Dr Yannick Veilleux-LepageSymbols and Scripts: Firearms as Artefacts of Extremist Violence
Read moreOn 10 September 2025, in Orem, Utah, right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. Investigators later reported that…
Dr. Gerard GillMeaning Through Its Opposite: Significance Quest Theory and Nihilistic Violent Extremism
Read moreThis Insight examines groups under The Com umbrella (a catch-all name for 764 and related groups such as CVLT and…
Arthur Bradley“Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey
Read moreContent warning: This Insight contains mentions of suicide and terrorist violence. Introduction An assailant injured at least five people with…
Marc-André Argentino764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation
Read moreContent warning: this Insight contains references to child sexual exploitation and violence Introduction On 12 September 2023, the FBI made…
Allysa CzerwinskyLearning from the Leavers? The Promise (and Perils) of r/IncelExit
Read moreThis Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…
Daniel SiegelGeneration Doomer: How Nihilism on Social Media is Creating a New Generation of Extremists
Read moreIntroduction A report from Common Sense Media found that on average, pre-teens spend about five and a half hours in…
Sammie WicksNihilism and Mass Shooterism: Unclear Categories and Potential Dangers
Read moreIn 2022, public mass shootings continue to present a serious societal challenge in the US. This year has already experienced over…
Maeve ParkUnderstanding The Incel Experience Online
Read moreIncel, short for ‘involuntarily celibate’, is self-identification used exclusively by cis-gender, straight males who congregate exclusively in online spaces, and…
Simon PurdueIdeological Nihilism and Aesthetic Violence: Mass Shooters and Online Antisocial Subcultures
Read moreThe Highland Park shooter’s online footprint has seen a lot of scrutiny in the week since his attack, and rightly…
Dr. Michael LoadenthalInfrastructure, Sabotage, and Accelerationism
Read moreIn my previous GNET Insight, I focused on the ideological collision between anti-5G, the coronavirus, and the far-right. The present…
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