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The transnational and digital metapolitics of the New Right 
Convenor:
Fabian Schäfer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
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Discussant:
Naoto Higuchi (Waseda University)
Format:
Panel
Section:
Media Studies
:
Auditorium 2 Franz Cumont
Sessions:
Friday 18 August, -
Time zone: Europe/Brussels

Short Abstract:

This panel looks into the transnational aspects and uses of digital media in the metapolitics of the New Right. Specifically, we address the role of pro-Russian Propaganda, disinformation and COVID-19, “Japan” as a cryptofascist chiffre, and the post-assassination framing of the Unification Church.

Long Abstract:

Through multidisciplinary case studies from Japan and Germany, the contributors to this panel look into various transnational and digital aspects of what the international New Right describes as “metapolitics”: the dissemination of extremist ideas in the “pre-political” sphere of culture, before entering the political public sphere. Since then, this strategy has been applied globally by proponents of various local versions of the New Right, not only in Europe but also in Japan.

The single contributions look into transnational trajectories and digital connectivities of metapolitics among the New Right in Japan and Germany. In particular, they analyze the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy narratives by popular manga author Kobayashi Yoshinori and situate these within his long-term historical revisionist writing and the global anti-COVID-19 measurement movement, the discursive interconnections between pro-Russian propaganda and nationalist discourses of the New Right in Japan since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the conspiracist narratives and metapolitical appropriations regarding the role and influence of the Unification Church in Japan, and the cryptofascist use of “Japan” as part of the metapolitical discursive strategy of the New Right in Germany.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 18 August, 2023, -
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