{"product_id":"disaster-nationalism-isbn-9781804294253","title":"Disaster Nationalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eLiberal civilisation is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair, fear, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics, dissecting its roots, its influencers, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Class: Not the Economy, Stupid\u003cbr\u003e2. Disasters: Knowing Too Much\u003cbr\u003e3. Sex: Pornonationalism against Marxism (Making Capitalism Sexy Again)\u003cbr\u003e4. War Machines: Cyberwar, Lone Wolves and Mass Shooters\u003cbr\u003e5. The Armed Shitstorm: Murderous Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e6. Genocide: Shrouded in Darkness\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Dark Climate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Ambitious, insightful and contentious ... Seymour aims to provoke the reader – not least through the force of his rhetoric – into thinking about what might be round the corner.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Trilling, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the UK's foremost thinkers on the politics of climate breakdown and nature loss ... [Seymour] effortlessly joins the dots between environmental collapse, the rise of the far right and the role our desires play in a crumbling world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Maya Goodfellow, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What thinker would you bring to an earth on fire? You would not want to leave Richard Seymour at home: he is essential company for an age of compound catastrophes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andreas Malm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most consistently brilliant and lyrical thinkers writing today\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—China Miéville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style. Everything he writes is worth reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gary Younge, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Day in the Death of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book we all needed. \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than the definitive reckoning with the globally ascendant vitality of today's nationalisms, where Seymour recognises these rejuvenated nationalisms as an explosive web of destructive and futile passions. This is a nationalism spanning so many different global contexts that resolves precious little but animates collective desire in dangerously seductive ways. For the Left to recover a 21st century thesis requires accordingly a resolute confrontation with this cacophonous nationalism, a nationalism that Seymour has mapped with such vivid and audacious verve.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sivamohan Valluvan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Clamour of Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Seymour is one of the finest thinkers working today. In \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e he helps us re-see the psychosocial hallmarks of our contemporary political moment, offering the analysis we need now of new global fantasies of \"violent restoration.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, \u003ci\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With astonishing global reach, and attention to simultaneous, interrelated degradations of information and climate ecologies and liberal-capitalist governance, \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive and insightful examination of the ascendancy of far-right politics across the contemporary world to date. A civically 'thick', politically capable fascist project may as yet be on hold, Seymour tells us, but its dark tribunes increasingly thrive in the interstices of our fragmented mediascape and apocalyptic social and planetary horizons. 'Incipient, or inchoate fascism,' Seymour writes, is here. Even when the center holds, the drab, unkept promise of the electoral cycle is unlikely to defuse its convulsive appeal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nikhil Pal Singh, author of \u003ci\u003eRace and America’s Long War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thrilling, clinical, and profound—a necessary account of the stupefying rise, and grotesque fantasies, of the new apocalyptic right. There is no better guide to this hellish ideological landscape or the social dysfunction which gave rise to it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Wallace-Wells, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e describes with exemplary intellectual resourcefulness and precision the explosions of demonic energies around the world. Though rigorously political in its diagnosis of a global psychic disorder, it refuses to sacrifice lucidity to feel-good hope. Rather, it invites its readers to a deeper reckoning with the self than any account of our volatile era.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Pankaj Mishra, author of \u003ci\u003eAge of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frighteningly timely. Seymour pushes us to see how the authoritarians of our time play not only on our fears but also on our passions. Urgent reading for everyone dreaming of a world beyond fascism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gargi Bhattacharya, author of \u003ci\u003eWe, the Heartbroken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly psychoanalytic and rigorous, Richard Seymour's \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial intervention into discourse on contemporary forces of reaction. Seymour forces us to think beyond tired narratives accounting for the far right's appeal. \u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e is dazzling, if devastating, further proof that Seymour is an intellectual force invaluable to leftist thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Natasha Lennard, author \u003ci\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisaster Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling, terrifying and extremely thorough account of the global rise of the far-right. With characteristic acuity, Seymour explores the psychological appeal of the messages of chaos, violence and destruction conveyed by far-right political movements, and how these visions both draw on and break with traditional fascist narratives, without ever posing a threat to capital accumulation. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand - and combat - the rise of the far-right.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Grace Blakeley, author of \u003ci\u003eVulture Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful repudiation ... and a passionate call for an urgent change of course.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ian Hughes, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An incredibly important and impressive work. Perhaps its most important lesson is that none of us are inherently immune from the seductive call of fascism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brendan Montague, \u003ci\u003eThe Ecologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As compelling as it is troubling ... Seymour is highly original in his attention to new geographies of the radical right.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Luke de Noronha, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this original and richly argued book, Seymour takes the reader into the dark and disturbing political and psychological underworld of apocalyptic right-wing nationalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—G. John Ikenberry, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This dark journey is not for the faint-hearted, but it offers essential reading for those hoping to understand and prevent the rise of the far right.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rob Norman, \u003ci\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including \u003ci\u003eCorbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Twittering Machine\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing appears in the \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at \u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304216088805,"sku":"NP9781804294253","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294253.jpg?v=1767725176","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/disaster-nationalism-isbn-9781804294253","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}