Les agitateurs de la toile

Abstract

Après avoir distingué les « droites extrêmes » des « extrêmes droites », l’article analyse la fascisation des espaces publics et fait le point sur les diverses manifestations de ces tendances en ligne au cours de la dernière décennie, évoquant les modes de mobilisation du réseau Internet par différents mouvements (Tea Party, Manif pour tous, Pegida, etc.). Dans un second temps sont dégagés les principaux traits des « droites extrêmes » à travers les tendances à la fabrication de l’« autre », la personnalisation des malaises sociaux, la « dépluralisation » du monde, le « déni de réalité » et l’« adresse autoritaire ».

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“…Our thinking about social conservatism should be supplemented by the analysis of the always present phantasmatic dimension of this phenomenon. 18 The concept of "phantasm" appeared as a result of the translation of Freud's term Fantasie into French. The French word fantaisie was not considered appropriate by Freud's translator-as it has a meaning of something light, childish, playful, while Freud meant much darker and grim aspects of human imagination: the fantasy of killing your father, etc.…”

“…To a certain extent one can say that social reality is equal to these symbolic representations, at least we often take these representations for granted (not noticing that our representations are, using Lacanian concept, "notall," that there is something else, some unrepresented element behind them). So, this social reality ("the Big Other," if we use Lacanian terminology) is a symbolic construction, we can even call it a fiction in the sense that it exists as long as there are 18 On the concept in clinical context, see Bruce Fink, "Fantasies and the Fundamental Fantasy: An Introduction," in Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key, ed. Bruce Fink (London: Routledge, 2014): 39-52.…”

“…That Dugin was already so enamored of Ionescu the same year he published Geopolitics and the year after he published Metaphysics of the Gospel: Orthodox Esotericism is especially interesting. Certainly, there is more than one possible explanation for Dugin's familiarity with Ionescu, but the simplest and most likely is that Mutti-who does speak Romanian and published his own Italian translation of Ionescu's Legionary Phenomenon the following year (1998) 18 shared that translation with his "dear friend" Dugin before publication. Dugin, who speaks Italian, could have read Mutti's translation.…”

The study of the far right and its three E’s: why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism

“…Very few studies, however, applied these insights beyond the realm of political parties, by comparing different subtypes of far-right actors engaging in elections and in the streets (Castelli Gattinara 2017;Froio 2018). While some studies looked at the social characteristics of movement activists and the profiles of far-right protesters and online publics in France (Dechezelles 2009;Bouron 2015;Gimenez and Voirol 2017), we still know very little about these aspects in an international comparative perspective (see e.g. Klandermans and Mayer 2006;Miller-Idriss 2017;Spierings et al 2015).…”

The Spanish and French Far Rights in Their Quest for a New Traditionalist Order

“…Thus, conservatives disguise themselves under a rebellious varnish to claim they are victims of injustice, a discourse commonly associated with reactionary conspiratorial narratives. 18 Conservatives also, as claimed by Louie Dean Valencia-García, weaponize history. Presenting facts in a distorted manner to assert their authority, they go so far as rewriting history and making up the past to legitimize their ideology.…”