Anon: An Annotated Bibliography

Anon did not have a fun childhood.

Anon may be failing college.

Anon may be autistic.

Far-right entryism and resistance in the furry fandom.

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.”

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.

Women’s rights activist, Laura Bates investigates the emerging network of masculinist internet movements.

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

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

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

I feel like this overlaps with the development of white masculinity, and a lot of thought about post-modernity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Quite flawed study.

Existentialist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir posits the origin of misogyny in the mythmaking of women.

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.

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.

Sociologist, Klaus Theweleit psychoanalyses Freikorps pulp fiction.

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

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

Psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich posits the origin of fascism in libidinal repression.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Bizarre and disturbing proto-fascist novel.

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