Here’s the argument: THE STATE is reliant on TECH, which is driven by PROFIT, which is extracted through ATTENTION, which is achieved through CONFLICT.
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Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.
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Thus, I find a multimodal relationship between realist and idealist political cognition in this particular kind of far right community.
When comparing the political discourse of users with realist avatars (faces), I find they disproportionately frame politics in terms of identity, whereas users with more symbolic content (flags) frame politics in terms of ideology.
NEW PAPER DROP: I used a vision transformer (ViT) and PCA to analyze avatar content from the white nationalist web forum, Stormfront.
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The moral politics of affirming the cycle, negating the cycle, and transcending the cycle.
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Why are many of today’s most strident male defenders of Western civilization married to Asian women?
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gerontocrats
Shitting on Ezra Klein
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The chapter I contributed on the far right to in the new report Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is available totally Open Access below. Let me know what you think!
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have any sociologists taken Hayek's later writings serious or know of someone that has?
doh forgot to tag @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social! Complete conversation (pod ep + transcript) are here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
More relevant than ever.
anyone else at #ASA2025?
isn't this what literally every MAGA dipshit is saying too?
yeah, but the question isn't really about criminality (law alignment) but the other part of your point—if not the law, then what? this is what I feel like people often fail to discuss clearly. everyone agrees there's some moral fabric outside the law. its core to the MAGA movement
The war tore apart the intellectual community of sociologists that had been developing around the North Atlantic. Some, like Hobhouse, were horrified by the fighting; others became belligerent. Durkheim and Giddings became vehement anti-German propagandists
Our Vice President misinterpreted a social scientist and, as a result, converted to Catholicism.
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For a while now I’ve been tracing this thread of general conservative skepticism toward the written word.
A weird obsession, I know…
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This week's digest shares the work of @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social and @j-farrell.bsky.social, urging a closer look at conservative thought in relation to the natural environment and the theoretical underpinnings of its connection to nature.
What is up with RFK and everyone talking about a "healthy" society?
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im just on here because twitter is down
yeah, he's an Italian Communist
why is everyone on Bluesky talking about this Rufo interview today like 3 days after it came out?
*every Nazi comes from a long line of Italian Communists
hearing that Rufo comes from a long line of Italian Communists explains everything imo. the psychological inability to deal with disorder and God-complex to strive everyday to re-order society under your personal vision is lame AF
