The Empire and the Barbarians Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of Extremism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Introduction The Enigma of Extremism 1
5. Getting Ready for the Dark Age s? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria and the Deplorable Ugliness of Decline 17
6. Are We All Extremists Now? 35
7. How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State An Animist Critique of Neo-Liberalism’s Ideology of ‘Extremism’ 52
8. The Empire and the Barbarians Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of Extremism 87
9. Suicide Bombing and Social Death 109
10. Retreat to the Future The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethnonationalist Extremism 129
11. Extremism as Immanence and Process The Trump Transmutation 148