Since February 2023, artist, university lecturer, and internet culture writer Joshua Citarella has been conducting interviews with a wide array of subjects who have formed their politics out of internet subcultures. It would be a crude oversimplification to say their so-called “e-deologies” range far and wide across “the political spectrum,” as the real hallmark of an e-deology is not so much how right or left it is as its tendency to collect respective baroque idiosyncrasies and qualifications. These are not merely Republicans and Democrats, or conservatives and liberals, or even socialists and libertarians. These are self-identified “pan-constitutional monarchists,” “antidemocratic transhumanists”, “anarcho-primitivist electoralists,” “Islamo-nationalists”, “agrarian voluntarists,” “eco-fascists,” and many more seemingly infinite permutations of boutique ideas.
Here are some excerpts from one such interviewee, anonymized by their screen name “PapaCoomer,” a “Third Positionist,” aka “fascist”:
How would you describe your politics or ideology?
Third Position.
How would you describe your politics or ideology?
Third Position.
Who are your biggest influences?
Hans Hermann Hoppe, James Mason, William Luther Pierce, and Mencius Moldbug.
When did you first learn about or start visiting online political communities?
2017.
Citarella interviews Zoomers, which explains why another one of his interviewees, a sixteen-year-old from Texas, can say the jobs of the not-too-distant future will be “guerrilla fighter, neoliberal slave, neoliberal master” with a straight face. This person told Citarella they’ve been visiting online communities since 2016. If they are to be believed, this means they were then nine years old, tops. And if they are to be believed, they have been “politically active” offline as well, though this is not expanded upon. They do not mention whether their mom had to drive them…
Auteur: Amber A’Lee Frost
