Anon: An Annotated Bibliography

Far-right entryism and resistance in the furry fandom.

Clinical psychologist, Alan Downs discusses his work with self-hating gay men in his practice.

Unfortunately, it is common for people who get involved in groups to be survivors of child abuse.

Discusses self-hatred, gay internet nerds.

New Yorker staff writer, Andrew Marentz chronicles the rise of the alt-right from the perspective of social-media influencers.

Writer and artist, Dale Beran gives an inside account of 4chan’s evolution from meme machine to hate machine.

Derek Black, transgender nonbinary woman, born 1989 in West Palm Beach, U.S., is born into White Nationalism, publicly exits shortly after college.

Man born 1972 in London, Britain enters and exits far-right.

Man born 1967 in East Berlin, East Germany enters and exits neo-Nazism.

Bisexual woman born 1990 in Toronto, Canada enters and exits neo-Nazism.

Man born 1967 in Vancouver, Canada enters and exits neo-Nazism.

Man born 1975 in South Philadelphia, U.S. enters and exits neo-Nazism, struggles with drug use.

Dalit man born 1975 in India enters and exits the far-right organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Man born 1973 in Blue Island, U.S. enters and exits neo-Nazism.

Roland Derek Black, born 1989 in West Palm Beach, U.S. is born into White Nationalism, publicly exits shortly after college.

An existentialist classic tackling themes of alienation and nihilism.

Critically acclaimed TF2 SFM horror movie. Comments on internet culture and bricolage.

An NSFW exploration of trans* maladjustment and bondage. Comments on trans* internet porn.

Comments on trans* internet erotica.

Comments on childhood trauma and adult dysfunction.

Kabi Nagata explores her personal struggle with alienation.

Comments on repression and the cycle of abuse.

Comments on “spiky eggs.”

Tabletop role-playing game based around pseudo-gnostic ideas of manipulating and seeing beyond consensus reality.

Related to metafiction and memes. Can be (mis)interpreted as advocating for a kind of metafictional palingenetic masculinity.

From The Matrix, derives the metaphor of the redpill, meaning an unpleasant truth, popular among internet protest masculinities.

Amanda Avila spoofs transgender imageboard culture.

Surviving Sophist text with Skeptic similarities. Mostly, a series of arguments that two things are the same and then that these things are different.

Bizarre and disturbing proto-fascist novel.

Toxic positivity self-help book. Peale’s religious teachings greatly influenced Donald Trump. Frighteningly callous and terrible advice.

See the Internet Archive link web.archive.org/web/20231210135756/https://dailystormer.in/a-normies-guide-to-the-alt-right.

Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) fan studies outreach project.

Fandom research hub for Anglophones on BL, Yuri and more.

Serial killer fandoms may be comparable to far-right “spree killer fandoms.”

Seminal work in fan studies.

Compares the free labor of Fandom, Open Source Software and Social Media.

English professor, George Landow brings together post-structural literary theory and the web.

I hated this book. However, you need to understand some literary theory to understand memes and shitposting.

Manga critic, Kaoru Nagayama studies the history of erotic manga.

Japanese media critic, Kimi Rito studies the evolution of the semiotics of hentai.

Lucid exploration of the “otoko no ko” subculture, sometimes vulgarly referred to as “traps” on 4chan.

Japanese cultural critic, Hiroki Azuma posits otaku culture as a postmodern genre of media centered around the appreciation of the schema or database of elements of a work rather than the narrative of a work. 4chan is directly related to Japanese image board and otaku culture.

See also for an explainer, Paul Perdijk’s article on “Database Consumption” in Japanese Media and Popular Culture at jmpc-utokyo.com/keyword/database-consumption.

Japanese Lacanian psychiatrist, Saitō Tamaki posits an emerging postmodern archetype of the “phallic girl” central to a large amount of otaku media.

Discusses British Wicca origins and influences. Exhaustive and fascinating but far too uncritical of right-wing currents within Wicca and Wicca’s Occultist influences. Good background for spiritual eco-feminism and TERFism but does not discuss the subject.

Relevant to hypnosis porn.

Ariane Cruz studies black women in kink. 4chan has a strange relationship with raceplay.

PHD candidate, Aster Gilbert explores trans* micropornography, so basically /gif/.

Film studies professor, Linda Williams analyzes hard-core film pornography.

Cameron Awkward-Rich discusses the contradictions between feminism and trans studies.

Andrea L. Chu and Emmet H. Drager criticize the state of trans studies as reductively antinormative, and derivative of gender studies and queer studies. Chu and Drager posit the value of the transsexual precisely in problematicizing antinormative narratives.

Analyzes the rhetoric of madness around school shootings. Internet forums strike me as a kairotic space in the sense Price discusses. Counter-strategic resistance and counter-diagnostic strategies of incoherence and proliferation strike me as relevant to chan culture. The whole rhetoric of facts and logic used in the right is also relevant here.

Melanie Yergeau subverts rhetorical disability tropes. Good, but written in an extremely academic style.

Body image issues overlap with incel and redpiller body issues. More generally, body image issues overlap with the bigorexia of the far-right.

Tijuana activist, Sayek Valencia discusses crime, consumerism, masculinity and capitalism in the context of the global drug trade and the third-world.

American anarchist author, Kristian Williams discusses the origins of North-American policing in slavery.

Dr. Filip Melo Lopes posits incel desire-hatred ambivalence in terms of Beauvoir’s sovereign subject (Beauvoir). Lopes focuses on Elliot Rodger, and addresses incel sadism, but does not address incel masochism.

Essentially describes fascism as a belief in palingenetic masculinity, the rebirth of hegemonic masculinity through war. Relies too much on Mary Daly for my comfort. Similar to Masculinity and New War, (Duriesmith).

Scholar of International Relations, David Duriesmith reexamines “new war” as the adoption of protest masculinities in response to breakdowns in patriarchal bargaining.

Sociologist, Klaus Theweleit psychoanalyses Freikorps pulp fiction.

Uses the book Train Man as a jumping off point for discussing cynicism, irony and romanticism in 2channel and Japanese nationalism.

Ethnographers, Peter Adler and Patricia Adler study internet communities of self-injurers. The profile of protest masculinities may overlap with self-injurers when protest masculinity becomes a form of self-harm.

Particularly, look into chapter 4 “Limitations of the ‘Countering Extremism’ Model” which gathers together a lot of good criticisms of the counter-extremism industry.

Psychologist and sociologist team, Dr. Jillian Peterson and Dr. James Densley provide a life history study of American mass shooters. The Violence Project is a better work than most of its type, but is mostly focused on observing, and disempowering potential shooters.

Psychologist, Bob Altemeyer summarizes his research on the psychology of “right-wing authoritarians” and “social dominants.”

See for access theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book.

Political scientist, Karen Stenner posits an “authoritarian predisposition” underlying contemporary measures of authoritarianism. Unfortunately, The Authoritarian Dynamic comes across as very saneist in parts.

Pushes back against the idea that fascism is rooted in some kind of sexual pathology.

Fantastic book on the dynamics of colonization.

Comes off as unsympathetic but describes a real thing.

Professor of sociology, Kathleen M. Blee studies women in hate groups.