Abstract
Abstract This article sketches fascism’s ideological morphology under a post-fascist condition. It builds empirically on three years of ethnographic studies of the radical-nationalist podcast Motgift [Antidote], disclosing that (i) fascist multivocality characterizes and feeds the rhizomic structure of Swedish radical nationalism; (ii) fascist narration locates protagonists and antagonists in driving a plot of ‘genocide against the white race’; and (iii) fascist temporality reinforces ideas of a lost past and degenerated present – prompting a struggle for cultural rebirth and racial revival. The multivocality, narration, and temporality of Motgift illuminate the radical-nationalist politics at work under a post-fascist condition: the state of ideological reconfiguration pondering fascism’s historical downfall.
Highlights
In popular discourse, the term fascism is commonly used as a designation for authoritarian rule or as a pejorative accusation of political
As we have argued elsewhere, Swedish radical nationalism contains three currents that in various historical moments run parallel, intersect, merge, and diverge.[17]
In the podcast Motgift, a central forum for Swedish radical nationalism in the late 2010s, fascist ideology was summoned to infuse the present struggle for future revival
Summary
Our analysis was inspired by recent developments in digital anthropology, and refined into a method we call ‘podcast ethnography’. 26 Richard Berry, ‘Part of the Establishment: Reflecting on 10 Years of Podcasting as an Audio Medium,’ Convergence 22 (2016): 661–671; Sally Carlton, ‘Producing Human Rights Memory: speakers (hosts) give voice to secondary speakers (guests, listeners). The central position of Motgift during these years – as a leading forum for discussing Swedish radical nationalism across organizational boundaries – empirically motivates an analysis of its relation to the ideological morphology of fascism
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