User:Pleun/insp/transgression

Online Culture Wars

Mapping out the online culture wars, with the help of:

HAVE READ/WATCHED:

• The book Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
• The Red Pill Documentary
• Aesthetics of Fascism, a talk by Nina Powers

NEED TO READ/WATCH:

• Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies Volume 2, Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
• Victor Klemperer – Language of the Third Reich – LTI – lingua-tertii-imperii
• The authoritarian personality (1950) – Theodor W Adorno

Notes:

• While attempting to describe these groups, I notice the left-wing/feminist side has less specific groups/names. Plus a lot of names, like SJW, are coined by the "enemy".
• If I create a dictionary and follow word origin and scrape its history online, could that give clues on how the ideology is shaped?
• Is it possible to scrape a few forums and check when unknown words are created? Therefore following directly when, where and how the ideology is shaped?
• 06/11/2016: CNN has released a video on The Red Pill: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2017/10/30/divided-we-code-red-pill-cnntech.cnn
• Even when addressing non-TRP they still use jargon heavily

Main interests

• collective creation of an ideology online
• from online echo chambers to actual political power
• skewed reality in echo chambers
• possible physicality of online spaces

Possible Questions of focus

• How is offline politics influenced by the online culture war?
• Can you break an online echo chamber by taking its ideology offline, leaving a physical trace?
• How can you stimulate discussion (break online echo chamber) between sides?
• How are language and image used in online culture to shape ideology?

Research Method

3 steps:

1. I first want to map out the broad scope by taking 3 main groups: Right-wing, Left-wing/feminist, Manosphere.
I will do this by:

• text (short descriptions of ideology, bio's of actors, links between actors, online habitats)
• gathering media:
• creating a map

2. A case study. This case study will preferably be a Dutch branch of the online culture wars influencing Dutch politics, as I believe we need to rapidly grow more aware...

Where is this interest coming from:

• I was researching the online subculture of Vaporwave for a while when the culture got reappropriated and was involved in an online culture war, by the alt-right.

Restrictions:

• ONLINE culture wars
• Focus on 2015>2016>2017
• Focus on main events, actors, media,

Main Sides

Right-wing

Habitat

• 4Chan
• Reddit

1. Alt-Light

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

2. Alt-Right

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

• Steve Bannon

3. Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, White Supremacists

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

• Richard Spencer

Leftwing

Habitat

• Tumblr
• Buzzfeed

#WOKE

Alt-Woke Manifesto: http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/

Manosphere

“ These subcultures, between which there is often animosity, and some important political and philosophical difference, have become collectively referred to by some observers as ‘the Manosphere’. The term has been used to describe everything from progressive men’s issues activists dealing with real neglect of male health, suicide and unequal social services to the nastier corners of the Internet, filled with involuntary celibacy-obsessed, hate-filled, resentment-fueled cultures of quite chilling levels of misogyny.” Angela Nagle. Kill All Normies

1. MRA

Main Ideology: MRA (Men's Rights Activists)
Mostly older men
Reactionary: a reaction to feminism
Main Focus: alimony, perternaty fraud, men's issues regarding family

Key events, media, input:

• The Myth Of Male Power by Warren Farrell, 1993
• “Neil Lyndon’s No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism.”
• “Neil Strauss’s 2005 book The Game.”
• Bang by Roosh V

Main Actors:

• Paul Elam

Main Habitats:

• A Voice For Men

2. MGTOW

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

Main Habitats:

3. Neo Masc

Main Ideology: “ feminism is a major cause of civilizational decline”

Main Actors:

• “Roosh V (aka Daryush Valizadeh) ”, website: Return of Kings

Main Habitats:

• “The Reddit subforum The Red Pill has been central to the online development and resurgence of this anti-feminist politics online.” Angela Nagle. Kill All Normies
• Return of Kings, website by Roosh V

Dictionary

• The Red Pill
• PUA: Pick Up Artist
• Incel: Involuntary Celibate
• “riding the cock carousel”
• Alpha-male and Beta male
• "nice guy"

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Influence of the online culture wars in Dutch politics
Transgression
Transgression in art: http://dissidentreality.com/articles/cinema-transgression-manifesto/
Transgression within the alt-right
Accelerationism