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Nihilistic and Apocalyptic Violent Extremism: Symbolic Rupture and the Crisis of Meaning in the Digital Age
July 29, 2025By Mark Peden Troubling trends in violent extremism are emerging that challenge traditional frameworks of classification and ideology. Amid accelerating digital revolution, ongoing permacrisis, and increasingly apocalyptic media narratives, nihilistic and apocalyptic violent extremism (N/AVE) is on the rise, frequently driven by mixed, unclear, and unstable (MUU) belief systems that defy conventional categorisation. Beyond ideological ...
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Nazis at the salad bar: The National Workers’ Alliance and mixed, unclear, and unstable ideology
October 9, 2024By Gerard Gill Recent developments in violent extremism have included an uptick in the salience of mixed, unclear, and unstable (MUU) or ‘salad bar’ ideologies. These are worldviews where numerous, sometimes disparate perspectives combine in a dynamic and evolving manner, resulting in a belief system that is hard to comprehensively define. A growth in MUU ...
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Nazis en el bar de ensaladas: La Alianza Nacional de Trabajadores y la ideología mixta, confusa e inestable
October 9, 2024De Gerard Gill La evolución reciente del extremismo violentismo ha incluido un aumento de la prominencia de las ideologías mixtas, confusas e inestables (MCE) o ideologías ‘bar de ensaladas’. Estos son visiones del mundo en las que numerosas perspectivas, a veces dispares, se combinan de forma dinámica y evolutiva, dando lugar a un sistema de ...