THE SPEECH OF THE ATOMWAFFE DIVISION (DIVISÃO DE ARMAS NUCLEARES) ORGANIZATION UNDER THE APPROACH OF METALINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY

Abstract

Founded in 2013 by Brandon Clint Russell, the Nuclear Weapons Division is an accelerationist organization whose discourse is part of a neo-Nazi subculture. Each statement operates discursively through paramilitary aesthetics and racist indoctrination, reinterpreting hatred in a mission aimed at eliminating the other seen as a threat. The objective is to analyze three statements published on the organization's official page, in order to understand how they (re)produce, in discourse, evaluations and meanings that establish internal cohesion and subcultural belonging. The theoretical framework proposes an interdisciplinary dialogue between Metalinguistics and Brazilian Cultural Criminology, because the criminal phenomenon, in this proposal, is conceived as an act of language that is organized into genres of discourse that integrate the neo-Nazi terror subculture. The methodology is planned in the selection of one verbal and two visual statements with these criteria: 1) apology for Nazism/Fascism; 2) exaltation of paramilitarism; 3) historical relevance. The comprehensive results allow us to understand that, in choosing symbols such as the swastika, the uniform, National Socialism, the soldier, and the skull mask, the statements fulfill a social function: establishing internal cohesion and subcultural belonging among the organization's members, since they re-signify violence as a moral duty and the destruction of the other as a heroic mission. Observing this, within this universe of evaluations and meanings, the organization advocates and legitimizes the acceleration of civilizational collapse.