Nicastro’s contribution explores how contemporary wellness culture—focused on food, fitness, and self-optimization—intersects with far-right ideologies. Drawing on Klaus Theweleit, it argues that bodily practices become sites where anxieties about purity, control, and identity are embodied. Through the case of the movie Soldiers of Lights (2025), it shows how influencer culture and alternative health movements can subtly normalize extremist worldviews within everyday regimes of self-care.
Clio Nicastro (Thu,) studied this question.