Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris

Johansen, Mikkel Bækby

doi:10.1080/14797585.2023.2250108

Journal for Cultural Research

2023

DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2023.2250108

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Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris

Mikkel Bækby Johansen

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Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies

Johansen

2024

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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This essay addresses some of the key terminological conflicts of the ongoing culture war between “wokes” and “anti-wokes” in many Western societies. In a public debate culture where words and labels are rapidly contaminated when appropriated by the “other side,” it is increasingly difficult to make sense of the key positions and battle lines to decode who is battling whom. The “culture war matrix” serves as a heuristic tool to contain some of the central culture war positions in an otherwise fragmented space of mediated discourse. Two intersecting tensions are suggested between woke and anti-woke and between cancel culture and free speech. While this two-dimensional understanding by no means exhausts the complex positionings in the culture war landscape, it represents an alternative to the one-dimensional dichotomy-thinking, which reduces the struggle to a matter of left versus right. In conclusion, a third way of understanding contemporary culture wars is suggested by focusing on heterodox impulses and alternative sources of intellectual authority.

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Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies

Johansen

2024

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris

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Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies

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