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incel theory - jean land

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This is a condensed script of my opening talk for the Incel Theory reading group at Mimbres School, which convened on June 4th, 2025. I attached the reading list at the bottom. There is a delicate but imprecise intersection between incel culture and Alt-Right culture, and I don’t think it’s a reach to think of the history of the past 10 years of Anglophone Internet as a history of how these cultural movements, as a reaction to neoliberalism and postmodern Western culture, captured the political imagination of a generation of young men and got us to where we are at today. Looking back, it’s easy to recognize that the 2007 Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho was an incel; just as Elliot Rodger was an incel. Most people who participated in various sorts of online misogyny were incels, all the way from GamerGate to Andrew Tate. If you’re on the Internet at all, even if you’re not an incel, chances are you’ve learned to think like one. by way of memes and the popularity of these chad/tradwi

incel theory - jean land Incel Theory This is a condensed script of my opening talk for the Incel Theory reading group at Mimbres School , which convened on June 4th, 2025. I attached the reading list at the bottom. There is a delicate but imprecise intersection between incel culture and Alt-Right culture, and I don’t think it’s a reach to think of the history of the past 10 years of Anglophone Internet as a history of how these cultural movements, as a reaction to neoliberalism and postmodern Western culture, captured the political imagination of a generation of young men and got us to where

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