Description:
Manifesting Violence offers a chilling investigation into how white supremacist ideologies thrive in digital spaces, transforming memes, manifestos, and online humor into tools of radicalization. Through incisive rhetorical analysis, Kelly and Sipe expose the decentralized nature of modern extremism and the persuasive tactics that normalize hate and incite violence. This timely volume is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the digital roots of contemporary white terrorism.
Review Quotes: "Manifesting Violence is a fascinating and provocative book. Fortunately, the authors clearly demonstrate their expertise and their ability to bring light to subject matter that too often produces only heat." --Ryan Skinnell, coeditor of Rhetoric and Guns
"Kelly and Sipe's incisive account of far-right 'white replacement' rhetoric traces terrorist manifestos' jeremiadic and memetic qualities to chilling effect. Essential reading for the digital age, this volume explains how white supremacy normalizes fantasies of racial retribution, merges pseudoscience with environmentalism, spreads through "copypasta," and anticipates future cycles of violence."--Atilla Hallsby, author of "A Copious Void: Rhetoric as Artificial Intelligence 1.0," Rhetoric Society Quarterly. (Open Access)