From post-truth to higher-truth. Humor, spiritual determinism, and the far-right online
- The text at hand draws on my undergraduate work in 2020 in which I looked at the usage of humor in internet culture and how it was used as a countercultural strategy by the far-right online movement known as the Alt-right to question established perceptions of reality. This essay argues that the rhetoric of the Alt-right of the mid-2010s prepared the ground for a media environment from which the ontologies of the proliferating conspiratorial movements could flourish in 2020.
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| Author: | Moritz Tontsch |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-cos4-13161 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.57684/COS-1316 |
| Series (Serial Number): | rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research (Volume 2,2) |
| Editor: | Lasse Scherffig, Carolin Höfler |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Release Date: | 2025/11/26 |
| Tag: | Humor; Internet; Ontology; Right-Wing Radicalism; Social Media |
| GND Keyword: | Ontologie; Rechtsradikalismus; Internet; Social Media; Humor |
| Volume: | Volume 2 (2025) |
| Article Number: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| Institutes and Central Facilities: | Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften (F02) / Fakultät 02 / Köln International School of Design |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 100 Philosophie und Psychologie / 100 Philosophie |
| Open Access: | Open Access |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
