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Abstract
White Supremacist aesthetics are shifting in the twenty-first century as powerful new mythohistorical imaginaries are crystallized in bodily representations. It is worth paying attention to the embodied visages white supremacists are producing at this time, as they challenge, reinforce, and complicate images of whiteness in the contemporary. Using a digital ethnographic approach to track the circulation of new visages and reactionary discourses online can reveal the transnational implications of white supremacist bodily inscription. Paying close attention to discourses of contestation regarding the ‘meaning’ of Norse-themed tattoos and symbols on social media is particularly elucidating in regards to the transformations of historical meaning of ‘Norse’ symbols. My findings point to the construction of a neo-viking chronotope, not simply a costume which one takes on and off but a productive bodily refashioning which enables powerful new visions of what it means to be white in relation to an embodied history. These temporal reconfigurations taking place through bodily inscriptions in the form of tattoos can reveal the production of new mythohistories and political futures which certain white supremacist organizations have invested in, not only ideologically but corporeally. This process effectively reframes historical ‘fact’ and embodied historical relations through bodily inscription and presentation in the present.