Meme Culture as “Metapolitical” Strategy of the Transnational Alt Right

• In Event: The Right, Populism, and the Press

Brief Overview

The paper analyses the use of memes by the transnational Alt Right as part of its "metapolitical" strategy. It gives special attention to #Fashwave memes which show specific 1980s retro aesthetics and openly refer to NS symbols and fascism.

Author

• Karin Liebhart, University of Vienna