Issue #83 The Language of the New Brutality

The Language of the New Brutality

Nina Power

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German keyboards from the Nazi regime included the "SS" logo, seen here atop the number five key. 

Issue #83
June 2017










Notes
1

Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI—Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook, trans. Martin Brady (London: Bloomsbury, 2013 (1957)), 10.

2

Ibid., 11, 15.

3

Ibid., 22.

4

Ibid., 74.

5

Ibid., 20.

6

Jason Wilson, “Hiding in Plain Sight: How the ‘Alt-Right’ is Weaponising Irony to Spread Fascism,” The Guardian, May 23, 2017 .

7

Angela Nagle, “What the Alt-Right is all about,” Irish Times, Jan 6, 2017 .

8

See .

9

Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich, 28.

10

Ibid., 29.

11

Ibid., 38.

12

Ibid., 39–40.

13

Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History, trans. Stephen Conway in collaboration with Erica Carter and Chris Turner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987 (1977)), 89.

14

Angela Nagle, quoted in Wilson, “Hiding in Plain Sight.”

15

Luke Winkie, “I was a teenage 4chan troll—until I learned to change my ways,” Daily Dot, August 26, 2015 .

16

Theweleit, Male Fantasies, 90.

17

Jason Wilson, “Suspect in Portland double murder posted white supremacist material online,” The Guardian, May 28, 2017 .

18

Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head: Capital Visions, trans. Jody Gladding (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 4.

19

Nick Hopkins, “Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence,” The Guardian, May 21, 2017 .

20

“German magazine defends cover showing Trump beheading Statue of Liberty,” Reuters, February 5, 2017 .

21

Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich, 147.

22

Ibid., 74.

23

“Violence in News and Current Affairs: Summary and Guidance in Full,” bbc.co.uk .