Communicative inversions, the turning of materiality on its head through rhetorical devices, form the propaganda infrastructure of the far right globally, shaping its communicative practices.i This communicative infrastructure, replete with disinformation that is strategically manufactured and reproduced by powerful political and economic interests, catalyses the global proliferation of the far-right, mainstreaming the far-right into political spaces and policy-making.ii Communication in other words lies at the core of the political imagination that is seeded and circulated by the far-right, shaping the processes through which a disenfranchising politics attacking the marginalised is turned into public policies targeting communities at the margins.iii
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