User:Pleun/insp/transgression

Online Culture Wars

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

• The book Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
• The Red Pill Documentary

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

Questions:

• How is offline politics influenced by the online culture war?
• Can you break an online echo chamber by taking its ideology offline, leaving physical trace?

Research Method

3 steps:

1. I first want to map out the broad scope.
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

Main Sides

Right-wing

Habitat

• 4Chan
• Reddit

1. Alt-Light

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

2. Alt-Right

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

• Richard Spencer (Breitbart,

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

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

Leftwing

Habitat

• Tumblr
• Buzzfeed

#WOKE

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

Manosphere

Habitat

• Reddit
• Youtube
• Blog

1. MRA

Main Ideology: MRA (Men's Rights Activists)

Main Actors:

• Paul Elam

Main Habitats:

2. MGTOW

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

Main Habitats:

3. Neo Masc

Main Ideology:

Main Actors:

Main Habitats:

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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