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the influence of Tumblr

[...] You may question the motivations of the right's fixation on these relative niche subcultures, but the liberal fixation on relatively niche sections of the new online right that emerged from small online subcultures is similar in scale--that is, the influence of Tumblr on shaping strange new p…

—p.73 Chapter Five: From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue (68) by Angela Nagle
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Herbert Marcuse on revolution

New Left thinker Herbert Marcuse meanwhile raised the question of 'whether it is possible to conceive of revolution when there is no vital need for it'. The need for revolution, he explained, 'is something quite different from a vital need for better working conditions, a better income, more libert…

—p.61 Chapter Four: Conservative culture wars from Buchanan to Yiannopoulos (54) by Angela Nagle
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apotheosis

a liberal preference for 'recognition of diversity over economic inequality' reached its most absurd apotheosis with a politics based on the minutia and gradations of rapidly proliferating identities

I think minutia is [sic] but, unsure

—p.69 Chapter Five: From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue (68) by Angela Nagle
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