A contextualising essay about my artwork Hate Library, which prompted the multi-authored volume, Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right, co-edited by Maik Feilitz and I, published by Transcript Verlag in 2019.
Details about the book and artwork can be found via the Related Entries links.
From the essay: "[H]ateful rhetoric and victimization methods, charged by the positive and negative effects of the growing importance of identity politics and its offshoots like call-out culture, seem to flood the expanding archives of images and text that far-right groups are creating via public peer-to-peer networks like social media feeds and web forums. There, the evidence of hate and dangerous speech is publicly available to readers everywhere, and “to make public”, from the Latin publicare, is the root meaning of ‘publish’. Yet in that same fluid digital sphere of publishing, those expressions and their effects do not seem to have become public knowledge in any strong sense of that phrase. How do we learn to see it, hear it, read it and so get to know it, so that we can do something about its base causes?"
