Crumps - came across your work after your appearance on Naama Kates' podcast and liked your takes on inceldom which struck me as a cut above most of what was available at the time. My intuition is that you're right about the incel memeplex reaching a sort of rhetorical/psychological/ideological exhaustion, but I'd still wonder what that book of yours might've looked like (except, in a different, fictionalized analysis - your pieces are always a very entertaining read).
I've attempted to do something like that with my novel about an incel (title: "INCEL"), unpacking the interiority of it to elevate the contradictions, the confirmation bias, etc. - while also trying to gesture in the direction of a way out. Possibly, you may like it's satirical critique of radicalization across a number of interrelated axes. It's free until Friday on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/INCEL-Novel-ARX-Han-ebook/dp/B0CCLTGRMQ/
Crumps - came across your work after your appearance on Naama Kates' podcast and liked your takes on inceldom which struck me as a cut above most of what was available at the time. My intuition is that you're right about the incel memeplex reaching a sort of rhetorical/psychological/ideological exhaustion, but I'd still wonder what that book of yours might've looked like (except, in a different, fictionalized analysis - your pieces are always a very entertaining read).
I've attempted to do something like that with my novel about an incel (title: "INCEL"), unpacking the interiority of it to elevate the contradictions, the confirmation bias, etc. - while also trying to gesture in the direction of a way out. Possibly, you may like it's satirical critique of radicalization across a number of interrelated axes. It's free until Friday on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/INCEL-Novel-ARX-Han-ebook/dp/B0CCLTGRMQ/
so interesting, always