “ferocious attacks on Angela Nagle for her outstanding essay ..." [9]. Tucker Carlson called it "the most interesting piece in the last six months".[10]

Life

Nagle graduated from Dublin City University with a PhD for a thesis entitled 'An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements'.[11]

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.[12][13][14] An episode of the Fusion Networks' TV series Trumpland directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on Nagle's Kill All Normies. A Spanish edition of Nagle's book was published in May, 2018 by Orciny Press.

In May 2018 The Daily Beast accused Nagle of "sloppy sourcing".[15] Nagle and her publisher both issued detailed statements refuting the accusations.

Columnist Ross Douthat of the New York Times praised Nagle's "portrait of the online cultural war".[16] The New York Times Michelle Goldberg said that Kill All Normies had "captured this phenomenon".[17] Novelist George Saunders listed Kill All Normies as one of his ten favorite books.[18]

Publications

  • Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right. Alresford, UK: Zero Books. 2017. ISBN 978-1-78-535543-1.

References

  1. ^ "Angela Nagle". The Baffler. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ^ "Angela Nagle". www.jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. ^ Bown, Alfie (2018-03-12). "How video games are fuelling the rise of the far right". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-14. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "What the Alt-Right Learned from the Left". The New Republic. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  5. ^ "Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right's Place in the Culture Industry - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  6. ^ MacDougald, Park. "Where Did the Alt-Right Come From? This Book Finds Some Uncomfortable Answers". Select All. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  7. ^ "The roots of the alt-right". Vox. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  8. ^ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/
  9. ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/yellow-vest-protests-france-paris-gilets-jaunes-macron-fuel-tax-minimum-wage-populism-a8686586.html
  10. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8oBlHbjyg
  11. ^ Angela, Nagle, (November 2015). "An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements". doras.dcu.ie. Retrieved 2018-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ MacDougald, Park. "Where Did the Alt-Right Come From? This Book Finds Some Uncomfortable Answers". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  13. ^ "What the Alt-Right Learned from the Left". The New Republic. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  14. ^ "The roots of the alt-right". Vox. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  15. ^ Davis, Charles (2018-05-20). "Sloppy Sourcing Plagues 'Kill All Normies' Alt-Right Book". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  16. ^ "Opinion | Columnists' Book Club". Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  17. ^ "Opinion | How the Online Left Fuels the Right". Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  18. ^ Saunders, George. "George Saunders's 10 Favorite Books". Vulture. Retrieved 2018-11-28.

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